Bangkok Dangerous (18)
Time Out rating:
<strong>Rating: </strong>2/5
Time Out says
Thu Sep 4 2008
‘Bangkok Dangerous’ arrives on these shores trailed by terrible Stateside reviews, one of the worst marketing campaigns in recent memory and the kind of advance word-of-mouth usually reserved for Thai prison parolees. A remake of an Asian actioner, the film follows Nicolas Cage’s taciturn hitman as he struggles to get out of the assassination game.The surprise is that it’s really not that bad: it’s punchy and efficiently directed, and in those brief moments where Cage drops the grimace and stops shooting people he reminds us what a likeable actor he was before action heroism beckoned. None of this compensates for the overfamiliar plotline, the underdeveloped side characters, the breakbeat soundtrack, the boring shootouts and a general air of overbaked silliness. But it helps.
Author: Tom Huddleston
Release details
Rated:
18
UK release:
Fri Sep 5 2008
Duration:
100 mins
Cast and crew
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Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Charlie Yeung, Panward Hemmanee








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