The reviews are in and it’s clear the Hector Lavoe biopic, “El Cantante,” starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, is not going to win any Oscars. It could, however, get into the Guinness Book Of World Records for being the world’s longest music video. At least according to New York Times film critic A.O. Scott who says the story:

…develops through an exhausting, confusing series of montages punctuated by short, crude moments of ham-fisted melodrama. [The director’s] generosity with [the] musical moments compensates both for Mr. Anthony’s shortcomings and for the frenetic incoherence of his own storytelling […] It may be best to approach “El Cantante” less as a movie than as a two-hour promotional video for a must-have soundtrack album.

In that case, just save yourself ten bucks and watch their other music video instead about a self-sabotaging man with AIDS and the woman who loves him:

When the Salsa Throbs, a Singer’s Soul Is Revealed [New York Times]
“El Cantante” coverage on Guanabee