Slightly entertaining Nicolas Cage wig extravaganza.
Bangkok Dangerous suffers from a lackluster romantic subplot that would've served better if it didn't exist. The reason I start mentioning this is because the amount of Action the movie is suppose to have is substituted for Drama, which is NOT GOOD if the movie doesn't even have well written Drama. Anyways, Bangkok is a clichéd Hit-man movie that you have probably read in a book, or watched in a film, time and time again. You know those movies where the deeply disturbed assassin gets a change of heart? Same exact thing happens here, with clichéd villains and plot points to boot.
Nic has seen better times, and has appeared in better films, but with Bangkok he proves that phoning it in is the ultimate way to make money. Hell, ask Sam Jackson. Nic narrates and broodingly grumbles an assortment of passages that are not only unnecessary, but tediously clichéd; All they do is lazily describe a character that has incredible potential to be something memorable, but isn't. He falls in love, and he changes his ways. He gets heartbroken, and he gets angry again. Pleeease. Besides this, the performances by Nic and the supporting cast are decent at best.
The Pang Brothers, aka, the guys that did The Messengers have a solid flair for tasty imagery. The problem is that they are working with a redundant script that provides everything but a well written story. My opinion- stay in China.
And ... I really don't have nothing else to say about Bangkok Dangerous. If you're an Action fan, then this will probably satisfy your rental needs (the movie is kept at a nice pace, whilst having three good Action sequences). If you aren't, then you will probably hate this. This latest Nic Cage movie is a mediocrity that serves only one purpose- letting you know that it is based on a supposedly superior film. That and Nicolas Cage's wig. It's entrancing.
4.7/10
Nic has seen better times, and has appeared in better films, but with Bangkok he proves that phoning it in is the ultimate way to make money. Hell, ask Sam Jackson. Nic narrates and broodingly grumbles an assortment of passages that are not only unnecessary, but tediously clichéd; All they do is lazily describe a character that has incredible potential to be something memorable, but isn't. He falls in love, and he changes his ways. He gets heartbroken, and he gets angry again. Pleeease. Besides this, the performances by Nic and the supporting cast are decent at best.
The Pang Brothers, aka, the guys that did The Messengers have a solid flair for tasty imagery. The problem is that they are working with a redundant script that provides everything but a well written story. My opinion- stay in China.
And ... I really don't have nothing else to say about Bangkok Dangerous. If you're an Action fan, then this will probably satisfy your rental needs (the movie is kept at a nice pace, whilst having three good Action sequences). If you aren't, then you will probably hate this. This latest Nic Cage movie is a mediocrity that serves only one purpose- letting you know that it is based on a supposedly superior film. That and Nicolas Cage's wig. It's entrancing.
4.7/10
- Pierre_Kirby
- Feb 16, 2009