Rotten
While the film includes several exciting, creatively shot action scenes, the drama is otherwise so shopworn that the violent climax is a relief.
Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader
Bangkok Dangerous
It's all in the execution.
2008 · 1h 39m · R
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Oxide Pang Chun
,
Danny Pang Phat
Overview
When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok, Joe meets street kid Kong and he becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, he asks Joe to train him up in the deadly arts and unwittingly becomes a target of a band of killers.
Director and cast
- Oxide Pang Chun Director
- Danny Pang Phat Director
- Nicolas Cage as Joe
- Shahkrit Yamnarm as Kong
- Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei as Fon
- Panward Hemmanee as Aom
- Nirattisai Kaljaruek as Surat
- Dom Haetrakul as Aran
- Tuck Napaskorn as Kong's Brother
- Steve Baldocchi as Michigan
- Chris Heebink as USC
- James With as Chicago
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
8%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Tediously monotonous.
Christy Lemire, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Rotten
Cage 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.
Drew Toal, Time Out New York
Rotten
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.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
Awatchable, but dull action flick with not enough body count to satisfy the average mixed martial arts fanboy.
Tony Wong, Toronto Star
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