Movie Review "Jailbreak" - made in Cambodia

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Moe wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 11:41 pm It wasn't exactly ground breaking and it's definitely not going to win any awards.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5741304/awards

https://www.camsocial.news/jailbreak-cl ... ival-2017/
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It's on piratebay as well..
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Jun 03, 2018 12:38 am
Moe wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 11:41 pm It wasn't exactly ground breaking and it's definitely not going to win any awards.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5741304/awards

https://www.camsocial.news/jailbreak-cl ... ival-2017/
Hah, I stand corrected.
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just watched it, its entertaining enough, felt like it needed some more plot or story line/character building instead of 90% fight scenes though lol
Tharoth Sam playerd her part well, oh did anyone spot No Jokes trans ex was one of the Butterfly Gang girls?
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Good movie, except they overdid the fighting scenes, way too much fighting without focusing on character background.
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Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 1:28 am oh did anyone spot No Jokes trans ex was one of the Butterfly Gang girls?
Wow i didn't see that!
is it for real?
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I thought is stunk. Couldn't watch all it till th end. Horrible acting. Lousy plot line.
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JohnLeonard wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 2:03 am
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 1:28 am oh did anyone spot No Jokes trans ex was one of the Butterfly Gang girls?
Wow i didn't see that!
is it for real?
yeah shes in a few scenes
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theres loads of people i recognised in the movie, even Ponleu and Socheat made an appearance
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they are the singers from Khmeng Khmer who sang the well known Bom Phum song
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It's definitely a step up for Cambodia but falls short in many places

The subtitles. Like seriously, wtf? They seriously screwed these up with parts where English was spoken but not matching the subtitles, and lots of the Khmer to subtitles being wrong too (according to my better half). Then you have Tharoth Sam who cannot speak English in the first half of the film, suddenly managing to find time to learn some half way through!

The plot itself was pretty weak too, and concentrated too much on fight scenes imo.

But overall, entertaining enough, and will hopefully see the next few films coming out of Cambodia building on what Jailbreak has achieved. 2.5 stars out of 5.

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I liked it how the cast all speaks different languages, it's representative of cambodian society. The fighting scene were cool enough though, did I expect anything else ? Nope, so I enjoyed the movie 8-)

I'm fan of Celine Tran (for some obvious reason :oops: ) but why did they make her speak Khmer ??? :lol:

And yes, the english subtitle is quite off what the characters are saying.
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