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Director
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Cast
Nopachai Chaiyanam,
Sirin Horwang,
Chanokporn Sayoungkul,
Apisit Opasaimlikit,
Kiat Punpiputt,
Akarin Akaranitimaytharatt
Genre
Crime,
Drama,
Thriller
Straight-laced detective Tul is shot in the head while on an assignment. After spending three months in a coma, he wakes up to find that he suddenly sees everything upside down. With his worldview completely changed, he becomes an assassin for a group that aims to eliminate those that live above the law.
Time Out by Eric Hynes
The most "Naked City"–worthy aspect is the film's temperature, fixed precisely between cool posturing and broiling anomie. Its vision of contemporary Thailand is recognizable as another society undeserving of redemption, but worthy of poetry.
Slant Magazine by Elise Nakhnikian
This "Buddhist film noir," as writer-director Pen-ek Ratanaruang calls it, is surprisingly slow-moving and soulful for a film full of double-crosses and cold-blooded killing.
Village Voice
The awesome shit's awesome; the ponderous is ponderous; and the bloody corpses are arranged as artfully as wedding bouquets.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
A dreamy, elliptical neo-noir about a cop turned killer turned something else altogether.
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
The awesome shit's awesome; the ponderous is ponderous; and the bloody corpses are arranged as artfully as wedding bouquets.
The A.V. Club
Headshot is, unfortunately, far better with ideas than with narrative.
The A.V. Club by Alison Willmore
Headshot is, unfortunately, far better with ideas than with narrative.
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