Deep

source: Deep

I love medical Sci Fi (my favorite sub-genre) and I went into this with high hopes. Finished Biohackers just recently and expected similar vibe from this one while allowing space of surprises and, obviously, original plot. Little to say, it was severely disappointing. The plot is extremely shallow, dealing mostly with the 'shock value' effects of prolonged sleep deprivation, completely neglecting individual characters' internal battle with it. There are inaccuracies and unbelievable plot elements. We do know how long someone can go without sleep - 11 days max. Maybe it's a cultural thing but I find it hard to believe people would be talked into doing suicide mission for the sake of someone they had a bowling outing with. The villain/s of the story are way too 'bloodthirsty' for medical research professionals. I can't figure out whether the whole thing was officially in the blank or not, and if the contracts were just for show/buying time or not. In either case, pacing themselves and allowing their volunteers to remain volunteers would be more productive and would save them a lot of trouble.

I really enjoyed this movie and was immediately sucked into the story. In my opinion, good acting, good story and good music. Speaking of which...... I really want to know what band made the last song played at the end of the movie.."it's not fair, you've done your part..." Does anybody have info on the band at the end? I would love to hear from you if you do know. Maybe respond to my review or post a review with the info if you have it.

Im not saying this is a good movie. As said by many others reviewers, it's a great idea, but poorly executed. But... If you take a look at the profiles of the main cast and crew, will notice this is the first to third job of many of then in a non mainstream low budget production, mostly funded by a phone service company. Little of the movie problems are in the acting and direction. The big chunk of it rest in the screenplay. Have six people writing one single script will almost always end in a convoluted story line. They will add and cut stuff, they will argue and disagree and in the end will be so focused on details and forget the big picture. Even so, one final review from an outside and critical eye would have made wonders to the movie. I liked most of it. Skipped a lot of soap opera drama parts. Lots of potential for a western remake.

Different concept but exaggerated. Scenes were intensifying. Teens performance was good.

Why Thai directors stopped making movies like Fen Chan, Puan Sanit or One Day? Where all the talent gone? Why so many new Thai directors are trying to produce overly cool and overly smart movies resulting in idiotic movies like this one or Ghost Lab for example...

This was a low budget coming of age scify movie. Mostly panned but I thought it was great fun. Worth a watch.

I saw this on Netflix. Ive not seen that many Thai films before, i can think of 2, Shutter and Ong Bak. I've been to Thailand once on holiday so I'm no expert on Thai culture. The premise of the film is decent. Its a drug trial based on sleep deprivation, 4 teens from the same College sign up with the lure of large sums of money, ( for a young Thai person ). The opportunity to explore these ideas were however wasted. It soon became a teen drama full of stereotypes and movie tropes. The film was well shot but the acting wasn't great with the exception of the female lead who had a decent presence. I watched in Thai original and English subtitles so I can imagine some of the translations were culturally altered. The opening 30 mins were interesting but when I was expecting things to go deeper the middle section became a teen drama. The ending is where it fell apart with multiple plot holes ' the twist ' and contrived story telling. Its meandering entertainment at best, I think even many Teens would find a lot of this a bit too fluffy and childish. Ive marked it slightly higher for its production values and good female lead but its probably more like a 5. They would have got away with it if it wasn't for them pesky kids !!!

I stopped watching after 1 hour, the idea was amazing, kind of new thing but suddenly it changes from sci fi thriller movie to a childish teen drama and it is not the kind of drama that u would like. I thought it will be kind of thrill that will make me anxious and feeling tense for the whole time but it was not. Its a movie for teenagers dancing drinking....etc. Nothing cool about it at all.