There are tons of movies made around the world, some great,
some mediocre and some down right terrible. But the fact of the matter is that
most fall into the center category, not quite good but not as bad as some big
budget films out there. Such is the case with this film.
Four backpacking friends land in Bangkok and hit the town.
Between dance joints and bars their funds run a little low so one has a plan to
make back what they've spent: get into a high stakes poker game! All goes well
at first but then they lose what money they have left...as well as money they
don't have. The stereotypical Thailand gang boss tells them he breaks a finger
for every 1,000 batt they owe. But since they owe 1,000,000 he's going to run
out of fingers before he gets paid. He gives them one week to come up with the
funds.
Taking menial jobs here and there, everything from
professional wrestler to male stripper, the group doesn't seem to have a chance
of making the money. That's when one of them comes up with the idea of
kidnapping a wealthy American's daughter and holding her for ransom. The
kidnapping goes fine and of course the young woman is a mouthy whiner that
they're anxious to get rid of but her father keeps telling them that he can't
come up with the funds they want. They negotiate for a smaller sum and head out
to collect.
The best laid plans saying kicks in here. Rather than send
the money the American, a crook if there ever was one, sends out his bodyguards
who bring along a gang that seems trained in martial arts. Good thing our 4
semi-heroes are great fighters. They battle back and forth and eventually
escape.
Along the way the group discovers that the American has no
intentions of paying them anything at all. As a matter of fact he wants the
girl dead. So much for fatherly love. Now instead of holding her ransom they
try to help her along with the bodyguards who have no idea how conniving their
boss really is.
The film has so many loopholes in the plot that to try and
list them would result in a review longer than what I've written so far. The
idea that these idiots come up with is not only far fetched but downright
stupid. But that's not what folks who look at movies like this care about.
They're interested in the fight sequences and honestly there are some great
ones on display here. Where Jackie Chan
and his team brought fast paced frenetic energy to fight sequences in the past,
films being made in Indonesia and Thailand are upping the ante creating some
classic fight scenes and catching them on film.
No, the movie isn't the greatest thing ever made but it's
not the worst either. Anyone interested in this title will do so just to watch
the fight sequences. To rent it for any other reason is to end in
disappointment.
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