Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty

2014 • 94 minutes
4.3
307 reviews
63%
Tomatometer
Eligible
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About this movie

From the producer of SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN and MAN ON WIRE, follow two documentary filmmakers on their manhunt to find Mexico’s most notorious and wanted drug lord, Shorty: a latter-day Robin Hood to some, and Public Enemy No. 1 to others.

Ratings and reviews

4.3
307 reviews
Josh Hubbard
March 6, 2015
This is a well made documentary. The story is interesting and the storytellers engage you from the beginning. This film gives you a look inside a world rarely seen with unprecedented access to the filmmakers. Having a British man and a Peruvian man as the two main filmmakers but deciding to have the Peruvian narrate is a mistake in my opinion. His English is decent but it's obviously not his mother tongue. I think having the Englishman narrate in a film presented in English would have just been commonsense.
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Eric Cunningham
January 26, 2015
It's not Searching for Sugarman or Man on Wire. It is an interesting story but it doesn't pay off in the end.
Pastor CB
February 22, 2016
Pulled on my interest given my early years knowledge of the Mafia.