ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

singh_abhi It is difficult to fathom why a star actor like Ryan Gosling would act in a low budget, Thailand based B grade movie like this one...But after watching the movie for a few minutes one gets sucked into the underbelly of a Tourist hub like Bangkok..Special mention to the performance of the lady playing Ryan's mother...Class act..

tfminfl So it's 2001 meets Kickboxer... Yea that's about right. Ryan Gosling plays Julian, a drug smuggler living in Bangkok, along with his bro, Billy. And well, Billy is a major douche bag and is caught red handed killing a 16 year old prostitute, and the cops arrive, but apparently they do things differently over there, or the cop in charge, Chang, is a psycho... He brings the murder victims father to the scene, and introduces him to the murderer, Billy, then the father introduces a baseball bat to Billy's skull, sweet revenge right? Well Chang doesn't quite see it that way, in his eyes, the victims father played a large role in her murder, he allowed his own daughter to prostitute herself to help him pay the bills, don't worry, he doesn't kill the poor guy, just takes an arm...the killing part, thats left up to Julian, when mommy comes to town. Kristin Scott Thomas plays wicked mean mom Crystal, who may or may not have had Julian kill his own father. However Julian shows some heart and understands the murder victims father point of view, show some mercy and lets him live. Mommy Dearest is pissed!! She puts a hit out on Chang and quickly realizes he is merciless, and one hell of a Karaoke singer!! The movie is a bit slow going, but its just so darn pretty to look at!! Cool flick tho, worth a watch!!

brian-doucette Really suspenseful. The lack of dialogue was not an issue for me as the imagery and cinematography more than adequately make up for it.

Smoreni Zmaj If you are a sincere fan of slow, but extremely slow movies, play this movie on x2 speed and you may somehow hold on to the end. I have to praise myself, I fell asleep only after more than an hour. I usually evaluate the general impression that movie has left on me, but sometimes, as in this case, this is impossible because my impressions are very divided. It's done in similar style as Neon Demon, but in my opinion it's a bit better. Movie is visually fascinating and deserves 9/10, but the story and pace are terribly boring and I hardly made myself watch it to the end, which is on my scale 2/10. As it's better than Neon Demon, which I rated 3/10, I will draw the average from 2 and 9, and rate it5,5/10