In Bangkok, the assassin Curtie Church (<a href=">Djimon Hounsou) is hired by a businessman to kill six men. Job done, the employer proposes another contract to Curtie to kill the lord of the traffickers that had addicted, prostituted and murdered his daughter. Curtie seeks out the Englishman Jimmy that is an arm dealer and he rents heavy weapons. Then Curtie provokes a war between gangs to eliminate the greatest number of white slave traders. Meanwhile, the young prostitute Mae meets Church and helps him to release other girls. When Mae vanishes, Curtie seeks her out and finds the truth about Mae. An assassin is hired by a businessman to avenge the murder of his daughter by white slave traders in Thailand. Can you save someone by using a gun? When mercenary Curtie Church (Hounsou) is hired to take out the head of a human trafficking ring he finds himself not sure who's side he is on. When a girl named Meg finds him, he has another reason to stop the ring. This is a great action movie. Guy hires guy to kill someone, guy gets guns, starts killing…for an hour and a half. If you like movies with intricate plot lines and in-depth character development, this is not it. If you like non stop action, guns and fighting, this is the movie for you. The acting is actually pretty good, led by Djimon Hounsou and Kevin Bacon, but the action is what drives the movie. Very few action movies have a twist at the end that makes you want to re-watch right away to see if you can catch the moments that lead up to the twist, this is one of them. I'd be surprised if anyone can predict the twist to this. Very entertaining action movie that is worth watching. I give it a B+.<br/><br/>Would I watch again? - Yes I would to see if I can catch the twist moments I missed.<br/><br/>*Also try - Out Of Reach & Takedown So Djimon Hounsou, of Blood Diamond fame, wants to take the lead as both producer and lead actor in film designed to raise awareness about human trafficking in southeast Asia? Unfortunately, this movie misses its mark on several levels. First, it is never made clear until the end of the movie when the closing credits are rolling that we are talking about human trafficking rather than prostitution. Only a couple references to enslavement by drug addiction are given, but what is being fought against is still murky at best. In addition, the closing credits describe "children" as those being trafficked, but none of the victimized girls in this movie looked like children to me. They all looked like young adults, probably late teens to early twenties in age. The producers could have cast younger actresses if they wanted to send a clear message about "children." <br/><br/>Second, why would Kevin Bacon lend his name and reputation to this amateurish movie? He plays a self described Brit, but until that declaration, I assumed by his accent that he was playing an Aussie.<br/><br/>The only thing this movie got right was how the imaginary girl named Mae described Buddhist culture. Reincarnation is a big part of that culture, and her message of how and why people do things in their current life can affect what happens to them later was accurate. This concept explains something I saw firsthand in Thailand, which is that feral dogs are beaten into submission, but well cared for afterward.<br/><br/>All of those points aside, the script is weak, the characters are one dimensional, and this movie isn't worthy of its desire to be taken seriously as a morality tale.
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