Elephant White product reviews

i didn't think too much of kevin bacons roll in this movie as he seemed to be a bit of a limp noodle for a gun-running drug-smuggling american ex-special agent. but the performance by djimon hounsou was pretty amazing. on an utterly trivial side note i had to laugh that the front cover shows djimon with a 'landing strip' chinbeard but his face is utterly hairless throughout the entire movie, so no idea why that stock photo was used. the movie is set in Thailand and revolves around the child prostitution economy that seems to be pretty common over there if hollywood and interpol reports are to be trusted. brought in to rescue the missing daughter of some thai chap is soon becomes clear that this job is more than it first appears and eventually becomes something utterly different, with a nice little twist thrown in about 2/3rds of the way through that starts to make all the weird stuff make a lot more sense. with the Thai culture strongly believing in the spirits of the dead being able to walk the earth, it was no surprise to have a little supernatural element thrown in and it really fit in well without the cheese the american market would have demanded or the horror aspect we link to ghosts haunting the world. this movie was quite an interesting one but may prove to be an acquired taste. regardless of that it was indeed a great English-language debut from Prachua Pinkaew especially since this movie doesn't exactly paint Thailand - his home - in a glowing light.