Sunday, 24 September 2023

Farang (4 Stars)


This is the 17th film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.

Samir has lived a life of crime. He's been carrying drugs for a French gang. When he's sentenced to five years in prison, he decides to make a new start. He's a model prisoner, and he wants to live a clean life when he's released. It's not that easy. His former gang members want him to work for them again. When he refuses, they attempt to beat him up, but he fights off the attackers, accidentally killing the gang boss's brother.

Samir decides to run away. He moves to Thailand, where he marries a woman and adopts her daughters. But it's a small world. The gangsters in Thailand have contacts with the French gang. He has to fight for his life.

The fight scenes are brutal. "Farang" has been compared with "The Raid", but I don't see much similarity. The fight scenes in "Farang" are more realistic. I prefer the fight choreography in "The Raid". The realism in "Farang" makes the fights too horrific for me.

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