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In this riveting thriller, Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale star as two best friends whose dream vacation becomes a nightmare. Alice (Danes) is impulsive and reckless; Darlene (Beckinsale) is more reserved. But when each falls for the same mysterious man, both girls throw caution to the wind, and in one instant, their lives are changed forever. Now in a foreign land, they must prove their innocence before it’s too late. Bill Pullman co-stars in this “compelling” (People Mag… More >>
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Brokedown Palace is bad. How bad is it? It’s pretty bad, man.
Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you.
Rating: 1 / 5
Am I wrong or this movie is an insult to the king/gov of Thailand ? What’s wrong with you people ? In any case it’s really corny !
Rating: 1 / 5
My wife wanted to rent this video, and against my better judgment I agreed. When the two main characters decided to go to Thailand instead of Maui (with the knowledge of one girl’s father) after their high school graduation, I said to my wife “I’d be damned if I let my daughter go to Thailand with one other girl at the age of 18″. My wife said “I’d be damned if I let my daughter go to Maui with one other girl at the age of 18″. So apparently even the “good” girl’s parents didn’t review their daughter’s travel documents with her. Of course she didn’t leave a phone number at which she could be reached, and apparently if she did her parents never called the number to check up on her. The first they knew she was in Thailand was after she had been arrested!
This was only one ludicrous sequence in a very bad, very stupid movie. My favorite scene – this one was LOL – was when the Claire Danes character got arrested and screamed at the cops “I’m an American citizen! I want a lawyer!” All I could think of was “Bang on your high chair all you want, honey, but you’re playing by their rules now.” These girls were so clueless and arrogant that I found myself rooting for the Thai prison guards. If you’re a female between the ages of 18 and 25, this movie might be for you. If you fall into any other demographic group, don’t buy it, don’t rent it. Run like hell at the mention of its name.
Rating: 1 / 5
This film was supposed to be titled “Two Girls” They changed it. I can think of several titles more appropriate then “Brokedown Palace.” “Thailand 90210,” how about “The real World….Bangkock.” God I feel silly. I was actually afraid of this film. I had horrible images in my mind of poor Claire Danes and poor Kate Beckenshaw (whoever the hell she is), being tossed into some “Midnight Express” style hell hole, I hate movies like that, but not Claire Danes, oh please not that! I needn’t have worried. It turns out that foreign prisons are not so much jails as crowded dorm rooms in junior college, this move could have taken place in any Catholic boarding school. I wanted to love it or hate it but, like many, many critics, just couldn’t muster much concern one way or another. Sure the film is rife with silly errors Example: there is no mention of passports, these girls just fly off to Thailand either without them (they would not have gotten plain tickets) or they paid an exorbitant price for them (negating any money saving that would have enticed them to go in the first place). Certain jobs in Thailand are not held by foreigners, it is not allowed. One of those jobs is in the legal field, unless you are Bill Pullman, I guess there is a special exception for him, anyway. These errors are not so glaring as the whole concept of two wild party girls, the film opens with them drinking in a graveyard with there friends, rushing halfway around the world to pray at a temple, oh those crazy girls, “It’s graduation…..lets go to the Buddhist temple as start praying’” Who could blame them. Then there is the whole smuggling thing. Do you believe that smugglers deliberately turn in there own “mules” so others can get by, do you think that the Thai airport authorities would not see that 8 girls heading to Hong Kong had the tickets purchased on the same stolen credit card? There is much to swallow hear, and precious little reason to. The big emotional scene in the film is when Darlene accused Alice of sleeping with Nick, I am not kidding, this is where she really cuts loose, not when she is arrested or is freed by Alice’s whining in court. There is an unbearable scene in the end where Claire Danes literally throws herself on the mercy lf the Thai court…oh the humanity! And a plethora of silliness in the prison, after an attempted escape, she and her girlfriend are thrown in the quite room to pout, oh those evil Thai and there torture! The pouty room! Surly Amnesty International should be notified, and who dies there makeup in prison anyway? they do a good job. I wish I could just say this was, balls out, a terrible movie, but Claire is such a sweetie that I, like the prison officials, just can’t stay mad at the poor girl. I hope, I really hope that our prisoners are being treated as nicely as they are in this movie, sadly that probably is not true. I will be visiting Thailand in March and will let anyone know how it went, will go see our prisoners there. I will not mention this film. “Lost Johnny”
Rating: 2 / 5
The acting in this movie was first rate but the story and all the plot holes were too much for me. You’d be better off seeing Return to Paradise. If you have seen it, don’t bother watching this, you’ll see nothing new.
Rating: 3 / 5