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