A businessman and his family get in a car accident on a trip to Thailand. When he awakes from a coma to find his family dead, he discovers he can see ghosts.
For some reason when I started watching this film, I was under the impression that they were traveling *from* Thailand and that the accident happened in London. I'm not sure where this impression came from unless it was because I played the game Hellgate: London when it came out and it was just a mental association with the title. The online game tanked, yet was still a billion times better than this movie.
The acting was acceptable to great, depending on the scene. Elwes could have had a few more runs at a couple of scenes where his emotion seemed less than sincere, but otherwise it was well acted. The story was also decent enough, if not slightly cliched in places. The whole thing, as assembled though just... was off. The car accident, while supposed to be startling, was completely expected. The slow creeping in of the supernatural events seemed shoe-horned in as played, and the Thai actors covered in blood just felt like desperate people gooping themselves up to make a buck rather than the scary, otherworld entities they were supposed to be.
Honestly, it got boring.
It was only when we got to Chai and Hurt's personal struggle with the demonic trickery that things were remotely interesting. And you certainly can't carry a whole film with those brief scenes.
One needle drop during their run through the shadow-world maze in the ruins, otherwise this movie didn't elicit much reaction from me. Two out of five stars. Run it on Netflix if you're suffering insomnia and don't want to get up to put in a DVD and it happens to pop up conveniently on the list. Otherwise give it a pass.
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