Thai crime thriller ‘Bad Genius’ on Cinema One
Thailand’s biggest global thriller to date, “Bad Genius,” an exhilarating high school exam delinquency-turnedinternational crime, makes its movie premiere on Cinema One tonight.
Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying stars as Lynn in “Bad Genius,” a straight-A high school student who engineers an examscheating scheme to earn money, a ruse that eventually involves loot worth millions of baht.
Shot in Thailand and Australia, and based on real-life news of cheating in a college admission test, “Bad Genius” became the highest-grossing Thai movie last year and the most internationally successful Thai film to date. It also nabbed multiple awards in various international film festivals and won in 12 categories at the 27th Suphannahong National Film Awards.
In a review by Maggie Lee posted in Variety.com, she compared the film to the hit Hollywood flick “Ocean’s Eleven.”
“Dramatizing the clever capers of Thai high school kids who formed an examcheating syndicate, ‘Bad Genius’ deserves full marks for a whip-smart script that makes answering multiple-choice questions as nail-biting and entertaining as ‘Ocean’s Eleven,’” Lee wrote.
“The young cast burst with energy and have great comic timing. Teen model Chuengcharoensukying makes an eyecatching screen debut.”
Catch the exciting school crime adventure in “Bad Genius” on August 12, in Cinema One’s Blockbuster Sunday, now airing earlier at 7 p.m. Cinema One is available on SKYcable Channel 56, SKYdirect Channel 19, Destiny Cable Analog 37 and Digital 56.