REGGAETON star Daddy Yankee holds his own in his big-screen acting debut, “Talento de Barrio.”
He’s Edgar Dinero, a drug dealer in the Puerto Rican slum that he rules with a deadly ferocity. Too bad he’s saddled with a generic script, based loosely on his own life.
You’ve seen it before: Slum kid has hidden talent, gets big break, hooks up with classy woman, becomes superstar.
In this case, the slum kid is Dinero and his untapped talent is musical.
Do I have to tell you that Dinero’s mom worries constantly about her wayward son and that his teenage sister (Angélica Alcaide) is hot, hot, hot – and well on her way to becoming a tramp? Or that the deadly violence is nearly nonstop?
But then the movie’s target audience shouldn’t be bothered by script problems. They’re interested in music and mayhem, not Shakespearean prose.
In Spanish, with English subtitles. Running time: 99 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, drug use, sexuality). At the New Coliseum, others.