Bangkok Dangerous

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Bangkok Dangerous

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Bangkok Dangerous

Nicolas Cage, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Charlie Young, Panward Hemmanee, Nirattisai Kaljaruek

A hitman who's in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.

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  • thefog1331
    November 7, 2009
    thefog1331
    A slow, fairly amusing dramatic thriller.I wanna like Nick Cage but dammit he has the worst taste in chosing his films.
  • Deano78
    July 27, 2009
    Deano78
    An ok action film with a decent enough production. Some odd storylines, plot developments but the action more than makes up for it. However you might like something along the lines of Vantage Point better, similar in some respects.
  • TheMachinist
    July 27, 2009
    TheMachinist
    Well, Nic Cage is back with another lame movie. The man known of his terrible hairstyle has yet again chosen to participate in a bad movie, which he even produced. So I guess he had some faith with the production but critics didn't like it and neither did most of the viewers.

    'B...( read more)angkok Dangerous' is a remake of the same titled feature by the Pang brothers from '99. They also directed the original, which I haven't seen so I can't really compare the films. In this Nic Cage is a hitman who obeys four basic rules and ends fuckin' up each and every one of 'em. So a pro turned out to be a not so professional after all... Of course there are the mandatory love story that is totally pointless in a film like this.

    The film does look good and has some terrific underwater scenes. The camera captures the Bangkok night very beautifully but a decent cameraman can't really save a film when the directors don't really know how to build up the tension.

    Nic Cage hasn't really made anything spactacular in years. He has done some ok movies like 'National Treasure', 'Lord of War' and 'Matchstick Men' but looks like he can't find his way out of average movie hell. Well see..
  • RiderOfTheStorms
    March 14, 2009
    RiderOfTheStorms
    I actually enjoyed it
  • EarthlyAlien
    March 6, 2009
    EarthlyAlien
    "I was taught four rules. One: Don't ask questions. There is no such thing as right and wrong. Two: Don't take an interest in people outside of work. There is no such thing as trust. Three: Erase every trace. Come anonymous and leave nothing behind. Four: Know when to get out....( read more) Just thinking about it means it's time. Before you lose your edge, before you become a target."

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    Oh brother, here we go again. A professional killer, years into his callous career, suddenly develops a conscience. He decides to take a shady street kid who has already proven to be naïve and unreliable under his wing. Vowing to end his life of secret crime, he commits to one more series of deadly assassinations. With each murder, he finds himself more and more lost. When the last hit goes pear-shaped, he must defend his honour while deciding whether it is better to be the highly paid hunter, or the common everyday prey. Oh yeah, and for an added maudlin effect, there's a deaf girl love interest who makes the hitman pine even harder for that elusive, simple life.

    Why the Pang brothers wanted to remake their 1999 cult favourite Bangkok Dangerous into a mindless, droning Hollywood hack job has only one viable answer - the interest of a man who was once a great actor, the former Oscar-winner/current paycheck-casher Nicolas Cage in playing the lead. In his role as Joe, we're treated to Method mediocrity, the kind of performance that finds our systematic slayer following strict protocols and certain succinct rules as a substitute for depth or actual personal dimension.

    The plot has Cage deciding to give up the game, analysing the ways he can get out of his occupation once and for all. He decides to take one more job in Bangkok, because a) it's exotic and, you know, Americans who travel are sophisticated, and b) because if it was in L.A. or NYC they would have to change the title and that would defeat the whole purpose. There, he befriends street hustler Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm) and turns him into a quasi-protégé. The rest of the film is a series of set-ups for uninteresting, if certainly stylized, pop-gun pay-offs. Eventually, Joe must decide between people and his personal needs while taking on the syndicate that hired him.

    In a film with dozens of problems, the main flaw in Bangkok Dangerous is that Cage's Joe is never presented as a sympathetic or compelling figure. He's completely depressed and disillusioned from the moment we meet him, and he only gets worse as his situation starts to unravel. Instead of using said circumstances to force his final stand, we're given over to endless sequences of silent brooding. His interest in the local pharmacy clerk (Charlie Young) who can't hear seems specious, the twist in their relationship telegraphed by Cage's inherent ability to draw danger to himself. Even his interaction with Kong comes across as a pure narrative device. So does Joe's decision to swoop in and save the thug once the local mobsters decide he's expendable.

    Much of the film feels like lessons badly learned from John Woo. While they avoid the auteur's overuse of slow motion and visual panache, the Pangs have their own set of irritating on-screen tendencies. They think that mannered music video moves and a total desaturation of colour equals palpable post-modern noir. It worked ten years ago, because that was ten years ago and they were two passionate kids from Hong Kong making what they loved. Here, it merely inspires current viewing nausea. Even the final firefight set in a factory is so dark that a night vision lens would still render it dimly lit. About the only effective moment occurs when Joe's date with his deaf dream girl goes awry. There, the Pangs play on the syrupy situation to wring out a little forced emotion.

    If it didn't feel like such a work of Hollywood hubris and if the original elements that made the first film so intriguing (it was the hitman not the girl, who could not hear, which was why he was so good at offing people and such a compelling character at the same time) weren't swept aside for more anti-climatic, anti-heroic rubbish, maybe we could support what Bangkok Dangerous and the Pangs were striving to accomplish. But everything here feels like the proverbial sound and fury, filled with typical Asian action film gravitas designed to cash in millions around the world, yet signifying nothing - a whole lot of nothing.
  • AshT4real
    December 26, 2009
    AshT4real
    great movie great story simply great
  • ztorbeck
    December 25, 2009
    ztorbeck
    The worst movie of 2008
  • peppage
    December 17, 2009
    peppage
    Wow this was terrible.
  • themasterpiece69
    December 9, 2009
    themasterpiece69
    This movie is okay.The action scenes are okay and the scenery is cool as well.
  • pinnakvinna
    December 4, 2009
    pinnakvinna
    Joe is a professional American assassin who has come to Bangkok on his final assignment. He is assigned to kill 4 people and retirement awaits him afterwards. He hires a street hustler to be his diciple and after the third kill, he finds himself in a difficult position because hi...( read more)s anonymity is about to be revealed and because he's getting emotionally involved. Nicolas Cage was great as always and I thought it was reall weird to see him with that hairstyle. This is a great action movie.
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