Jailbreak

Follow up the successful of The Raid in 2011 that make action lover around the world acknowledge Indonesia in 2017 Cambodia make their first break out mainstream action movie Jailbreak with their own martial arts and many new kick-ass faces especially Jean-Paul Ly and Celine Tran.With little to no characters development the movie focus purely on the bone breaking action with wide camera shot from start to finish and when you thought it all over it tease you with a sequel that I very looking forward to

This is a poor man's Raid in a way but that's not bad. If you're expecting plot twists and character development and decent acting and writing you're watching the wrong film. If you're expecting bone crunching action in the same way as Ong-Bak or Raid or similar films then you're in for a treat.

This film introduces the Cambodian martial art of bokator and it's very good in all action aspects. Surely the plot and dialogue leave a lot to be desired but the action is phenomenal for what seems to be a really low budget film. The choreography is exceptional and although the realism in terms of much people are being beaten up and stabbed and so forth and how quickly they get is not proportional I didn't find it bad.

In many ways this seems like a demo tape going to a producer saying, hey this is what we can do with pennies. Give us a bigger budget and we'll produce something even more awesome. And I sure hope so!

ps. I was impressed by Katsumi's martial arts prowess, you go girl!

Some action scenes might be just okay, but these folks trying to make it into a something movie like Ong Bak. Bad actors and such stupid stupid script too. Very unoriginal, poor poor storyline with such unbelievable and unrealistic scenes. Sometimes I really don't know why I tortured myself watching theses 'movies'. I mean, getting beautiful locals, dressing them up in skin-tight leather pants, making them look tough? Come on!!!! Another waste of time.

I wasn't sure what to expect since it's the first movie from Cambodia that I watched and I am quite pleased with the experience. The photography and general production are excelent and I'm not kidding. Even the main cast acted quite well and really good at martial arts performance. I believe that use of a music score could improve a lot the experience. The story works fine just it didn't focused in a clear B-class development and something more serious in action. However, totally recommended to enjoy an entertained martial arts movie.

Just saw this at a film festival! With the brutality and technicality of the fights in the "The Raid" movies with some inventive camera work and AMAZING choreographies, this movie hits hard! Is this the awakening of the Cambodian movie industry? I sure hope so because this movie nailed it! It's not a perfect movie by any means, there are some weak elements to it but I have to give it a 9 here, a 8 just doesn't do it justice! Seek it out, check it out when it gets a wider release!