Just to be sure no one’s forgotten about our good friend Guy Ritchie, Universal has re-released Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels under the guise of an Unrated Director’s Cut special edition DVD.
UK director Shane Meadows breaks out the gas mask and manages to put together a revenge film with some great confrontational moments even as it struggles to overcome a plot that strains credibility.
The Maid has a number of effective horror elements including a cogent, somewhat disturbing plot set against a psuedo-religious foreign backdrop (lending it a sort of Serpent And The Rainbow vibe). Unfortunately, it lacks the bite and necessary cohesiveness to make it all stick convincingly.
Out of the morass that is Thailand’s film industry comes the 2001 street crime love story One Take Only, directed by Oxide Pang (one half of the Pang brothers), released in an attempt to cash in on the renown the pair have built up since 2002’s The Eye.
Out of the morass that is Thailand’s film industry comes the 2001 street crime love story One Take Only, directed by Oxide Pang (one half of the Pang brothers), released in an attempt to cash in on the renown the pair have built up since 2002’s The Eye.