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Chakrit Yamnarm, Dom Hetrakul, Charlie Young, Panward Hemmanee, Nirattisai KaljaruekDirectors: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):
1. Nicolas Cage plays a hit man named Joe
2. Poor Joe - he has to go through the whole movie with Cage's bad hairstyle
3. Joe has rules that make him the best in the hit man business
4. People depend on Joe to do his job, get paid, and disappear.
5. We often wish that 4. above would apply to Cage also
6. Joe heads to Bangkok for a four-hitter for a man named Surat.
7. One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble as he decides to break his own rules
8. Some rules aren't meant to be broken
9. Best ending for Cage in recent times.
This movie is about a hit man with an extremely high achievement rating. He owes his success to his personal set of rules, which don't allow for friends, relationships, loose ends or sticking around in the business for too long.
For some inexplicable reason, Joe decides to deviate from the rules while on duty in Bangkok, and finds himself in all sorts of trouble.
Cage does a pretty good job as the heroin-using, dour hit man, once you can get past what appears to be a dead animal splayed out on his head and down his neck. The real star however is the scene stealing Shahkrit Yamnarm as his disposable sidekick Kong.
Action wise the movie is okay, except for the scenes shot in blue and red lighting where you can't really see what's going on. The romantic parts are sweet at first, but the sight of Cage doing goo-goo eyes may be upsetting to some viewers. The plot requires as little thought as possible, as it doesn't really make much sense.
Recommended for fans of action-crime movies, and people with a morbid fascination for Cage's hairstyles.
Rated: 3.5 stars
Amanda Richards
1. Nicolas Cage plays a hit man named Joe
2. Poor Joe - he has to go through the whole movie with Cage's bad hairstyle
3. Joe has rules that make him the best in the hit man business
4. People depend on Joe to do his job, get paid, and disappear.
5. We often wish that 4. above would apply to Cage also
6. Joe heads to Bangkok for a four-hitter for a man named Surat.
7. One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble as he decides to break his own rules
8. Some rules aren't meant to be broken
9. Best ending for Cage in recent times.
This movie is about a hit man with an extremely high achievement rating. He owes his success to his personal set of rules, which don't allow for friends, relationships, loose ends or sticking around in the business for too long.
For some inexplicable reason, Joe decides to deviate from the rules while on duty in Bangkok, and finds himself in all sorts of trouble.
Cage does a pretty good job as the heroin-using, dour hit man, once you can get past what appears to be a dead animal splayed out on his head and down his neck. The real star however is the scene stealing Shahkrit Yamnarm as his disposable sidekick Kong.
Action wise the movie is okay, except for the scenes shot in blue and red lighting where you can't really see what's going on. The romantic parts are sweet at first, but the sight of Cage doing goo-goo eyes may be upsetting to some viewers. The plot requires as little thought as possible, as it doesn't really make much sense.
Recommended for fans of action-crime movies, and people with a morbid fascination for Cage's hairstyles.
Rated: 3.5 stars
Amanda Richards
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is one of the worst films I have watched for some time. The acting is poor and the storyline ropey at the best of times. Fight scenes did not make much sense . Joe (Cage) is supposed to be the best in the business but sometimes rather than shooting a guy once or twice he needs to spray the entire room with bullets and even then just about hits his target. The water cooler scene near the end is a perfect example of this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Despite boasting one of the oddest posters of recent years (just [I]what is Nicolas Cage doing with his arm - searching for his credit card or scratching his armpit?), the Pang Brothers' remake of their breakout hit Bangkok Dangerous doesn't quite deserve the critical drubbing it got in theatres. It's no great shakes either, a mediocre by the numbers effort only very loosely related to their 1999 original as Cage's professional hitman and his latest, er, interesting hairstyle relocates from Prague to Bangkok and finds himself breaking all his own rules as he befriends his expendable messenger (a very personable Shakrit Yamnarm) and falls for Charlie Yeung's appealing deaf chemist. It replaces the original's frantic energy with something more akin to pure old-fashioned sentimental 50s b-movie stuff while the action scenes tick all the usual boxes - half-hearted training montages, a couple of brutally efficient hits, the one that goes wrong and the big potentially fatal job that makes him the target of his employers - exploiting the occasional tourist traps like a floating market for a boat chase and temples and restaurants for the odd romantic rendezvous. It doesn't help that a jetlagged and underpowered Cage either hadn't acclimatized or was simply in bad shape when they shot the action setpieces, which are never good enough to raise the film a notch above routine. Yet while it never does anything unexpected or breaks out of cliché, it does it efficiently enough to pass master for an undemanding hour-and-a-half or so.
The DVD also includes a less convincing happier ending along with a what-a-great-time-we-all-had making of featurette.
The DVD also includes a less convincing happier ending along with a what-a-great-time-we-all-had making of featurette.
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It's all in the execution.?
Bangkok Dangerous stars Nicholas Cage as a hitman who travels to Bangkok to complete an assignment which will change his life forever... Read more
Published 28 days ago by S. F. husseiny
DVD
This is not one of Nicholas Cages better movie, but it was watchable, i'me still not impressed with bluray, but I still buy them.
It arrived on time and was well packaged.
It arrived on time and was well packaged.
Published 20 months ago by Mike
Cage gets flushed
Cage must be greasing the right palms - who would employ him otherwise? He does not cut it as a hard man, nor as an assassin, nor as a romantic lead, nor as a man of intelligence. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2010 by Don Leavey
Avoid!!!!!! Picture quality is terrible!!!
This has to be the worst blu-ray ever!!!!!!
I'm not a fan of Nicolas Cage in general (I would happily see him replaced in all of his films) but he has had quite a few... Read more
I'm not a fan of Nicolas Cage in general (I would happily see him replaced in all of his films) but he has had quite a few... Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2010 by A. Nouillan
mr cage
great film but poor qutaily just like the dvd verison it was not very clear so don't be stocked when you buy this
Published on 4 Feb 2010 by Mr. Jrd Roche
not too bad
a typial hit man set up film but seen better. some very nice girls and a tour of bangcock gave the film an added bonus which kept things interesting. Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2010 by G. Williams
Nice views of Bangkok
Bangkok Dangerous (2007) is one of a few select films to have been filmed in Bangkok and have beautiful shots of the city sights in a cinematic format. Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2010 by Miami
Not great, but not bad.
Like most SE Asian action flicks that get given the Hollywood remake treatment, this fails in comparison to the original. Read more
Published on 29 July 2009 by M. Huxley
IT'S NO CON AIR!!!
This is not one of Mr Cages better films come to that has he done one lately the answer is no not since Con Air which was a good action film. Read more
Published on 24 April 2009 by Jason Thorne
Slower than a dim witted goat.
I had intended to see this at the cinema when it came out, I am glad I missed it. Promoted as an action film I expected some action, there is very little, nor is there ever much... Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2009 by genejoke
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