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Action thriller starring Nicolas Cage. Joe (Cage) is a hitman who has recently arrived in Bangkok to kill four enemies of a cold-blooded crime boss named Surat (Nirattisai Kaljaruek). Joe hires a local pickpocket named Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm) as a go-between, with the intention of killing him once the assignment is over. However, after Kong provides Joe with valuable information about one of his targets, Joe decides to train the young man instead. As Joe's Bangkok assignment becomes more and more dangerous, he becomes involved in a relationship with a local deaf-mute girl.
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By Amanda Richards
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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
By G. Williams
Format:DVD
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. a particularly moving seen when the hit man is searching to connect with someone . he meets a girl who cannot speak but the emotions and feelings say enough for both of them to connect with each other without words.a very powerful scene.
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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Product arrived on time well packaged and undamaged.
Film is certainly not a classic but it has great cinematography excellent musical score and Nick Cage with some good... Read more
Film is certainly not a classic but it has great cinematography excellent musical score and Nick Cage with some good... Read more
Published 1 month ago by cm
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Don't waste your money
Broke my foot in New Zealand so bought this ex rental to try and provide some entertainment after work as my life was boring at the time. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Filmgirl
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good fun
Nick Cage is a great action hero and in this he is very tough. Shame there wasn't a bit more depth to it as it could have been a better film, but I guess feeling sympathy for a... Read more
Published 6 months ago by White Swan
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Underated
Brilliant movie!, yes it's different that's a good thing. I would recommend this one of his best, good storyline. I watch it again. Read more
Published 6 months ago by chris
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not Good
I started watching this film for the first time this evening on TV. However, it was so poor, that I changed channel, and started to watch "Bid TV" instead,,, that is how bad it is.
Published 6 months ago by A. King
5.0 out of 5 stars
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 on 12 Sep 2010 by Mike
1.0 out of 5 stars
One of the worst films I've seen for some time!
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 . Read more
Published on 12 April 2010 by MWA
1.0 out of 5 stars
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
1.0 out of 5 stars
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 Andyamn
5.0 out of 5 stars
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
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