At first glance this look like the run of the mill action movies. There's a lot of shoot outs, fighting, killing and general violence. The storyline isn't that complicated either. But that is not what make this movie interesting, yet repulsive. The movie takes place in Bangkok, in the red light district to be precise. The prostitution is controlled by mobster syndicates with no scruples and no mercy. Countless numbers of girls, which are mostly underage is forced into prostitution and drugged so the mobsters can control them. This makes them drug addicts and totally depended on their keepers, with no way to avoid the abuse. This aspect is portrait very close in the movie while it in the same time reflect the more religious and spiritual part of Thailand. Even the title "Elephant White" reflects to local religion and believe. So this makes the movie a bit hart gripping because it is not just another action movie.

I am a very big Kevin Bacon fan. I was disappointed with his character in this movie. I couldn't get passed the accent. I was also not keen on the actress playing the part of Mae.On the other hand, Djimon Hounsou played a great role. I will admit that sometimes I felt that he was invincible. But I still say that without him I wouldn't have scored the movie so high.This movie made me aware of how much child prostitution goes on in different parts of the world. I couldn't believe how these young girls were treated (drugs, beatings,forced sex etc.).All in all it was a good movie. Worth watching.

If you are looking for an adventure movie, think again if this specific film is the one you're looking for. The plot was very simple and uninteresting. I was hoping for a Michael Mann and realistically expecting a Hollywood made Hong Kong style macho film. However this one was neither stylistic nor sophisticated enough to be those. It could be satisfactory if you're missing the younger Seagal of twenty years ago or are a shoot 'em up style computer games player expecting similar qualities in films. Even on these points the script was lousy and unenterprising. Here comes Hounsou the sniper as he targets the bad guys at their large and very brightly lit house, they all keep standing at the many windows like sitting ducks and wait to be taken out one by one.So Hounsou in total kills 50 guys and expertly beats up 100, then there is a dash of Thai mysticism as a twist and the at the end we are reminded that the film was a noble statement against sex trafficking. I think the only thing that remains from this film is that Hounsou made his claim as the potential star of bigger action movies. He was covering Russell Crowe and Leo Caprio in his previous major roles and now he proves that he is ready to go at it alone. As opposed to his appreciated and strong acting in former films, he was too bland, unengaged and nasty this time even for the standards of a mercenary, so we have no Jackal here either. I think these might be a problem for him in the future lest he ends up becoming another Dolph Lundgren.I can't seem to find a thing I liked about this film apart from watching nice bits of Thai noir cityscape. Well on that count this one was superior to Bangkok Dangerous I think (nice cinematography plus we were spared Nick Cage and his wig here). I don't care a lot about accents so for me Kevin Bacon's low key presence was negligible. Can't really recommend this film.

Very very unfair reviews. Kevin Bacon made a super job of the accent. Just because you're not used to seeing him do an English accent does not mean it is bad. Actually it was quite good. Overall the acting was good and the action scenes where good. The story line was good and the ending was good. What more do you want! Blood? For people who visit Bangkok or knows anything about day to day life in Thailand it adds entertainment for sure. Amalgamating Asian casts for western audiences is probably the hardest exercise in the film industry until we get another Bruce Lee. This film is not about martial arts at all, contrary to many posts here. The last film that tried this Bangkok dangerous failed miserably and I can assure you this film comes to the rescue in that department. Overall entertaining and well put together.