Bangkok Dangerous
Bangkok Dangerous
R | 04 September 2008 (USA)
Bangkok Dangerous Trailers

When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok, Joe meets street kid Kong and he becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, he asks Joe to train him up in the deadly arts and unwittingly becomes a target of a band of killers.

Reviews
adonis98-743-186503

A hit-man who's in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs violates his personal code when he falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy. Bangkok Dangerous is not a masterpiece or anything but i still don't get the hate it had a really cool score, some gory sequences and the acting wasn't that bad to begin with this is probably one of Cage's last good films if you ask me i liked some of action sequences for example the one with the bike where he was chasing that guy was really cool or even the ending which is something that probably anyone could see it coming it still worked on it's own and that's why i'm gonna give it an 9/10

... View More
Sumit Tomer

Watched the movie today, and found very interesting, but when the movie reaches to end, I saw CAGE committed suicide by shooting himself, he could kill the bad guy by shooting him instead of shooting himself with him, this is not a perfect end of this movie, I felt very sad, it is unbelievable and poor for me, I watched lots of Hollywood movie, but never saw such thing in any movie, in most movies bad guy got killed or arrested, I never saw any movie in which main character committed suicide, in movie "I AM LEGEND" will smith kill himself, but their was a need for this, if he didn't killed himself, he would not save the antidote and the lady, The movie is good, you should watch first, then post your reviews, Thank you for reading.

... View More
Leofwine_draca

BANGKOK DANGEROUS tells a way-too-familiar storyline that'll have you reaching for your DVD of LEON before you're even halfway through. In essence, it's LEON transplanted to Thailand, with Nicolas Cage (and his exceptionally dodgy hair) retiring to the Thai capital to take on one last job before he finds himself stricken by his conscience. What goes from there will surprise absolutely nobody watching.This film should have been a lot better than it was; after all, the Pang Brothers are known for their innovative style, so you'd expect at least decent action sequences. The ones we're given are half-decent, if that; there are some good stunts here and there, and some nicely vicious touches (the bit on the boat, for example), but for the majority of the running time it's strictly par for the course. The film as a whole seems to be content to go through the motions and it does feel like it's missing its soul.Cage (who sleepwalks through the part, incidentally) takes time out from his hit-man duties to romance a shop assistant, and boy, did they go wrong with this particular sub-plot. Cage's intentions seem akin to those of a stalker, and instead of being romantic, the whole part of this story feels desperately sad on Cage's part, like he's a middle-aged lech grabbing out for one last thing. The whole film closes with an out-of-left-field ending which seems a little too far-fetched, and as a whole it's completely forgettable, like one of Seagal's straight-to-DVD efforts.

... View More
Floated2

Bangkok Dangerous stars Nicolas Cage as Joe, a typical movie hit-man in a typical "one last job" story. Joe can feel himself starting to get soft and knows that it's time to get out of the game. But he goes to Bangkok for one last client, a powerful gangster who wants Joe to commit four murders. Part of Joe's routine is to get a local on his side to help with hit-man-related errands. Enter the pickpocket Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), who becomes more than just an employee for Joe. As anyone who has ever seen a movie like this before knows immediately, Joe will eventually trust Kong enough to teach him his techniques with ridiculously clichéd lessons like "You don't pull the trigger, you squeeze it." And by breaking the well-established rule that hit men aren't allowed to have friends, Joe will put them all in jeopardy. Along the way, Kong and Joe both fall in love with women along the way, the former with a dancer and the latter with a deaf-mute pharmacist who seems to be there simply to prove that she can develop more of an interesting character with no lines than Cage can with an entire script nowadays. Fast-forward to a dinner scene between the mumbling Joe and the mute object of his affection is one of the most painful scenes I've seen. The whole relationship sub-plot felt incredibly forced and showed a lack of chemistry between the two of them.Joe is not only the kind of part that the Cage of the 1990s could knock out in his sleep; it actually looks like that might be his acting technique for this particular role. And that's the big problem. I think he was miscast and I couldn't quite get his motive on this role. Bangkok Dangerous is so deadly dull that it's really not even worth writing or reading about, much less taking the time to see. The main plot of the film, the fourth hit gone wrong, doesn't really kick in until the final reel. The set-up is so slowly paced that even the critical part of my brain that could sort of recognize that the final sequence had some well-staged action was too tired to care. Cage has gone from fascinating actor to action star to cinematic valium. This film reminded me of straight-to-DVD actions films we see nowadays starring Steven Seagal, Wesley Snipes or Cuba Gooding Jr.

... View More