Category: Thai film

  • Bangkok Revenge (2011, Jean-Marc Minéo)

    About the only inventive thing in Bangkok Revenge–and I doubt writer-director Minéo uses it for this reason–is lead Jon Foo being unable to experience emotion. It means Foo doesn’t have to give a particularly good performance. He just has to deliver his lines and he does. He’s not a bad guy, of course, quite the…

  • The Samurai of Ayothaya (2010, Nopporn Watin)

    If you happened across The Samurai of Ayothaya and missed the terrible opening expository narration, you might think you found an awesome martial arts movie about a bunch of Thai Freddie Mercury impersonators in a Battle Royale situation. Sadly, you did not. You instead found a terrible mix of a military thriller and a martial…