When seeing this movie I started to wonder how many movies of this type already have been made. I couldn't give you the exact number, but I sure can remember several of them. I sometimes even think there is only one major script for all these movies. All they do is change a line here and there and use some new actors to keep it a bit interesting.
This time it's about three young Americans called Lewis, Sheriff and Tony, who have met each other in Malaysia. They stay together the entire summer, dividing their time between women, alcohol and drugs... When the summer is over, Tony and Sheriff go back to New York, but Lewis decides to go to Borneo to help save the orangutan. But before he even got the chance to leave, he is arrested for possession of the drugs that have been left over and he's sentenced to death because he's considered to be trafficking. The only way to save him is when Tony and Sheriff go back to Malaysia to spend three years in jail or six years, when only one of them goes. Lewis lawyer does everything to persuade them, but will it be enough to convince them to give up three years of their lives?
As I already said earlier in this review, there seems to be only one major script for this kind of movies. They all look a bit the same and they all seem to try to warn us that drugs are bad and even worse when you are caught with them in some Third-World country where the prisons are awful and death imminent. We all know that already by now, so why should you give this one a try then? Well, it has to be said, it's one of the finer examples of the genre and it never feels like the average TV-movie about this subject. It's a good movie with some good acting and with a story that isn't too predictable. That's why I give it a 7/10.
This time it's about three young Americans called Lewis, Sheriff and Tony, who have met each other in Malaysia. They stay together the entire summer, dividing their time between women, alcohol and drugs... When the summer is over, Tony and Sheriff go back to New York, but Lewis decides to go to Borneo to help save the orangutan. But before he even got the chance to leave, he is arrested for possession of the drugs that have been left over and he's sentenced to death because he's considered to be trafficking. The only way to save him is when Tony and Sheriff go back to Malaysia to spend three years in jail or six years, when only one of them goes. Lewis lawyer does everything to persuade them, but will it be enough to convince them to give up three years of their lives?
As I already said earlier in this review, there seems to be only one major script for this kind of movies. They all look a bit the same and they all seem to try to warn us that drugs are bad and even worse when you are caught with them in some Third-World country where the prisons are awful and death imminent. We all know that already by now, so why should you give this one a try then? Well, it has to be said, it's one of the finer examples of the genre and it never feels like the average TV-movie about this subject. It's a good movie with some good acting and with a story that isn't too predictable. That's why I give it a 7/10.