Skin Trade (2014)

Skin Trade: Directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham. With Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman. After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests, NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network.

“Whatu0026#39;s extra entertaining about SKIN TRADE is knowing that 57-year old Dolph Lundgren gets to fight Hellboy a.k.a actor Ron Perlman and Spawn a.k.a actor Michael Jai White, and that Ong Bak dude, Tony Jaa, in this one movie. All joking aside, with all of the superpowered superhero movies out there that keep bombarding our theaters every weekend, itu0026#39;s a nice change for us action fans to receive something like SKIN TRADE, a throwback to those 80s R-rated brutal B action flicks that you and I grew up watching.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn this Ekachai Uekrongtham-directed film, co-scripted and co-produced by Lundgren, a tough NY Cop named Nick (Lundgren) is on a task to hunt down Russian mob and human trafficking kingpin Viktor (Ron Perlman) but in the process, Nick kills Viktoru0026#39;s son and of course, that comes with a retaliation, such that forces Nick to go all the way to Bangkok, the hub of Viktoru0026#39;s activities. Meanwhile, a Thai detective (Tony Jaa) is made to believe that Nick is the bad guy until he learns otherwise. Then they team up to terminate Viktoru0026#39;s human trafficking business OK, I admit, the plot is very thin and if youu0026#39;ve seen Liam Neesonu0026#39;s u0026quot;Takenu0026quot; a thousand times (the first movie, not the sequels that blew) then the concept of SKIN TRADE is nothing new, in both cases you have this very hard pressing and present modern slavery problem as the background, but most of the time, the action takes a front seat. Itu0026#39;s a treat to see Lundgren duke it out with Tony because they have different styles, and the fight choreography itself is more intense than Lundgren Vs. Jet Li in u0026quot;The Expendablesu0026quot; movie. I think the way the production utilizes the streets of Bangkok is very intricate. The sequences are fast-paced and brutal. You canu0026#39;t help but be impressed at the fact that after all these years, even when his better days and better movies are way, way behind him, Dolph Lundgren managed to get something like SKIN TRADE made just to satisfy us old school action fans Read more at Ramascreen.Com”