If you knew where a bag worth $2 million was buried, would you go looking for it? That's the moral dilemma that the new Netflix documentary, The Legend of Cocaine Island, throws at you, while it tells the story of the one man who actually did.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 10, 2019

Offbeat docu has lots of drug talk, profanity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2019

The Legend of Cocaine Island has the elements of an insightful documentary, but a strong finished product remains out of reach.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 2, 2019

To put it simply, Cocaine Island is blisteringly hilarious.

| Apr 2, 2019

The details get repetitive, the turnabout you can see a mile away...

| Apr 1, 2019

This laughable yet laugh-inducing documentary has probably helped save him from the financial ruin that he was trying to escape with his cocaine adventure. Maybe he wasn't so stupid after all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2019

It's a fun 90 minutes. Rodney's trip to the island might not have gone as planned, but after all, it wasn't a total waste.

| Apr 1, 2019

The Legend Of Cocaine Island is hilarious and does a fine job of laying out the twists and turns in Rodney Hyden's amazing story.

| Apr 1, 2019

Director Theo Love ratchets up the storytelling by creating a hybrid type of exaggerated fairytale with meta-style re-enactments. Call this one Narcos for Dummies.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 29, 2019

The Closest We've Gotten to Florida Man: The Movie

| Mar 29, 2019

What's fascinating enough on paper is far more outrageous in the documentary...sorry, Hollywood, no need for a remake of this.

| Mar 29, 2019

Kind of like its subject, one wishes the film about him made a few smarter decisions.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2019

Love is not judgmental about Hyden, and lets him be his sunny, deluded self - down to a willful obliviousness about the realities of drug trafficking and use.

| Mar 29, 2019

The Legend of Cocaine Island is a riot. There are no genuine characters. Everyone is pretending, and everyone is making it up as they go along.

| Mar 29, 2019

Love presents a wildly entertaining, stranger-than-fiction doc that contains plenty of fascinating twists and turns along the way.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 28, 2019

The film introduces elements of an iconic post-recession American story... but that story gets muddled by an array of distracting or, at best, divisive editing choices.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2019

There's no moralizing to be found in White Tide, as director Love revels in Rodney's misbehavior with unbridled, amused relish.

| Mar 26, 2019

If White Tide feels finessed, in other words, well, that's because it is to an extent. But it's also real, as told from the mouths of the people whose experiences provide its bedrock.

| Original Score: B | May 9, 2018