Elephant White (2011) [Blu-ray]
Action | Crime | Thriller

Tagline: Set your sights on revenge.

Mercenary Curtie Church (Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond) is hired to take out a notorious Thai sex-trafficking gang by a father whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered by the gang. With the help of a ruthless weapons dealer (Kevin Bacon, Mystic River), Church finds the men he is hired to kill. But what starts as a paying job turns into an outright war between two rival gangs, and Church finds himself caught between the corrupt world that surrounds him and the truth behind the man who hired him.

User Comment: canike07 from United States, 2 March 2011 • I had the chance to see this movie and all I can say is that it was 90 minutes of my life that I wont get back.I had been looking forward to this, being that it was the English language debut of the guy (whose name is to long to spell out) who brought us ong bak & the protector. Dijamon Honsou was miscast, Kevin bacon did it for the paycheck and the movie as a whole just really didn't make sense and was boring. Bad direction, Weak plot, bad acting (Kevin Bacon's accent=horrible)The action scenes tried hard to look cool and stylish but just fail. To sum things up, I can see why this movie is headed straight to DVD & Blu-ray!

Summary: Waste of time!

User Comment: Julian0922 from United States, 9 May 2011 • Although it a common action/thriller movie with lots of shootings its the actual theme of the movie that makes it worth watching. Child prostitution! A theme that is very very rarely covered and yet makes, according to the end of the movie billions of dollars each year.

Taken is the only movie I can remember that also had this theme. Elephant White is not as good as Taken, its missing some elements, but the story goes a bit deeper. Bacon plays Bacon, as usual, just his English accent its kinda funny.

Altogether, like I said, worth watching, for those who like action movies and for those who won't be shocked or disturbed to see how harsh real life really can be and obviously is, for some children!

Summary: The theme of the movie makes it special!

[CSW] -3- The intended theme of this movie, which wasn't completely apparent until the end, pulled it up from a -2- even thought the elements of that theme did not fit with what I know of that form of spirituality/philosophy. The theme was designed to highlight a very real travesty, child prostitution. At best this is a rental that should be watched without too much thought because although it has a bunch of action it doesn't have any real plot.
[V4.0-A4.0] MPEG-4 AVC - No D-Box.

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