White Boy Rick, by Andy Weiss, Logan and Noah Miller - 8 out of 10

White Boy Rick, by Andy Weiss, Logan and Noah Miller
8 out of 10


The film about teenager Richard Wershe Jr. and his cooperation with the FBI is not a bad feature.

Regrettably, it is neither a thrilling one.
As testimony, you can check the Metascore of only 59 and the associated, less than enthusiastic series of critical reviews.

From the start, we see that Rick and his father, Richard Wershe Sr. aka Matthew McConaughey, live with many guns in their home and the parent knows a lot about them.
He negotiates the price of two machine guns that were made in Egypt, even though the seller claimed they are from Russi.

Richard Sr. sells these weapons and even worse, he makes accessories, silencers for them and thus becomes the focus a FBI investigation.
When two agents talk to him and invite him to cooperate or face ten years in jail, the junior is asked about the photos shown to his father.

White Boy Rick states that two of the African American men in the pictures are dead,but he volunteers no more information apart from that.
Nevertheless, the two agents bring in a third law enforcement officer, Detective Jackson, whose manner is more aggressive and surely unorthodox and most likely illegal.

Nonetheless, his activity is very dangerous, for he is a narcotics officer and deals with hardened criminals that kill people without any qualms.
This policeman asks White Boy Rick to take drugs and sell them so that he could infiltrate the drugs dealers networks perfectly.

In other words, we have seen this type of story before.
Donnie Brasco comes to mind, with the famous quote:

'Forget about it!'

The difference is that this is a teenager, who was only fourteen I guess when he has started working for the FBI, which seems like a flagrant abuse of his rights.

As for what good has this brought him?
Well, let's not give over the last lines on the screen that tell the audience what happened to all the real characters- for the film is inspired by real life events.


Let's just say that poor
White Boy hasn't been rewarded much for his cooperation.