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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Bangkok Dangerous (2008): Dir: The Pang Brothers / Cast: Nicolas Cage, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Nirattisai Kaljaruek, Panward Hemmanee, Charlie Yeung: Action thriller about placement. Nicolas Cage plays an assassin in Bangkok who wishes to get out of the business. Problem is he gets involved with outsiders. He becomes romantically interested in an Asian girl who works at a pharmacy. Directed by the Pang Brothers with a lot of repetition and a surprise ending that doesn't justify a whole lot. The film exists mainly as a parade of bullets and mindless violence all done as stylistically as possible. Cage does well as someone wishing to return to normality. He is eventually placed at a crossroad where he can either gain freedom or grant another their freedom. The conclusion is a downer and pretty much wrecks the film. Shahkrit Yamnam is interesting as Cage's chosen errand boy. Cage will train him but the results land them both in hot water when they are targeted. The villains exist to be shot dead. The leader is played by Nirattisai Kaljaruek and he is as lifeless as the bodies he leaves behind. Finally there is a cardboard role by Panward Hemmanee as a dancer. The production is on par and one of the few good points of this deadbeat film. Pointless onslaught of carnage presents nothing more than the umpteenth action snooze fest that is only dangerous to common sense. Score: 5 / 10

With "Bangkok Dangerous," Hong Kong's Pang Brothers breathed new life into an old story with a remake of their own 2000 film of the same title. While the earlier film was entirely Asian, the brothers hired American film star Nicholas Cage and reworked the original characters and story for the remake. The result is a gritty, fast moving action flick that breaks no new ground, but will hold viewers' attention with an Asian take on a familiar gangster tale.Cage is Joe, an aging professional hit man, who heads for Thailand to take on his last four assignments before retirement. A laconic loner, Cage lives by rules that dictate no personal involvement, and he routinely cleans up after a job by eliminating any co-workers. Inexplicably, Joe violates his rules in Bangkok, not only becoming friend and mentor to his assistant, Kong, played by handsome Thai actor Shahkrit Yamnarm, but also becoming romantically involved with a deaf-mute pharmacist, sensitively portrayed by Hong Kong actress Charlie Yeung. While softening his posture with Kong could be understood as a passing of the torch before his retirement, the romance with Yeung is entirely out of character, and even Cage seems uncomfortable in his scenes with the much younger actress. The pair are an odd couple, and the romance completely implausible. With Joe's lack of either Thai or sign language skills and her inability to speak or hear or understand English, viewers will wonder how they communicate at all. Needless to say, after Joe violates his own professional rules by befriending his assistant and romancing a deaf-mute pharmacist, the game changes drastically.Although some scenes were shot in the famous floating market, the seedy side of Bangkok is emphasized and figures prominently throughout the film; this is not the Bangkok of temples and palaces, and the Thai tourist board was undoubtedly displeased. The dark grainy cinematography by Decha Srimantra further emphasizes the shady side of the Thai capital. In one interesting sequence, the Pangs mimic the Zapruder footage of the Kennedy assassination to good effect. Cage gives a solid, if unexciting, performance and looks appropriately tired and pasty. Cage again proves himself an able action star and holds the film's focus; his Asian support is largely unexceptional, although both Shahkrit and Charlie are attractive performers. The Pangs have brought an Asian eye to a tired American story and gave it a fresh look. A relatively short film, "Bangkok Dangerous" should satisfy Cage fans and those seeking a fast-paced action movie, who can overlook flaws in the script and character development.

Joe, an international hit man who follows a simple code, arrives in Bangkok for his last contract - four kills and then retirement. He hires Kong, a local street hustler, to run his errands, and he gets to work. By the second hit, Joe has started violating his four rules, losing his anonymity, leaving behind traces, and getting emotionally involved. Only one rule remains intact: don't ask questions. Can Joe regain control and get out alive....If you are a Nicolas Cage fan his films always lie in two camps, the one where he puts in a good performance and people seem to like, or the one you know will be critically mauled, but you know you'll like anyway.And this one falls into the latter category. Its easy to understand why it failed and critiqued so badly, it looks cheap, Cage looks asleep half the time, and it's always a bad idea for a director to remake a film by themselves, its as if they owe a debt the their original film so make this one half heartedly, see also: The Vanishing.But it's short, there are a few good set pieces, and cages hair puts in the best performance ever.If you don't think Cage is one of the most entertaining actors working today, you will probably hate this.But if your a fan, you'll cope with this misstep.

Bangkok Dangerous stars Nicolas Cage as Joe, a typical movie hit-man in a typical "one last job" story. Joe can feel himself starting to get soft and knows that it's time to get out of the game. But he goes to Bangkok for one last client, a powerful gangster who wants Joe to commit four murders. Part of Joe's routine is to get a local on his side to help with hit-man-related errands. Enter the pickpocket Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), who becomes more than just an employee for Joe. As anyone who has ever seen a movie like this before knows immediately, Joe will eventually trust Kong enough to teach him his techniques with ridiculously clichéd lessons like "You don't pull the trigger, you squeeze it." And by breaking the well-established rule that hit men aren't allowed to have friends, Joe will put them all in jeopardy. Along the way, Kong and Joe both fall in love with women along the way, the former with a dancer and the latter with a deaf-mute pharmacist who seems to be there simply to prove that she can develop more of an interesting character with no lines than Cage can with an entire script nowadays. Fast-forward to a dinner scene between the mumbling Joe and the mute object of his affection is one of the most painful scenes I've seen. The whole relationship sub-plot felt incredibly forced and showed a lack of chemistry between the two of them.Joe is not only the kind of part that the Cage of the 1990s could knock out in his sleep; it actually looks like that might be his acting technique for this particular role. And that's the big problem. I think he was miscast and I couldn't quite get his motive on this role. Bangkok Dangerous is so deadly dull that it's really not even worth writing or reading about, much less taking the time to see. The main plot of the film, the fourth hit gone wrong, doesn't really kick in until the final reel. The set-up is so slowly paced that even the critical part of my brain that could sort of recognize that the final sequence had some well-staged action was too tired to care. Cage has gone from fascinating actor to action star to cinematic valium. This film reminded me of straight-to-DVD actions films we see nowadays starring Steven Seagal, Wesley Snipes or Cuba Gooding Jr.