An assassin (Nic Cage) travels to Bangkok, Thailand to take care of a few jobs but while he is there bonds with a student he trains and falls for a local woman.'Bangkok Dangerous' tries to be a lot of things and fails miserably at most of them, apart from the action. Nicholas Cage just cant do soppy drama, romance, comedy or indeed any other form of acting that requires emotion and for this reason this movie doesn't pull off the drama or romance. He does however do some good action flicks and this unfortunately isn't one. Don't get me wrong the action is fairly exciting, good chases and some gun fights etc but it tries to do too much other stuff besides this and in my opinion it ruins and takes away from the action. Give this a miss unless your just in the mood to see someone kick some ass.
Pros - Pretty sweet action scenes, and not bad from Danny Pang from the Pang brothers who traditionally focuses on horror flicks. This is the only redeeming feature of this film, and it only just pulls it off.
Cons - Tries to be what it cant be and indeed cant do, an action/drama/romance directed by a horror movie specialist and acted by a great action star who cant smile or do soppy drama. Unfortunately it gets dull and boring watching this movie try to do these things and takes time away from what could have been more action and gun fights etc. Poor film and if it weren't for the action scenes i would have felt completely ripped off, i now only feel moderately ripped off which isn't too bad.
2/5 Jandals = Its actually funny watching Cage trying to be romanticWatch the trailer for 'Bangkok Dangerous' Here
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