Watched all 12 episodes of Thailand's 2014 Bad Guys--easily confused with movies of similar titles--based on  the South Korean TV series. It is set in Thailand and its original dialogue in Thai, and it was pleasant to hear Thai spoken straight without the usual sing-song. 

Inspector Pitak, fired for misconduct, is reinstated by the chief of police to avenge the murder of his son and to capture the Rain Man, a serial killer who attacks whenever it rains. Pitak requests to form a team comprised of a female captain and three brutal murderers: Yak (a.k.a Thug), Race (a.k.a. Pretty Boy), and Sky (a.k.a. Psycho). In the course of their mission they encounter illegal organ trading, a drug cartel, a mass shooter, a Big Three syndicate, and corruption within the police system itself.

The premise of the series is interesting for its many turnabouts--antiheroes transforming into heroes, ruthless protagonists coming face-to-face with their tragic pasts and their former associates, and unexpected betrayals. Even the subplots are exciting, and the reenactment of murders enhanced by clever editing in which each protagonist is shown substituting for the actual murderers in "What If?" mode.

Every episode is a heart-stopper. Every episode, however, is also extremely bloody and extremely violent. The saving grace of the series is that the values of compassion, friendship, loyalty, and justice always shone through.

There are several glitches. Too many characters show up at the right time, especially Inspector Pitak, a la deus-ex-machina, to save the situation. The Ninkin prostitution scene seems highly unlikely for a girl educated in a sheltered environment. In addition, Ninkin has earned a music scholarship at Berkeley, yet, when she is shown playing the piano at home, they sound like John Thompson intermediate pieces. In Episode 8 Captain Alisa Yooyeunyong downs a bottle of wine and afterward gets on a motorbike and races with Prosecutor Padej of the District Attorney's Office. In a previous episode Sky informs us that he buys linseed oil for his girlfriend, who is an art major, but in Episode 10 he is shown painting a picture himself. A later scene does show his girlfriend painting, but she is not holding the brush right and her strokes are not convincing. "Identity Psychiatric Hospital" is a questionable name. In Episode 11, Pitak claims that his attacker has scales tattooed on his back, but in all scenes in which he was attacked, the attacker kept his shirt and jacket on. Finally, that Sky kept getting stabbed and shot in the stomach in many episodes was also verging on the ridiculous.

On the whole, the series provided good, entertaining screenings. It was fun to see all those perps getting knocked off by the team, and everything was ultimately more horrific than all the Jeffrey Dahmer movies combined.