User Reviews

"Shiro's Story" is a 10-minute live action film from 2018, so a pretty new release and this one scored several millions of views on Youtube in the last couple months, so certainly a big success. Director here is Rapman and his work here runs for 10 minutes approximately and tells us the story of a young African-British/African-English man (yeah the term sounds strange I agree, but it is the equivalent to African American I assume) struggling with his family, crime and life in general. You don't see British hip hop music as often as you see American, that much is safe, so the English accent is always something that sounds a bit off although I have heard and liked some stuff I have heard in the past like The Streets,, but this one we have here is entirely different for sure, much closer to American hip hop I'd say. I am not too impressed, neither by what I hear nor by what I see in terms of acting and story-telling. That's why as a whole I give this film a thumbs-down and even if it is a music video I still felt that the video aspect and film was dominant here and not the music side, something you really don't expect too often in music videos. And while it is not a failure, I was not entertained by any aspect and component from this one as much as I hoped I would be. Skip the watch here.