Release Date:
04/25/2003
If youve ever harbored unnerving thoughts about the untamed outback that is Cambodia, then this eerie gangster flick should do little to dispel your fears. Popping his directorial cherry, Matt Dillon casts himself as Jimmy Cremins, a wily small-time crook caught up in an international insurance scam who travels eastward (after the Feds start knocking on his door) to track down his boss and locate his share of the laundered money. His probing opens up a nasty can of rice bugs, however, and he soon finds himself embroiled in a shady underworld of double-dealing, backstabbing, and bloken Engrish. The premise sounds enticing, but the plot lurches from one pointless land mine to another as it degenerates into little more than an advertisement for the Cambodian Tourist Board, with countless snapshots of scary statues and even scarier people. Add to that a haunting soundtrack reminiscent of a cat passing a barbed mango and youll have enough macabre material to make the Khmer Rouge look like the FDR administration.