Director: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Charlie Yeung and Shahkrit Yamnarm
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 98Mins
Tagline: "The Hitman Has Become The Target"
Meet Joe, a hired assassin, who does what he is told, and never fails at putting the bullet where it needs to be. But assassin Joe is lonely and tired of the monotonous life of killing people for money. So he decides to take one last job in Bangkok, before leaving it all behind him. In Bangkok, he takes several assignments, some involving transporting packages. If this is beginning to sound like transporter, it is because it’s very similar. The movie is actually a very formulaic action vehicle coping from every other action movie known. Well, back to the movie, Joe eventually finds out the people that hired him want him dead. So he must take them out before they kill him…wow...very original. In between this we have a turmoil going on with his emotional feelings for a mute girl he met in Bangkok.
In the end this movie had some, and I stress some, entertainment value. I was falling asleep in plenty of scenes where nothing was really happening. The movie is advertised as an action vehicle, yet it delivers very few action scenes. When you do get to see the action scenes, they are very bland and uninspiring. The ending, which I won’t ruin, was a little strange…I felt like I was watching a different film…At the end we have an unexpected ending for a very mediocre film. It’s as if the movie picked up in the last 15 min...A bit to late honestly. Aside the movie’s trailer, I will leave a review of the movie I found on YouTube, which I couldn’t agree more with.
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Charlie Yeung and Shahkrit Yamnarm
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 98Mins
Tagline: "The Hitman Has Become The Target"
Nicholas cage needs to stop making action movies. I swear the guy doesn’t have nor will ever have the action hero look. The only reason he is making 7-10 movies a year is due to his issue with bankruptcy, so he has to rely on making crummy movies like this one. Bangkok dangerous, while not bad, is just a very generic action vehicle that goes down the road of predictability, scene by scene. This movie is in fact a remake of an older movie done in Asia. I have not seen the Asian version, so I cannot give an opinion on it.
On the other hand, the American remake, I did see and I have very little of good to say of it. First, let me say that Nicholas Cage has perhaps the worst case of bad hair I have ever seen. He needs to recognize that he is losing hair; no treatment available can fix his bizarre hair. He needs to do the honorable thing and just shave it off, that’s what I did, and that’s what plenty of men who are losing hair eventually do. But until then, Cage’s hair will look like a rat is growing out of it, just like Steven Seagal.
Meet Joe, a hired assassin, who does what he is told, and never fails at putting the bullet where it needs to be. But assassin Joe is lonely and tired of the monotonous life of killing people for money. So he decides to take one last job in Bangkok, before leaving it all behind him. In Bangkok, he takes several assignments, some involving transporting packages. If this is beginning to sound like transporter, it is because it’s very similar. The movie is actually a very formulaic action vehicle coping from every other action movie known. Well, back to the movie, Joe eventually finds out the people that hired him want him dead. So he must take them out before they kill him…wow...very original. In between this we have a turmoil going on with his emotional feelings for a mute girl he met in Bangkok. 
In the end this movie had some, and I stress some, entertainment value. I was falling asleep in plenty of scenes where nothing was really happening. The movie is advertised as an action vehicle, yet it delivers very few action scenes. When you do get to see the action scenes, they are very bland and uninspiring. The ending, which I won’t ruin, was a little strange…I felt like I was watching a different film…At the end we have an unexpected ending for a very mediocre film. It’s as if the movie picked up in the last 15 min...A bit to late honestly. Aside the movie’s trailer, I will leave a review of the movie I found on YouTube, which I couldn’t agree more with.
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