One Take Only Reviews

With its relentlessly propulsive soundtrack, dizzying camera work, and neon colors, One Take Only has style to spare, even if it's really nothing more than another tale of doomed young outlaw lovers. Like the couples in Kalifornia, Natural Born Killers, and a host of other movies, Mak (Pawalit Mongkolpisit, who also starred in Bangkok Dangerous) and his girl find love in the seedy world of petty crime, and run into trouble when their deluded aspirations set them on a collision course with truly ruthless criminals. Derivative though the film may be, its two young leads are undeniably charming, and, in Mak's case, charmingly clueless (his drug-addled fantasies of performing the kind of ultra violence he could never actually bring himself to do are brutally hilarious). While its bare-bones, utterly predictable story line and stylistic trickery thwart almost any emotional involvement, One Take Only works perfectly well as a manic, breakneck thrill ride.