Sam is a professional boxer about to get released from prison. While on parole, his past catches up with him and he has no choice but to flee. Five years later, he has rebuilt a simple life on an exotic island in Thailand with his wife and her daughter, but when he gets blackmailed by a dangerous local godfather, he must embark on a dangerous drug smuggling mission which results in a tragedy. Now he has only one purpose: to seek merciless vengeance.
Stunts
Nassim Lyes does his own brutal, bone-crunching fight choreography.
Direction
Xavier Gens stages chaos with nasty French extremity flair.
Director
Xavier Gens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nassim Lyes spent six months training in Muay Thai and prison-yard boxing styles to differentiate Sam's fighting from polished MMA aesthetics.
The film deliberately mirrors 2000s Thai revenge cinema (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, etc.) but through a French genre lens—Gens called it 'Ong-Bak by way of Gaspar Noé.'
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