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38 out of 57 people found the following comment useful :-
Shockingly bad stuff!, 8 September 2008

Author: peter_okelly from United Kingdom

i went to watch this movie last night because I had a bad hangover and just needed to sit in front of stupidity on a screen. Usually, Nic Cage action flicks are cheesy but have some sort of entertainment value as he can act it up when he chooses to. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears in almost every scene. Even some local chavs behind me were laughing in disbelief. The montage scenes where he is taking the deaf and dumb girl out to dinner and stroking elephants were among the worst I've ever seen. Also, his smile is disturbing. Nic, what the hell's going on brother? Also, the Pang brothers were an edgy asset to film-making. I'm surprised that between them and Cage, they did not sit forward in the editing suite and say 'we can't release this crap!'

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29 out of 40 people found the following comment useful :-
Lame, boring and obvious, 9 September 2008

Author: azgalarneau from United States

I don't care how interesting the scenery is if you know the entire story arc in the first 45 seconds - and you haven't even watched the trailer. Nic Cage looks like a corpse and his acting isn't much better. The relationship that the film puts forward is as believable as a love affair between a squirrel and a stuffed alligator. Plus of course the story has Cage break every rule he says is important - but never offer a plausible motivation. Maybe the original was really something, but this version is dead on arrival and should be saved for the second DVD in a video night, when you want everyone to leave your house and let you get some sleep.

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70 out of 125 people found the following comment useful :-
I'd Rather be Punched in the Bangkok, 6 September 2008

Author: Bob Bobson from United States

For starters this movie was awful. Where to begin actually reviewing it though? Maybe Nicholas Cage's bad acting, and his ever-present voice-over(find me three movies he's done that don't have reading a voice-over and I'd be amazed), the recycled plot(assassin's decided to let someone live then his employers go after him), or maybe Cage's disgusting haircut(it's like he wanted to be Javier Bardem in No Country Fir Old Men, but ended up looking like one of the three stooges only less funny).

Even if you saw this movie high you'd fall asleep. The action was almost as boring and predictable as Cage's performance. I couldn't even recommend this for patients with head trauma.

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20 out of 28 people found the following comment useful :-
Sub-zero, 16 September 2008

Author: Mihnea the Pitbull from Romania

Let's take it in order:

THE SCRIPT: - Illogical, incoherent, confusing and confused. - Unprofessionally conceived and constructed. - Apocalypically retarded

THE DIRECTION: - Slow, messy, chaotic, disordered. - Amateurish, didactic, explicit. - Doomsdayishly moronic.

THE ACTING: - There was none. The performers were simply reciting their lines.

THE WHOLE: - Permanently oscillating between lethally boring and killingly grotesque. - When Nick Cage comes for that tragic good-bye to his deaf-and-dumb Asian ad-hoc sweetheart, literally all the theater was guffawing in laughter.

THE SOLUTION: - Bring together all your noisiest and rudest buddies, buy many six-packs of beer, fill up the last row in the cinema, and make it rock!

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15 out of 20 people found the following comment useful :-
Depressing viewing experience, 9 September 2008

Author: fertilecelluloid from Mountains of Madness

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Nicholas Cage, who is in the process of committing career suicide, plays a tired old lump who kills for a living and spouts half a dozen rules he doesn't live by in "Bangkok Dangerous", a pointless remake of a film that wasn't great in the first place. One cliché-ridden scene follows another in this Pang Brothers pile-up of movie references. Even a generous budget can not inject an ounce of life into this sorry mess. The action scenes are slow and confusing. The performances are all retarded and misdirected. The words "stylish" and "cool" have been bandied around in reviews of this abortion. The film is neither. Cage's hit-man is a massively unengaging character with the year's worst haircut; he looks like an extra from "Combat Shock", a film that is one hundred times better than this (made for 10,000 times less). Ultimately, a depressing viewing experience and a cinematic eyesore.

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19 out of 29 people found the following comment useful :-
Predictable, 7 September 2008

Author: mattwaterhouse from United Kingdom

This is about an assassin called Joe who decides to end his career after his next trip abroad. The next trip is to (you'll never guess) Bangkok, where he has 4 people to kill, and he hires a young crook to work for him. However, Joe begins to break his own rules as he begins to see something of himself in the crook and falls in love with a deaf chemist.

I feel sorry for Nicolas Cage. He is possibly the biggest victim of typecasting in Hollywood, and he does his best with the roles he is given but the odd film slips through the net, and sadly Bangkok Dangerous is one of them. Nic is distinctly average in this and the performances of the supporting cast aren't much better with the notable exception of Charlie Yeung, who delivers a fine performance as the love interest.

This film isn't awful, it just suffers from an average and completely unoriginal script. This is Action Movie 101, and unlike some movies it doesn't get away with it by glossing over the cracks with special effects, like Wanted. Like Wanted, I successfully predicted the entire plot straight after Nic's opening monologue. Some scenes were very good, some very bad, the scale is balanced. The movie is like Marmite, you'll either love it or hate it.

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32 out of 56 people found the following comment useful :-
Awful tedious overblown poorly filmed clunker, 8 September 2008

Author: charles19 from United States

This is probably the worst movie to come out in years. Production values of a junior high school 8 mm hand held. Cage races through this with the look of a man trying to get off this set asap. It is an exaggeration to use the word plot, the screenplay has less suspense than watching somebody paint a fence. The so called plot turns were painful to watch, and the "arty" grainy washed out look of this film was probably an attempt to save a few bucks by producers who belatedly realized they had been steering this overloaded barge onto the rocks. For the first time ever, I actually asked for my money back after seeing this dreadful film. I got it. Why did I see it in the first place? I heard Mr. Cage on the Adam Corolla show. Nick and Adam, you owe all of us a huge apology.

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59 out of 111 people found the following comment useful :-
Remake plenty of action, suspense and thrills by Nicolas Cage and Pang brothers, 24 August 2008

Author: ma-cortes from Santander Spain

This story deals about an American hit-man(Nicolas Cage, also producer)in Thailand, he kills his victims with no remorse . The drug addict murderer forms a relationship with a young man(pleasant Shahkrit Yamnarm), as he teaches his craft to Thai hustler. Meanwhile, the killer falls in love with a deaf-mute( in the first version this handicap is borne by the murderous) pharmacist(enjoyable Charlie Young) and he shares brief moments of happiness.

This detailed study about an assassin and a youth he trains is an exciting movie with a great visual style. It concerns about murders, vengeance,love and this one delivers it well. The picture reworks many familiar issues, as a double-crossed hit-man in love. The rate of events blending drama and action are enhanced by extended length of the hunting scenes and occasional flashes of brilliance. There are a great deal of killing with some creative moments wrought from heavy stylistics and with a John Woo style. It succeeds in building intrigue, tension and nice performances, thanks to the affecting acting of the girl who plays the deaf and mute , she's frankly marvelous. The characters are well portrayed and they are persons for who the viewer has feeling and compassion. Worth it for the terse script and twists ending.

Furthermore, colorful and granulated cinematography by Decha Srimantra, usual of Pang brothers. Atmospheric musical score and fitting well to action by Brian Tyler ,author of Rambo 4, Constantine, War, among others soundtracks. The motion picture is professionally directed by Pang brothers(Messengers,Re-cycle,The eye 1, 2,3..),shooting during Thailand coup détat. Directors, Danny and Oxide Chun Pang did a cool but uneven work in making this violent story.

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Reasonably good movie, 10 September 2008

Author: Michel from Netherlands

First of all, for those of you seeking an incredibly deep and intriguing story line, this movie is not for you! This is a movie for people who just want to see some good solid action and good entertainment.

When i first saw the grade on IMDb i was a bit skeptical, but after seeing the movie i was quite satisfied with it.

Sure, it is quite predictable and the acting is not ground breaking. But the lasting action was quite entertaining for me.

The biggest flaw of this movie is probably the story line. Some parts of the story are rather rushed without telling background information. Sometimes the story feels a bit rushed with more focus on the action than the actual reason for an event to happen. Some parts of the movie feel a bit overdone and unnecessary making the main character look quite dumb...

I find this movie worth a 6,4 (i did not want to give it a 6 because i do find it deserves higher than a 6, this explains the 7 star rating)

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
A good remedy for insomnia, 17 September 2008

Author: Pascal Zinken (LazySod) from Maastricht, The Netherlands

The story of this film is an easy one: a hit man has an assignment in Bangkok and during that assignment he finds out he's come to the last stage of being a hit man. He's crossing the rules of the business. This story, although simple, can be the base for a film. The Matador (2005) for instance was a good example of a similar story in a film. That film worked very well. This one does not.

For me this film does not work because of two major factors: 1) it is hard, if not impossible, to grow some liking/sympathy for the lead character, and 2) it is as boring as the average re-run of a soap series. Cage is playing on auto-pilot, not trying anything impressive and the rest of the cast is just running along on the same pace and that doesn't do the trick.

This is a remake of a Thai film and although I've not seen that one yet I highly recommend everyone to watch that one instead. It must be a dozen times better than this one.

3 out of 10 hit men falling asleep at the job due to utter boredom

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