Elephant White - Seen it all before... and better

There's not an awful lot to say about `Elephant White' (apart from observations regarding Kevin Bacon's accent, but we'll get to that later). It's about an assassin, hired to destroy gangs in Thailand in revenge for what they did to his daughter.

So he goes and kills them.

It's a revenge movie. Yes, the bad guys get punished - as you would expect - and yes, the hero does at least run into some trouble along the way. And, our hero is aided by none other than a BRITISH Kevin Bacon. For some reason, he has been told to adopt a borderline cockney/southern accent. When I first heard it, I thought the film had been dubbed. At least he's consistent throughout the film, but his voice is rather off-putting. However, he's not in it as much as the film's advertising poster may hope to imply. Fans of Kevin be warned: he's not in it that much.

Yes, there's action. And there's some nice `sniper fights' which make a change from simply blasting the bad guys up close and personal. However, it's all been done before. It's an okay movie, but there's nothing original enough to make it into a really great movie (apart from Bacon's weird accent - that's worth hearing in itself).

5/10 a hard trek, a bit like unicycling to Mordor and back