Crazy Cops 191 1/2
Directed: Boonsong Nakphoo
Starring: Danai Samutkochorn, Pairoj Jaisingha,
Buntita Tarnwised
Running Time: 104 minutes
Year: 2003
Cop films don’t get much duller than this.
It was like sitting around a campfire with ten year olds singing “Kumbaya”
and roasting marshmallows. You can only pray it rains and rains hard. An
episode of TJ Hooker would have made me get up and cheer after this. People
who make films as uninteresting, pointless and innocuous as this should
have their own special circle in Hell in which they have to watch each
other’s films for eternity. It wasn’t so much that it was bad - to
be bad you have to attempt to do something and fail miserably – this had
the ambition of a slug on a very hot day. This film has the edge of a melting
stick of butter.
It has a real original premise that you have probably
never seen before - a young cop called Chart (Danai Samutkochorn
– Body Jumper) right out of academy is a by the book energetic little bugger
and he gets partnered with the veteran Sgt. Rueng (Pairoj Jaisingha – sort
of a Thai Ng Man Tat type) who plays loose with the rules and doesn’t ever
seem to be in a hurry. Chart is of course initially offended by the Sgt.’s
apparent dereliction of duty, but eventually realizes that he is a wily
old bird – and they bond. Yippie. May, a young female journalist (Buntita
Tarnwised), rides along with them on their tour and doesn’t do much of
anything. And for some reason that I never figured out, there is a subplot
in which a rural son (the actor who played Phaen's friend in Monrak Transistor)
is asked by his dying father to go to Bangkok to find his long lost half
brother – and he does – but what it has to do with the main story escaped
me. This is a complete waste of time for anyone with a pulse in a non-vegetative
state.
My rating for this film: 2.5