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Movie from Thailand about a killer doing his job... i.e. killing ! By mixing flashbacks, an expected love story, a tragic end, and a lot of killing the director managed to create a very boring and unsurprising movie. Add to that some non-sense some slow motions - Asiatic directors simply love it - and you have a less than second rate violent movie.

I guess the biggest challenge that the director succeeded in overcoming was in making the killings last for almost 2 hours. If this is the type of movie that Asia enjoys then it is rather sad, depressing, gloom and boring.

I have just read the review of another IMDB member and did not find this movie well directed at all nor did I learn anything about Thailand. Did he really watch the same movie ? This one was classified 18 (i.e. for adults only) and does not contain an ounce of information on what Thailand is really like (unless of course Thailand is a country full of murderers and assassins). If Thailand is like in the movie then corpses must pile up in the toilets !

Violence to the extreme is not sufficient to make a decent movie, and this one definitively lack of all the ingredients to make it even watchable. My advise: stay home and read a book.

Rate race has everything to be a good movie: great actors and a not too bad story. Unfortunately it does not succeed in making us laugh. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of interesting things but it never really takes off and all the humour is minus 10. Probably the most original parts of the movie are the one about nazi and heart transplant (they make you smile but nothing more). Besides that it is not funny... at all ! It becomes such a bore that one's only hope was for it to end ASAP.

Making a movie is difficult. Making a funny movie is even more difficult. Neither the actors nor the director succeeded. I will not be surprised if it ends on the bottom shelf of your video store. But I'll be extremely surprised if anybody picks it up.

Don't waste a Euro on this trash.

Very British, a mix of Agatha Christie and British humour directed by a brilliant director. The British countryside is well showed as it really is; i.e. green, empty and wet. In another word: miserable. Hopefully most of the movie is set within a large manor with all the characters staying warm by sitting next to the fire place. Indeed, don't expect car chase nor fancy action scenes. It is more a movie of the mind rather than of the 'streets'. It may not be attractive to the average British spectator - unless this one is over 50 or has passed the age to vandalise whatever is nearest to his seat (which nowadays may bring him around 50 anyway). Indeed, this very old-fashioned British style movie is set in a time when the UK had still some colonies, at a time when British were hypocrites and had lot of pride. Unfortunately, it does not reflect today's situation except in the hypocrisy and pride. Maybe it is nice to have this movie and to remind British spectators that they live in a small country that has no colony left and that is not an empire anymore. Welcome back to earth ! This small thing out of the way the movie is watchable and almost enjoyable. With characters each having a secret to hide, and each secret being revealed up to the last minute. Definitely a must see for a nice evening.