Jimmy (Matt Dillon) sold property insurance but the company fails to pay after a hurricane. The police investigates. The offshore accounts have been liquidated. Jimmy claims to be a hired hand and the owner has disappeared. He goes to Thailand to talk to his contact Joseph Kaspar (Stellan Skarsgård). Their boss Marvin (James Caan) has disappeared with their cut. He is supposedly in Cambodia on the run from the Russians. He checks into a hotel run by Emile (Gérard Depardieu) but his passport is stolen. He comes to the rescue for Sophie (Natascha McElhone).The story is flat and has no tension. It goes from one place to another for no particular reason. Presumably he could have called Kaspar but then he wouldn't be in Thailand. The stock characters are pulled from Graham Greene novels. This is much more of a travelogue. The movie has no movement or flow. It's a lot of waiting around in the first half. I love the foreign locations but there isn't anything more. Matt Dillon probably bit off more than he could chew.

With a little more work this might have been an excellent addition to modern film noir. We have the double and triple crosses, the dark settings, the abundant cast of seedy characters, and the tangled web that gets more and more tangled. As it stands, though, it fails to achieve the level of noir I enjoy. Nonetheless it is worthy of a view, especially the scenes of Cambodia, which has rarely been a subject for a film. The film probably could benefit from some judicious editing. At the current length it is a little long, and some of the scenes (especially with the female interest) aren't necessary.There is good acting and excellent photography and music.

This is no masterpiece but it's well worth watching, especially for guys. I was transported back to my military days. The brothels, the shabby bars and 'hotels' are all real in memory. Matt Dillon directs and co-writes and as such manages to create many worthwhile scenes with the help of some heavyweight friends such as Gérard Depardieu and James Caan and Natascha McElhone. What I especially liked about it all was its freshness and ability to engross. The plot is not deep but it sounds more real then many others I've heard. Dillon is questioned when his boss for whom he's been selling insurance disappears with the money. He decides to go after him to Cambodia where there's extreme poverty and many unscrupulous men.

I've seen the movie "blindly" (citing one of the comments) and the feeling was for story not so good but having excellent "screen life" – the picture was not boring, with VERY good camera (do you remember how the camera was jumping intriguingly just for a part of second on various objects, over tiny details and fugitive images suggesting the plot). The song of Marvin was impressive and highlighting. Depardieu is notable as usual. The love thread is banal. For Cambodia - yet its tragedy remains unrevealed for the screen and stories like this remain only amusing except the real scenery and original faces. It's worth to see and to think.