Shawn's Bangkok Dangerous Review

2008 Movie #105 - Bangkok Dangerous

Seriously I am way overdue for a good movie here. I'm not even sure what the last good one I watched was. I could easily check but I'm a busy man damn it.

Like I said at the last of my Longshots review, this is another movie whose purpose I just don't understand. If you're going to make another one of these "hitman with a list of rules starts breaking them and getting attached to people he shouldn't be, as a result his employers try to kill him" movies, you better damn sure do something with it that has never been done before. Bangkok Dangerous doesn't even slightly try to do something different with the tired formula.
The movie is actually a little boring. You know what's going to happen so watching it all happen is not even a little interesting. There is some action but it's all pretty blah, especially considering some of the movies we've gotten to see in recent months. This one is simply dull and just plods along going through the motions, which all goes back to the question of just what the hell is the point.

Nicholas Cage is a little bit of a sad story. Some of his movies are just awesome, like Face Off and The Rock and Con Air and Adaptation and Leaving Las Vegas, and more. He could do drama, he could do comedy, he could do action, he was the fucking man. Then what happened? Things like Ghost Rider, Next, The Wicker Man, National Treasure 1 and 2, that's what happened. The choices he makes are just baffling these days. I still have some hope for him but it dies more and more with each passing day.

The title of this movie has to be one of the worst since this year's How She Move. I assume the title means that he is in Bangkok and it is dangerous there? There wasn't anything better than that? I know it's a remake but that just means the original had a terrible title too. I thought at first maybe his nickname was Bangkok and that he was dangerous? That wouldn't have helped, either way it's a terrible fucking title. At least it would have been ok had at some point in the movie Cage had said "Looks like things are about to get dangerous...Bangkok dangerous". That with a look directly into the camera and this thing would have been an instant five stars. Unfortunatly that never happened so all I can give it is...

* 1/5 / 5