Deep

Thai sci-fi thriller had exciting concepts about sleep deprivation. Obviously five directors still couldn't get things right and went downhill with several plot holes and poor choices. Four young cast also forced unnecessary teen problems without reasonable causes.

It is a very simple science fiction which is not so diificult to understand. But it keep your thrill. Predictable but no boring at all. I found the movie is interesting and director tries to build the story out of box.

I think the effort should deserve more ratings than which i see here.

I saw this on Netflix.

Ive not seen that many Thai films before, i can think of 2, Shutter and Ong Bak. I've been to Thailand once on holiday so I'm no expert on Thai culture.

The premise of the film is decent.

Its a drug trial based on sleep deprivation, 4 teens from the same College sign up with the lure of large sums of money, ( for a young Thai person ).

The opportunity to explore these ideas were however wasted. It soon became a teen drama full of stereotypes and movie tropes.

The film was well shot but the acting wasn't great with the exception of the female lead who had a decent presence. I watched in Thai original and English subtitles so I can imagine some of the translations were culturally altered.

The opening 30 mins were interesting but when I was expecting things to go deeper the middle section became a teen drama.

The ending is where it fell apart with multiple plot holes ' the twist ' and contrived story telling.

Its meandering entertainment at best, I think even many Teens would find a lot of this a bit too fluffy and childish.

Ive marked it slightly higher for its production values and good female lead but its probably more like a 5.

They would have got away with it if it wasn't for them pesky kids !!!

Im not saying this is a good movie. As said by many others reviewers, it's a great idea, but poorly executed.

But...

If you take a look at the profiles of the main cast and crew, will notice this is the first to third job of many of then in a non mainstream low budget production, mostly funded by a phone service company.

Little of the movie problems are in the acting and direction. The big chunk of it rest in the screenplay. Have six people writing one single script will almost always end in a convoluted story line. They will add and cut stuff, they will argue and disagree and in the end will be so focused on details and forget the big picture. Even so, one final review from an outside and critical eye would have made wonders to the movie.

I liked most of it. Skipped a lot of soap opera drama parts. Lots of potential for a western remake.

Honestly, I love Thai Movie, cause they always have many interesting original ideas, including Deep. The movie was good in the first few minutes but the rest is terrible. The characters development is so weak and that makes Deep going down with the speechless ending.

Anyhow, I won't waste your time if you want to find something to entertain on a boring night.