The story of a hitman who spends 12 hours touring the city with a long list of targets is a deathly plod. L acking much else, this VOD-bound actioner offers two unexpected comebacks for the price of one.
The star is Mark Dacascos, erstwhile straight-to-video stalwart aiming to convert his nifty John Wick 3 cameo into a second leading-man career. Sever in His latest is a baby step up from that — cheap, self-produced tat being preferable to aggressively expensive corporate tat — but still feels underpowered.
The pitch would be Collateral updated for the age of Uber; it plays, alas, like Collateral with the handbrake on. However, bigger question marks hang over Kaos. He gives the Bangkok sights a basic nocturnal sheen — even reviving the kind of strip-joint safari we all thought went out with the demise of Nuts magazine — but also floods scenes with the deadest of dead air in a vain push for atmosphere, and seems to think two negligibly different angles of the same dull shot will make for a dynamic, DePalma-like split screen.
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