Thailand’s biggest global thriller to date, Bad Genius, an exhilarating high school exam delinquency-turned-international crime, makes its exciting movie premiere on Cinema One tomorrow.
Chutimon Chuen charoensukying stars as Lynn in Bad Genius, a straight-A high school student who engineers an exams-cheating 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 twelve categories at the 27th Suphannahong National Film Awards.
In a review by Maggie Lee posted in American online magazine Variety.com, she compared the Cinema One Blockbuster Sunday feature to the hit Hollywood flick Ocean’s Eleven. She said, “Dramatizing the clever capers of Thai high school kids who formed an exam-cheating 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 also commended the film’s stars writing, “The young cast burst with energy and have great comic timing. Teen model Chuengcharoensukying makes an eye-catching screen debut.”
Bad Genius airs Cinema One’s Blockbuster Sunday at 7:00 p.m. Cinema One is available on SKYcable Channel 56, SKYdirect Channel 19, Destiny Cable Analog 37 and Digital 56.