Metacritic Film

Boricua's Bond

Starring Frankie Negron, Ramses Ignacio, and Val Lik

MPAA RATING: R for pervasive language, strong sexual content, violence and some drug use

USA Films
Drama
105 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters June 21, 2000

Story about a Latino pop star (Negron) growing up in a Puerto-Rican neighborhood in the Bronx.

WRITTEN BY
Val Lik

DIRECTED BY
Val Lik

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

21 / 100

Critic Reviews

40 TV Guide
If this is even a reasonably accurate account of someone's real life, then we as a culture may be in worse shape than we imagine.
38 New York Post
Like many first films, Boricua's Bond is wildly uneven.
30 Variety
At the most basic level, Boricua's Bond is at war with itself.
30 The New York Times
Suffers from a fatal lack of modulation. It paints a picture of inner-city life as an endless sequence of beatings and shouting matches, and in its glum cartoonishness insults the people whose strivings it means to honor.
25 New York Daily News
If you haven't had enough of the Central Park rampage videos showing human nature at its worst, you could always pay to see Boricua's Bond.
10 Village Voice
Despite its incoherence and inaudible dialogue, this slice-of-life film manages to be simultaneously thuggish and platitudinous.

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