Neutered, but pretty, and lacking any real development, this is the cinematic equivalent of a eunuch whose voice unfortunately broke pre-castration
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09/11/08
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
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Reviews Counted:87
Fresh:8
Rotten:79
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: With murky cinematography, a meandering pace, a dull storyline, and rather wooden performances, The Pang Brothers' Hollywood remake of Bangkok Dangerous is unsuccessful.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $15,195,406
Synopsis: The second film from Hong Kong-born twin directors Danny and Oxide Pang to earn a U.S. remake (after 2002's THE EYE), BANGKOK DANGEROUS differs in that, this time around, the brothers are doing the... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chakrit Yamnarm, Charlie Yeung, Charlie Young
Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Reviews for Bangkok Dangerous
Top CriticThe only reason to see a Nicolas Cage movie these days is to have a good laugh at his latest wig.
09/04/08
Pointless vanity project.
09/05/08
Heavy on the spice and cheap on the meat, Bangkok Dangerous adds plenty of Thai seasoning to the Hollywood lone-assassin recipe, but the result is only mildly pungent.
08/27/08
Top CriticOne night in Bangkok makes a hard critic %u2026 well, not humble, so much as bored.
09/06/08
But even if you don't tire of the relentless violence, you might want to call time on Cage's tough-but-sensitive übermensch.
09/05/08
Bankgok Ridiculous is more like it.
09/08/08
How do you borrow the best elements of The Transporter, The Karate Kid and Mission Impossible and end up with an unwatchable mess like this?
09/06/08
What Cage -- such a fine actor when the mood's upon him -- is doing wasting his time in listless junk like this is anybody's guess.
09/05/08
[Cage takes] the big bucks to star in slovenly, inert pulp of the sort no actor of his magnitude should be stooping to.
09/08/08
One day someone will make a film about a lone-wolf killer who gets offered One Last Job, turns it down, retires rich and lives happily ever after.
09/04/08
Hollywood came a-callin', and said [to the Pang brothers], 'Come work for us. We're pay you a sh*tload of money. All you have to do is sell us your souls.' And the brothers said yes.
09/07/08
For a man obsessed with The King -- he even married his daughter -- it makes sense that Cage has finally entered the fat Elvis act III of his career. I hope we don't read about him flat-lining on the commode, face down in the "Ghost Rider 3" script.
09/05/08
The Pang brothers’ remake of their slick 1999 calling card is saddled with both a morose voiceover from Cage and another of his now-trademark hairdon’ts.
09/05/08
This grainy shoot-’em-up is stuck in the Nineties, which means it is a decade ahead of Nicolas Cage’s mullet haircut.
09/05/08
[A] stylish but laborious thriller.
09/05/08
If Cage wants to use his clout as an actor and producer (he's credited with both here) to make down-and-dirty B-movies, then more power to him. But if the results are going to be this unbearable, he'd might as well crank out the Oscar-bait.
09/05/08
Just another cycle of bombast and boredom.
09/08/08
Cage from the first frame looks like someone who should be offered an antacid as quickly as possible, and one of prescription strength at that
09/05/08
Hollywood and the television industry have long since sucked what they require from the tropes and rhythms of Asian films, and parts of Bangkok Dangerous, far from seeming unfamiliar or freshly stylized, offer nothing that you couldn’t catch on CSI.
09/02/08
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March 01, 2009:
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January 04, 2009:
A toxic blend of hitman midlife crisis, homicidal existential angst and a little surprise sex tourism on the side, this arty assassin fare is held together by sheer force of personality grim reaper guru Cage, no matter how cranky the guy can be.
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January 03, 2009:
A toxic blend of hitman midlife crisis, homicidal existential angst and a little surprise sex tourism on the side, this arty assassin fare is held together by sheer force of personality grim reaper guru Cage, no matter how cranky the guy can be.
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January 03, 2009:
ActorsAndCrew.com: A toxic blend of hitman midlife crisis, homicidal existential angst and a little surprise sex tourism on the side, this arty assassin fare gels by sheer force of personality grim reaper guru Cage, no matter how cranky the guy can be.
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