Jailbreak (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Jimmy Henderson
	Actors: Jean-Paul Ly, Sisowath Siriwudd, Céline Tran, Dara Phang, Tharoth Sam, Dara Ou, Savin Philipp
	Country: K
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 21.04.2017, Teatro Nuovo, FEFF2017, Khmer/French/English version with English subtitles
Synopsis: A police task force (Phang, Sam, Our) supported by the new trainer Inspector Ly (Ly) brings the leader of Butterfly gangster organisation named Playboy (Philipp) to jail. In exchange of reduced sentence, he intends to reveal the name of his boss. But Madame (Tran) plans to get rid of him and asks one prisoner Bolo (Siriwudd) to kill him in prison. When the task force delivers Playboy in his cell, the prison turns into a mutiny and all want to get out alive.
Review: The movie is the type of movie that do not get good critics. A full action movie with non-stop fights. I felt like in a video game. Introduction scene to present the team, the mission and then it blows up. As in a video game, the weapons are coming out from everywhere, like hidden below a bed. And the prisoners use everything they find as a weapon, wood laths from the bed including visible huge nails, machete, rifles, fusil. As in video games time to time there is a big boss to fight against. And most of the time it is up to Jean-Paul Ly to show us his martial art. As bad boss, there is a huge cannibale, a crazy black guy and Madame for a woman battle. Not in the mud, but still in jail. Also something that sounds all the time strange in the movie. The prison seems to be a labyrinth while it should just be a prison. But this element is again like in a video game. The few scenes that try to give some romantic do not work at all and are not coming often enough to become then funny. The acting is ok. The fights are really good and the closed environment give something like helplessness to the fighters. They cannot flee the fight! It is nice to listen the French accent of Jean-Paul Ly and Céline Tran. And actually it brings a lot in the movie as it opens doors to further interpretation and possibly sequels or re-use of these characters in other situations. And I am pretty sure that Céline Tran would inspire some friends of mine. For the first evening of the FEFF, I liked a lot the introduction music as it sets the atmosphere of action video games and adds motivation to watch manz other Asian movies.

Rating: 5 /10