≡ Category: Art, Comedy, Drama, Not Worth Your Time, Thailand | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Thailand
Genre: Comedy/ Drama/ Art
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Year: 1999
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
From the very first frames of Invisible Waves, director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang exhibits an extraordinarily strong authorial presence. The compositions are architectural in their discipline. The color palette is gray and green, with the occasional splash of color, usually a dull red. Ratanaruang persists in […]
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Country: Thailand
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Year: 1999
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
6ixtynin9 catches you by surprise. When Tum (Lalita Panyopas) gets downsized from a financial services firm, you expect a gently comedic drama about spiritual values. But for most of the running time of the picture, writer/director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang has something more scabrous in mind.
While Tum […]
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Country: Thailand
Genre: Horror
Director: Danny Pang/ Oxide Pang
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
On the basis of The Eye 2, you would never know that the Pang Brothers ever shot a film in their lives, much less had a reputation as autuers.
The problems start with the script, although the basic situation has promise.
Let me set the scene. […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country, Thailand | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Thailand
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Year: 2005
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I first watched The Protector AKA Tom Yum Goong in the theater, I was irritated, in spite of the awesome martial arts sequences. It was obvious that Miramax had cut the living crap out of the movie. It barely made any sense. As […]
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Country: Thailand
Genre: Action/Martial Arts
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Chocolate is a very simple movie. It quickly establishes a situation which will stoke the viewer’s righteous rage, and then proceeds to the main business of the film — an endless variety of excellent fight choreography and stunts, which only get better and more […]
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Country: Thailand
Genre: Action/Martial Arts
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Year: 2003
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
By the early 2000s, the amazing martial arts action and stunt work of the Golden Age of Hong Kong (1985-1995) was only a memory. The Hong Kong film industry had gotten civilized. Movie producers no longer used up acres of glass every time they […]
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Country: Thailand
Genre: Action
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Year: 2000
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Into every life a little rain must fall. In my case, that maxim is illustrated by movies like Tears Of The Black Tiger.
On the face of it, Tears Of The Black Tiger should have been quite entertaining. Imagine this: a Thai film using Western cowboy visual […]
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Country: Thailand
Genre: Horror
Director: Chukiat Sakveerakul
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The premise of 13: Game of Death is so rich it practically writes itself.
Let’s say we have a guy, Pusit (Krissada Terrence) who is deep in debt and has just lost his job and girlfriend. He gets a call on his cell that he’s been selected […]
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Country: Thailand
Genre: Action/Martial Arts
Director: Panna Rittikrai
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I saw the trailer for Born To Fight, my reaction was “Woo-hoo!” That will probably be your reaction too, at least if you have any affection for the crazy stunts that used to be routine in Hong Kong action films during the Golden Age […]
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Country: Thailand
Genre: Action/Martial Arts/Comedy
Director: Chalerm Wongpim
Year: 2006
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
After Ong Bak and The Protector, both featuring Tona Jaa doing mindblowing stunts and Thai kickboxing based fight scenes, I figured that Thailand was going to be the best new source of martial arts movies.
So, it was with some eagerness that I looked forward […]
