Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 94
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 86
With murky cinematography, a meandering pace, a dull storyline, and rather wooden performances, The Pang Brothers' Hollywood remake of Bangkok Dangerous is unsuccessful.
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 16
With murky cinematography, a meandering pace, a dull storyline, and rather wooden performances, The Pang Brothers' Hollywood remake of Bangkok Dangerous is unsuccessful.
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Original Bangkok Dangerous directors Danny and Oxide Pang return to familiar territory with this remake of their own popular 1999 thriller about a ruthless hitman (Nicolas Cage) who travels to Bangkok in order to carry out four crucial jobs. During the course of his missions, the triggerman falls in love with a pretty local girl while also forming a friendly bond with his young errand boy. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Cast
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Nicolas Cage
Joe -
Charlie Young
Fon -
Chakrit Yamnarm
Kong -
Panward Hemmanee
Aom -
Dom Hetrakul
Aran -
Nirattisai Kaljaruek
Surat -
Tuck Napaskorn
Kong's brother
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All Critics (96) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (86) | DVD (11)
While the film includes several exciting, creatively shot action scenes, the drama is otherwise so shopworn that the violent climax is a relief.
Top CriticCage is believable as the brooding lone-wolf gunman, but the "hit man screwing himself by growing a conscience on his final kill" ploy needs to be put down for good.
This is as stale as Tuesday's Phad Thai, from its exhausted mythos of the surgically efficient, omnipotent hit man to the training scenes in which Joe explains the trade to the new guy, to the inevitable betrayals of the third act.
Awatchable, but dull action flick with not enough body count to satisfy the average mixed martial arts fanboy.
There's a charming restaurant scene, some nifty hand-to-hand combat and the cast is great looking. But pretty much all the things that made the original so original are filtered out of this un-original.
Bankgok Ridiculous is more like it.
A promising film about a hit man that ultimately gets wacked because its star isn't suited for the role at all.
At six foot plus, with his hair-plug mullet and his ice-white teeth, Cage sticks out like a sore thumb among the tiny Thai citizens, making for the most conspicuous hitman since Agent 47 rocked the bald head 'n' barcode combination.
This has the look of a cheap quickie foreign film, not unlike a Hong Kong action film.
Between all the dates and dinners, Bangkok almost ends up being as less thriller and more travelogue; by the hour mark, there are literally more gulps than gunshots.
A by-the-numbers retread that's ill-conceived as an action vehicle for Cage.
o Nicolas Cage na periferei tis ektos eleghoy sapoynoperikes toy moytes kai ti geloia malloyra toy, se ena pompodi poiitikistiko ahtarma, poy bromaei ap' opoy ki an ton piaseis
The burnt out assassin shtick is old and tired.
[Cage is] funless, scowly, grim, and steroidally impervious to the fleshy and salacious good cheer that surrounds him.
Tediously monotonous.
The film isn't overtly heavy-handed in its violence, but it doesn't provoke enough surprises to keep the mind from drifting -- a poison pill for an action film.
A perfectly uninvolving tale of errors acknowledged and manhood proved.
It's garbage. Cage better be careful. If he keeps this up, he'll wind up just like Val Kilmer doing straight to DVD junk.
Nicolas Cage parece determinado a sabotar a própria carreira... e muitos outros atores já teriam, em seu lugar, sido rebaixados a produções lançadas diretamente em DVD
Not to be a contrarian, but as predictable as the movie is, its events often feel as if there were no alternative. The Pang brothers, besides being artisans of action and suspense, tell a good story -- or maybe I'm simply suffering from heat and Hurricane
Neutered, but pretty, and lacking any real development, this is the cinematic equivalent of a eunuch whose voice unfortunately broke pre-castration
Ominous maybe, but never dangerous
This one may have oozed on over into September, but it's every bit as bad as the previous month's studio-floor sweepings.
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Its not Cages best film but its average, very average.....and slightly dull.
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