Beyond Rangoon

does she not do her usual sleepwalking-zombie line readings?

she seemed like a one-faced character throughout the whole movie
but the jungle scenes are dope

Saw this movie again on DVD. I saw it in a more mature less sleep deprived state and I can say that I really like this movie. The political tension, Buddhism-like motifs (like the selfless and fearless nature of Auund San Suu Kyi and the main character of this movie), the survival/action stuff, the amazing scenery, and mostly the depiction of the 8888 Uprising which led to 1000s of deaths during protests seems accurate enough to make me feel like I should be there fighting with them. but there was no fight just military Burmese people killing their own people protesting for The National League For Democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi, the hero of this democratic party, won a nobel peace prize in 1991 but is still under house arrest mostly because Burma is still under rule by military junta

The other people I saw the movie with didn't really like it as much. I'm more interested in political stuff and survival-type movies.
I can't say that the acting was great or anything and also film critics say: "in attempting to make its politics palatable as entertainment, the film has grafted them onto a boatload of Hollywood implausibilities whose excesses cripple believability." I liked the implausible hollywood pleasing scenes. That dope action shit that makes the film gripping. If the film wasn't gripping I would have changed the channel the first time I saw it and cared less about the massacre in burma