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Bangkok Dangerous (2000)

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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 5

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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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A hired killer gives up his career for love in this stylish crime drama from Thailand. Kong (Pawalit Mongkolpisit) is a hit man who never speaks as he carries out his deadly assignments. Kong has begun to grow tired of his life of crime, and becomes infatuated with Fon (Premsinee Ratanasopha), a beautiful young woman who works as an assistant in a drugstore. As Kong tries to win the affections of Fon, he decides to turn against the gangsters who control him, and use his skills to earn his

Mar 5, 2002

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All Critics (37) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (19) | DVD (3)

An audiovisually complex drama that's better than slick, though it feels pointless-another homage to a kind of filmmaking that's had more than its share.

March 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Bangkok Dangerous mixes mindless violence, sappy romance, and philosophical pretentiousness. On the whole, it does the first better than the other two.

September 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
Film.com
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Enjoyable in an undemanding way, and with a few interesting flourishes.

June 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Scene after thrilling scene, this movie takes your breath away.

February 1, 2002 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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It's long on style but short on substance.

January 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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If you're looking for something different, the movie certainly qualifies. How many visually snappy Thai urban romance/crime thrillers have you seen lately?

December 13, 2001 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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The movie, about a top-notch hitman who takes on an apprentice, starts off promisingly enough but winds up bleeding out about halfway through.

January 9, 2009 Comment
Buzzine Magazine

The pacing is usually clumsy and transitions are clunky. There are two bravura sequences not quite worth the price of submission . . . other scenes suggest that the Pang Brothers really want to make a new horror film, not retread stagnant action plots.

October 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) | Comment
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

No frills at all [on the DVD release} and a marketing attempt to garner some extra revenue by capitalizing on the [upcoming] Nic Cage version.

September 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

Doesn't make much of a lasting impression except as a case study in the dreariness of style-over-substance filmmaking when said style is the height of derivativeness.

August 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

...an old-as-the-hills hit man story jazzed up by flashy visuals and a charismatic turn by the very good looking lead.

August 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

Seriously impressive.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

The poorly worked plot and lack of decent dialogue makes you wonder if the title Bangkok Monotonous isn't more appropriate.

January 30, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

Written, directed and edited by the Pang brothers, Bangkok Dangerous delivers 105 minutes of explosive, stylised, bone-splintering violence that leaves little room for dialogue.

December 23, 2002 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Style-rich, substance-weak.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

The film moves at a dizzying pace, as it moves either backward or forward with no rhyme or reason.

March 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The Pangs' film is leavened with charming pathos and romance. This is a sure-footed, watchable film that lingers in the mind.

March 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

A worthy attempt to add an emotional dimension to the standard bullet play that characterises most action movies.

February 26, 2002 Full Review Source: FilmFour.com | Comment
FilmFour.com

Expect the Pang brothers receive a call from a Hollywood studio soon.

February 17, 2002 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment (1)

Combined with the rather touching romance that's trying to bloom between rivers of blood, the film is more than a little unsettling ... and unsuccessful.

February 14, 2002 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Bangkok Dangerous

Action thriller about the exploits of a death mute hitman working for a seedy Thai gangster. Despite the interesting disability the story doesn't herald too many surprises. But the film has enough style, heart and bloody gun-play to distinguish itself among other contract-killer flicks out there and it's head and

May 29, 2011
WrenchLT
Lee ?

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Magnificent Thailand action movie I ever seen with a deaf mute assassin. The imagery is beautiful and imaginative, excellent editing and vibrant colors. The cast was good, especially Pavarit Mongkolpisit playing Kong, the deaf assassin, he did a fantastic job, showing a full range of emotion without uttering a word.

February 1, 2009
deano
Dean McKenna

Super Reviewer

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