Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Dolph LundgrenNick Cassidy
- Tony JaaTony Vitayakul
- Ron PerlmanViktor Dragovic
- Celina JadeMin
- Michael Jai WhiteReed
- Peter WellerCostello
- Conan StevensIgor
- Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaSenator Khat
- Tasya TelesRosa Cassidy
- Mike DopudGoran
Recommendations
- 75
RogerEbert.com
This movie's makers haven't met a formula cliché that they don't like. - 58
The A.V. Club
These fight scenes—and the chases that often precede them—are neither ingenious nor novel, but they’re fun and cleanly shot; the fact that this can be considered a major virtue probably says more about the state of the big-budget action movie than about Skin Trade itself. - 50
Village Voice
Skin Trade's action is all blood and sinew, but its camerawork and choreography are nothing if not graceful. - 50
The Dissolve
Everyone’s there to get the job done, Dolph Lundgren style, meaning Skin Trade is a throwback to the one-man-army actioners of the ’80s, sprinkled with updated stats on human trafficking. If the film happens to raise awareness, then that’s more bonus than objective. - 50
Los Angeles Times
If bare-knuckle fights are what you seek, director Ekachai Uekrongtham certainly delivers. But the film scarcely scratches the surface of the horrors of human trafficking. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
For a film so seemingly interested in educating audiences about the evils of sex trafficking that it provides horrific statistics at the conclusion, it has no compunction about including copious doses of female nudity. - 38
Movie Nation
Skin Trade, a project Lundgren co-wrote and has been trying to film for years, feels so dated and over-familiar that “half-decent” always seems just out of reach. - 30
Variety
Snapping necks and shooting limbs have rarely been carried out in service of such a principled cause — or been executed with such formulaic tedium.
