Bangkok Dangerous (Single-Disc Edition)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Charlie Yeung, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Panward Hemmanee, Nirattisai KaljaruekDirector: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun
Studio: Lions Gate
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release: January 6th 2009
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A hitman whos in bangkok to pull off a series of jobs falls for a local woman & bonds with his errand boy. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 01/06/2009 Starring: Nicolas Cage Run time: 100 minutes Rating: R
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Plenty of action in this Nicolas Cage thriller by Ray Sipe - Rating: 3/5
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Watch the THAI ORIGINAL FILM Instead of This Garbage - Rating: 1/5
What was wrong with the Thai original of "Bangkok Dangerous"? Not flashy, superficial, and soul-less enough for Hollywood execs? Do yourself a favor, dear viewer--skip this awful Cage corruption and get your hands/eyes on the original Thai version of "Bangkok Dangerous," still widely available on DVD and really only a few years old. Sheesh--Hollywood: quit taking real art and turning it into vapid trash! Why is it in America that we can't leave well enough alone and have so much trouble appreciating and respecting other cultures and perspectives? Blech--pure dreck.
Not as terrible as the reviews suggest - Rating: 4/5
As a hitman identified only as "Joe" Nicholas Cage plays a hitman on his final job -- a 4 person hit that will net him enough money to retire. After years of living the invisible life of an assassin, Joe is worn out and worn down by his own dead-end life. The hit in Bangkok promises to be the one that can get him out of the game for good.
Problems arise when Joe encounters a young man who reminds him of his own younger, more eager self. Against his good judgement, Joe begins to train this young protegee in the arts of assassination. He also encounters a deaf native girl named Rain who brings out his longing to settle down into a normal life.
As Joe, Nicholas Cage appropriately dull-voiced and dead-eyed, a pale cypher of a man who is almost as dead as those he's put in the grave. Watching Cage's character flirt with life, one sees flashes of brilliance in the actor's performance. Behind his dead-eyed stare, Joe wants to life, to breathe, to love. In short, he wants to put his job behind him and just be a normal guy.
That, alas, is not to be when the 4th and final hit goes terribly wrong, forcing Joe to make a choice: walk away and let the hit go bad, or sacrifice his own life to save his young apprentice. While a bit predictable, Cage's canny performance saves the film and makes it all fall into place by time the end credits roll.
Not an action movie - Rating: 1/5
Cage supposedly a great killer, the likes of Bourne, all of the sudden does a 180, the scenes in Bangkok are slow, you don't know his motivation for taking a liking to his hired help, which previously we had seen that he kills without remorse, or why he falls for a mute girl. Also the supposed martial arts training was dumb, he should have at least taken some martial arts training. Couldn't finish watching the movie, the characters are so unlikable.
BANGKOK DANGEROUS (BLU RAY) - Rating: 3/5
I'VE WATCH BANGKOK DANGEROUS ON RENTAL DVD N DECIDE TO BUY THIS MOVIE ON
BLU RAY. THE STORY IS SO SO. PICTURE QUALITY IS A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED.
A LITTLE GRAINY THROUGH OUT THE MOVIE. AUDIO IN DTS HD MASTER 7.1
IS SUPERB.
