The Asian Connection (2016)

The Asian Connection is a 2016 action film starring Steven Seagal. Two expatriates living in Thailand go to Cambodia and steal a drug lord’s money. The film was based on a story by the actor Tom Sizemore called The Mexican Connection. It was rewritten to be set in Asia.

Plot:

Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord’s money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang’s vengeance. When Sam is killed, Jack turns to the love of his life, Pom, and the couple becomes a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde that takes the fight to the gang. Review: A couple of ex-pats – American Jack (John Edward Lee) and Brit Sam (Byron Gibson) – get bored with working for a living in Thailand and so they cross the border into Burma and rob a bank and are shocked to find that the place is fully loaded with American dollars.

They zip away on their motorcycles, cross back into Thailand, and split the money and lay low. Jack has plans to take his girlfriend Avalon (Pim Bubear) away forever with his share of the big score, but what he didn’t count on was that the money belonged to a vicious crime lord named Gan Sirankiri (a heavy looking Steven Seagal) who is obviously not going to stand for someone stealing the cash he was assured would be safe in a Burmese bank. He sends his right hand man Niran (Sahajak Boonthanakit) to trace his marked bills, and within a day he pays a visit to Jack, who boneheadedly put all that money into a bank account.

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Niran has a plan: He forces Jack and his partner Sam to continue robbing banks of Gan’s money as a penance, and Niran will keep most of his boss’s money for himself, building a sweet nest egg he will use to get out from under Gan’s thumb. But after a handful of robberies, Gan begins suspecting that Niran is double crossing him, and so he corrals his thugs around him to go on the warpath – first to kill Niran, and then to find the two people who robbed him in the first place.

Review:

‘The Asian Connection’ opens with a bang, a robbery in which a small bank is hit, and over 200,000 USD are taken. The bank is supposed to be located in Cambodia, but it is Thailand, no matter, as the action in the scene is close quarter, intense and definitely sets the tone. The money of course has an owner, and Steven Seagal, is obviously not very happy about losing large sums of cash.Seagal here has some really fast hands in the action sequences. The highlights of ‘The Asian Connection’ are the beautiful sweeping cinematography and the frantic action. Lush landscapes and creative camera angles frame the movie with a unique look. At times viewers are ‘in’ the action, and at other times, the audience is hovering above, almost in spy cam mode. Very creative.