Review of Vengeance of an Assassin (2014) by Amy S — 21 Feb 2017

I went to see this film when I was in Thailand, and I watched it with English subtitles. When I left the theatre, I left without understanding any of what I had just watched. I would have put this down to poor subtitles (a personal favourite line was "Life is like a dog.

"), but I was with two native Thai speakers and they also had no idea what had happened! The plot made no sense at all, it was unclear who was who and what was happening and why. We got the vague idea that he was avenging his parents' murders, but that was as far as we got in terms of comprehension.

At one point I left to go to the bathroom and stopped at the arcade on my way back for a minute, and when I re-entered the screen it had jumped from the assassin being in a graveyard to him running across the top of an exploding train with a strange princess in tow.

I asked my friend sitting next to me to explain what I had missed, but he couldn't. The one good thing about this film was that it was very funny, but I'm going to have a guess and say that that was unintentional.

.. 1/5 stars - not recommended.