Bangkok Dangerous

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Bangkok Dangerous

R

2008

1h 40m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

Drama

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Remorseless assassin Joe (Nicolas Cage) is in Thailand to complete a series of contract killings for a crime boss called Surat (Nirattisai Kaljaruek). He hires a street punk named Kong (Shahkrit Yamnam) to run errands for him, all the while planning to kill the youth at the conclusion of his assignment. Instead, Joe becomes Kong's unlikely mentor, and begins a tentative romance with a local shop girl. But as Joe begins to let his guard down, Surat decides it is time to clean house.

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Critics Consensus

With murky cinematography, a meandering pace, a dull storyline, and rather wooden performances, The Pang Brothers' Hollywood remake of Bangkok Dangerous is unsuccessful.

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Joshua Katzman

Chicago Reader

12/08/2008

While the film includes several exciting, creatively shot action scenes, the drama is otherwise so shopworn that the violent climax is a relief.

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Christy Lemire

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

10/18/2008

Tediously monotonous.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

10/18/2008

1.5/5

[Cage is] funless, scowly, grim, and steroidally impervious to the fleshy and salacious good cheer that surrounds him.

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

10/16/2019

D+

This lifeless remake of a 1999 film by the Pang brothers is a predictable and rather down-beat film that brings out the worst in the action genre.

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Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

10/15/2012

3/10

A promising film about a hit man that ultimately gets wacked because its star isn't suited for the role at all.

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Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

10/14/2012

2/5

At six foot plus, with his hair-plug mullet and his ice-white teeth, Cage sticks out like a sore thumb among the tiny Thai citizens, making for the most conspicuous hitman since Agent 47 rocked the bald head 'n' barcode combination.

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al x

@RT52718974 07/20/2025

Great action movie with some good philosophy and twist. Had me watching all the way. Not a dull moment.

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Lou M

@RT98637893 07/11/2025

One of the best Nicolas Cage movies out there. Don't understand the bad reviews. I enjoyed it from start to finish

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Alex L

@RT99545757 06/14/2024

Terrible, awful , inconsequential. Watch the original movie

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Robson C

@RT82519826 08/12/2023

Joe é um experiente assassino profissional que chega em Bangkok para realizar 4 assassinatos para um chefão do crime local. Ele contrata o jovem Kong para ser o seu ajudante, mas acaba por se afeiçoar a ele, tornando-se uma espécie de mentor. Ao mesmo tempo, Joe se apaixona por uma jovem vendedora de uma farmácia que é surda-muda. Isto vai levando a questionar a sua vida. O filme é correto, tem boas sequências de ação. Cage encarna muito bem Joe, mostrando-se frio e distante e, depois, aos poucos se importando com aquelas vidas que ele tocou, mesmo de maneira involuntária. Como o único diferencial é Cage, temos um filme bem feito mas que também não quer ser mais do que entretenimento.

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Jack O

@RT29143273 06/19/2023

Another Nicolas Cage film which I don't like and that is Bangkok Dangerous. Like I said to Snake Eyes that this film is boring. I mean it's not bad it's just that it's not good a good film but this one, this one is beyond boring. I watched this about once on YouTube and the part where it's bright red I just started rubbing my eyes cause it's flashing so bright and the part where Nicolas says 'Again'. The storyline is so dull, the cinematography is murky, it's a failure at the box office and there's nothing more I can about it, I just don't remember it all. FXXK!

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Georgan G

@RT98616417 05/29/2023

Nothing special about this hit man, other than how he chooses to end the film.

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Synopsis

Remorseless assassin Joe (Nicolas Cage) is in Thailand to complete a series of contract killings for a crime boss called Surat (Nirattisai Kaljaruek). He hires a street punk named Kong (Shahkrit Yamnam) to run errands for him, all the while planning to kill the youth at the conclusion of his assignment. Instead, Joe becomes Kong's unlikely mentor, and begins a tentative romance with a local shop girl. But as Joe begins to let his guard down, Surat decides it is time to clean house.

Director: Oxide Chun Pang, Danny Pang
Producer: Jason Shuman, William Sherak, Nicolas Cage, Norman Golightly
Screenwriter: Jason Richman
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Virtual Studios, Saturn Films, Initial Entertainment Group, Blue Star Pictures, Lionsgate Television
Rating: R (Some Sexuality|Language|Violence)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 5, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 9, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $15.3M
Runtime: 1h 40m