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Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

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Movie Info


Genre

Action, Drama, Thriller

Release Date

September 05, 2008

MPAA Rating

R

Duration

100 min.

Production Budget

$40 millions

Studio

Lions Gate Films

Official Site

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REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.    Readers  5 of 5 [Rate It]

Cast and Crew


Director

Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang

Producer

Norman Golightly, Graham King, William Sherak, Jason Shuman

Screenwriter

Jason Richman

Starring

  • Nicolas Cage as Joe
  • Shahkrit Yamnarm
  • Charlie Yeung
  • James With
  • Steve Baldocchi
  • Philip Waley
  • Shaun Delaney

Movie Story


The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok's intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard... just as Surat decides it's time to clean house.

Directors Oxide Pang and Danny Pang ("The Eye") paint an explosive picture of the Bangkok underworld, illuminated with neon and saturated in violence. Based on the Pang Brothers' wildly popular Hong Kong action film of the same name "Bangkok Dangerous" is written by Jason Richman.

Movie Stills (49 photos)


Nicolas Cage stars as Joe in Lions Gate Films' Bangkok Dangerous (2008). Photo credit by Chan Kam Chuen.
Nicolas Cage stars as Joe in Lions Gate Films' Bangkok Dangerous (2008). Photo credit by Chan Kam Chuen.

Reader's Reviews


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This movie looks great! I can't wait to see it, the trailer was very intense

posted by MovieGrl on Mar 31, 2008

good movie

posted by sezengul on Nov 15, 2008

So many people put this movie down, but i think it was perfect.

posted by Jenna on Apr 25, 2009
 
 

MOVIE REVIEWS BY CRITICS

“..dark, grim..”
by David Hiltbrand [Philadelphia Inquirer]
“..only mildly pungent..”
by Jordan Mintzer [Variety]
“..simply dreadful to look at..”
by Nathan Lee [NY Times]