This is basically a shlocky crime film so don't expect anything else. However, the setting and the characters' backgrounds spice things up a bit and there are some decent twists.
The prologue sets up a clash between petty French criminals and Thai society, polarised as it is between permissive appearances and conservative elites. Despite having pulled off a bank robbery many years ago, the gangsters are basically losers. They are shown to be in over their heads, having lost most of the money and getting pumped for whatever is left by the local Thai authorities - who despise them through both social and racial animus (the gangsters being mostly Arab- and African-French).
When the brother of one of the criminals arrives looking for his share after spending 15 years in jail, their fragile balance quickly falls apart and violence erupts within their group, with other local gangsters and with their Thai handlers. Loyalties shift rapidly as the underlying conflicts come to the fore. Who will make it out alive?
The prologue sets up a clash between petty French criminals and Thai society, polarised as it is between permissive appearances and conservative elites. Despite having pulled off a bank robbery many years ago, the gangsters are basically losers. They are shown to be in over their heads, having lost most of the money and getting pumped for whatever is left by the local Thai authorities - who despise them through both social and racial animus (the gangsters being mostly Arab- and African-French).
When the brother of one of the criminals arrives looking for his share after spending 15 years in jail, their fragile balance quickly falls apart and violence erupts within their group, with other local gangsters and with their Thai handlers. Loyalties shift rapidly as the underlying conflicts come to the fore. Who will make it out alive?