Bangkok Dangerous is a 2008 crime film written and directed by the Pang Brothers and starring Nicolas Cage. It is a remake of the Pangs' 1999 debut film of the same name, a Thai film for which Cage's production company, Saturn Films, purchased the remake rights. Known by its working title, Big Hit in Bangkok, and also as Time to Kill, it began filming in Bangkok in August 2006, with locations that include Soi Cowboy.
The film was financed by Initial Entertainment Group, with Lionsgate acquiring its North America distribution rights.
The film was released in North America on September 5, 2008.
"Bangkok Dangerous" Review
In Theaters: Sept. 5, 2008
Runtime: 99 minutes
Directed by: Oxide and Danny Pang
MPAA Rating: R for violence, language, and some sexuality
My Rating: 6.5/10
Cast:
Nicolas cage as Joe
hkrit Yamnarm... Kong
Charlie Yeung... Fon (as Charlie Young)
Panward Hemmanee... Aom
Nirattisai Kaljaruek... Surat
Dom Hetrakul... Aran
Tuck Napaskorn... Kong's Brother
Steve Baldocchi... Michigan
Bangkok Dangerous is not so much a crime thriller as it is a slow-moving profile of a depressed hitman. It’s the kind of movie you might watch if you came across it surfing around at 3 a.m.
I wonder what Nicolas Cage was thinking when he made this movie, which features his droney voiceover narration and lots of close-up shots of him pondering the fact that he kills people for a living. I have to think it went something like this: I’d like to go to Thailand. Why not make a movie there and see the sights in the process?
More after the jump…
Cage plays Joe, an anonymous, globe-trotting assassin who takes out targets precisely and succinctly, gets paid, and moves on. He has four rules and, presumably, no conscience. But he’s ready to get out of the business, and he sees an opp to do just that in Bangkok, where he’s called on to kill four people.
But as the job progresses, he makes nice with a cute, deaf-mute shop girl (Charlie Yeung) and bonds with a local boy (Shahkrit Yamnarm) hired to run his errands. Why Joe suddenly decides to get human is a mystery. We’re never really clued in as to why he picks now to get a conscience.
Anyway, there’s a lot of pensive moodiness in this movie — shots of Cage scoping out the target, sitting in his rental house, having awkward dinners with the shop girl — and not a lot of action, aside from a couple of short motorcycle stints and a goofy boat chase through a floating market.
The few scenes of proposed levity don’t really work. At least, I guess it was supposed to be funny when Cage tried spicy Thai food, and the shop girl laughed at him.
I didn’t see the original Pang Brothers film, on which this one is based, but hope to heck it was better than this one and with fewer cliches.
You know how the beginning of Tropic Thunder starts? With the parody trailers of the guys’ movies? Just take out Ben Stiller and Robert Downey, Jr., and put Nic Cage in there. That’s what I was thinking during Bangkok Dangerous. It’s a big parody of crime-thriller movies.
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