Zero Tolerance

When I stumbled upon this 2015 movie titled "Zero Tolerance", from writer and director Wych Kaosayananda, I had never even heard about it. But the fact that it had Scott Adkins on the cast list definitely helped sweeten the deal.

"Zero Tolerance", while certainly being a watchable movie, ultimately just turned out to be a bland and generic action thriller, without much of neither action nor thrills. So writer Wych Kaosayananda didn't exactly impress me with this 2015 movie.

The only familiar faces on the screen, for me at least, were actors Scott Adkins and Gary Daniels. I saw Kane Kosugi's name on the cast list, and assume he is related to Sho Kosugi, but I am not familiar with his acting performances or career. The acting performances in "Zero Tolerance" were fair.

Watchable, sure, but hardly a noteworthy action thriller. Nor is it a movie that will ever grace my screen a second time. And definitely not among the top of movies from Scott Adkins, whom was hardly in the movie at all.

My rating of writer and director Wych Kaosayananda's 2015 movie "Zero Tolerance" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.

Horrible movie! Why would anyone make a movie like that?!! why did they even bother wasting there money on its production?!! Why would this movie be in English? its all about Thai people they referred to them speaking only English to the fact that they were spy's in the US Army for 10 years?!!

There was no connection between the scenes awful conversations and scenario. Really don't understand how it got 7.5 rating when I got the tickets.

The camera angles were poor and the scenes chosen in the movie were also very poor,too many close shots on the face of the actors which had no expression on them, time wasting experience, the movie was pointless and they tried to fill the time line of the movie with any junk so they can have a full movie time. during the action and fight scenes you could not understand what exactly was going on. the sound effects were also poor, the gun shots sounded like something falling on a pillow not a gun shoot at all

The movie might be easy to spot and you probably won't be too surprised by the ending. But it's still nicely made, if you don't expect a martial arts romp that is. It seems that some people thought, that with all the names attached this would be a lot of hand-to-hand action and fighting. And while there is a certain amount of action, it's mostly "gunplay"/-fighting that is going on.

A fair warning (or whatever you want to call it): there is a lot of nudity in this movie, though it's almost entirely in the first 2-3 minutes. After that we see Mr. Adkins, but he's not the lead in this, so don't get confused by that either. It's a man on a mission, a different take on ... Taken.

Ok first off, the link to Denzel's 2 Guns is non existent.

Second despite the cover, Adkins is in this film for about 15 minutes.

Without the false pretenses caused by the marketing department, this movie could be a 4 or even a 5. It's ok, not great, but ok. The 2 actual leads are watchable. BUT because you come into this expecting something else it never really gets a chance. You end up feeling robbed!

2 GUNS: ZERO TOLERANCE was originally by all accounts a no-star Thai thriller called ANGELS which did very badly on release. So some money-savvy producers decided to re-edit the movie by bringing in a number of foreign martial artists and re-releasing the film as an action thriller. The problem is, the foreigners in the movie are little more than cameo actors and there's a dearth of action in the film which renders it sleep-inducing to all but the most faithful of movie fans.

The main thrust of the plot is a murder mystery featuring the impassive Vietnamese actor Dustin Nguyen. Somebody murdered his daughter and he wants to find out who, so he goes on a rampage of revenge. Or at least that's what they want you to think. Instead, like most Thai films, this is indifferently acted and poorly shot, lacking verve and vitality in every scene, and the (few) brief fights are so poorly handled as to be worthless. Mostly it's all talk, and poorly spoken English, and dialogue that makes little sense.

Poor old Scott Adkins is given prominent billing on the cover but barely appears in the film - he has about five minutes of screen time in a generic role. Japanese star Kane Kosugi is on screen even less. Gary Daniels is here too, but it feels like all of his scenes were shot in a single day because they don't amount to much. ZERO TOLERANCE is one of the most insipid Thai films I've watched, and a good example of that film's lack of current talent when it comes to basic film-making principles.