11-29-2013, 11:43 AM
This film is unforgivable. 
It's Thai schlock trying to be artsy and existential. Ryan Gosling in the lead but Keanu would have been better. Lots of slow brooding scenes with a character in center frame of a background with outrageous lighting/wallpaper/color scheme. Lots of harsh neon lights, tropical paint schemes, the sleezey side of Bangkok. There are some red herring hallucinatory scenes and a lot of it takes place in a brothel, but there's very little nudity. It tries to be foreboding and disturbing ala David Lynch with its color use, malevolent electronic music and stoic figures, but just winds up being boring. There's way too much kareoke...way to much. Way, way too much. There's a bad cop who pulls a krabi (Thai sword) from his butt with a dramatic 'shing!' sound and does some serious ultravi hacking, and one slightly amusing Muay Thai fight, but not worth sitting through this.
It's Thai schlock trying to be artsy and existential. Ryan Gosling in the lead but Keanu would have been better. Lots of slow brooding scenes with a character in center frame of a background with outrageous lighting/wallpaper/color scheme. Lots of harsh neon lights, tropical paint schemes, the sleezey side of Bangkok. There are some red herring hallucinatory scenes and a lot of it takes place in a brothel, but there's very little nudity. It tries to be foreboding and disturbing ala David Lynch with its color use, malevolent electronic music and stoic figures, but just winds up being boring. There's way too much kareoke...way to much. Way, way too much. There's a bad cop who pulls a krabi (Thai sword) from his butt with a dramatic 'shing!' sound and does some serious ultravi hacking, and one slightly amusing Muay Thai fight, but not worth sitting through this.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse