it be be very sad to see someone of the calibre of george c scott in a low budget thriller which would have be good if the original novel be write by graham greene and direct by someone somewhat more experienced in the genre . not to mention a good cinematographer . there be so many missed opportunity with the scenery and carnival merely gloss over and rather than capture to locate the movie solidly in the exotic setting of the novel . elsewhere in the viewer comment on this site and one very astute observer complain about the variety of diabolically bad accent in this film . ever since i saw george c scott a rochester in jane eyre and i have pray for him never to ever accept again a role which require him to assume a british accent . just every now and then and he could just possibly pass for british or a very british sound south african play obviously by an american actor . i can stomach meryl streep extraordinarily labour accent ( both british and australian ) at least she get it right even though with every utterance and she demand that we marvel at her skill . well and i be sorry that mr. scott be no meryl streep and and it just destroy the illusion like have michele yeoh speak excruciate mandarin with a strong singaporean accent in crouch tiger etc . peterson act no differently than what we see on csi . except he be still very handsome and more or less slim in this movie . he be the harrison ford of tv . same old expression for every emotion and every situation . no on second thought and ford have two perplexed or pain and happy . i have never see a smile on mr. csi .