Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Tweekums Protagonist Joe is a contract killer who believes in following four rules. These are: one, don't have a social life; two, always live somewhere quiet but not too quiet; three, don't meet your employers in person and eliminate the contacts and four, know when to get out of the business. Joe has decided that it is now time to get out; he just has one job left. This involves killing four individuals in Bangkok.Once there he recruits local pickpocket, Kong, to act as his go-between and translator. He gives Kong very strict rules about not looking in the cases he gets from the contact. He obeys but after an attempted mugging he sees the contacts of one case… it looks as if Joe will kill him there and then but Kong asks him to teach him how to do his job; something Joe agrees to do. After one hit Joe is slightly injured so goes to a chemist to get some antiseptic and ends up going on a date with the deaf woman who works there. The fourth and final hit is different to the others; they involved criminals but this one is a popular local politician who Kong tells him is a very good man. To make matters worse his employers have decided that it is best to eliminate everybody involved in the hits.This might not be a classic film but it is a solid enough example of the genre. Not surprisingly there are plenty of clichés; we have the lone hit-man who finally takes on an apprentice, there is romance and his employers finally turn against him… these are of course staples of the genre as is the fact that the people we see him kill are all really bad people; if the makers want the viewers to be sympathetic to a killer it is easy if his victims are worse and he grows a conscience when asked to kill a good man. The assassinations we are shown are all varied and quite exciting. There is some gore; most notably when the third victim loses an arm to a boat propeller and the severed limb is shown more than once. The story is told at a good pace and the romance doesn't detract from the story of a contract killer; in fact it is rather refreshing to see a deaf character in a romantic situation… although we have to accept that she can lip read English as she seems to understand him much of the time! The cast do a solid job; Nicolas Cage is a good lead and the rest of the cast impress to, most notably Shahkrit Yamnarm who plays Kong and Charlie Yeung who plays love interest Fon. It was refreshing to have a film aimed at a Western audience that only had one Westerner (Cage) in a main role. Overall I'd say that this was pretty enjoyable and would recommend it to fans of the genre, I can't comment on how it compares to the original Thai version of the film as I've not seen that.

Spikeopath The Pang Brothers remake their 2000 Asian film for the American audience with mixed results. Starring Nic Cage, film follows Cage's hit-man to Bangkok where he is to complete a number of hits. He tells us via narration that he has a set of rules that he follows so as to survive in the "business". He then promptly breaks his own codes and his life comes under threat.That's pretty much it as regards plotting. The Pang's bring much visual style to the picture, and show themselves to be adept at action sequences, but it all feels so familiar. Action movies are rarely going to bring new stuff to the table, they often, as is the case here, are kinetic popcorn pictures missing some emotional depth to marry up with the carnage. Thus this is not a film to be sought out by any action junkies looking for something new to add to their collections. As it happens Cage is fine and broody, managing to blend hard ass machismo with vulnerable traits. He, and the filmic style make it above average, even if ultimately it's instantly forgettable afterwards. 6/10

Sumit Tomer Watched the movie today, and found very interesting, but when the movie reaches to end, I saw CAGE committed suicide by shooting himself, he could kill the bad guy by shooting him instead of shooting himself with him, this is not a perfect end of this movie, I felt very sad, it is unbelievable and poor for me, I watched lots of Hollywood movie, but never saw such thing in any movie, in most movies bad guy got killed or arrested, I never saw any movie in which main character committed suicide, in movie "I AM LEGEND" will smith kill himself, but their was a need for this, if he didn't killed himself, he would not save the antidote and the lady, The movie is good, you should watch first, then post your reviews, Thank you for reading.

Leofwine_draca BANGKOK DANGEROUS tells a way-too-familiar storyline that'll have you reaching for your DVD of LEON before you're even halfway through. In essence, it's LEON transplanted to Thailand, with Nicolas Cage (and his exceptionally dodgy hair) retiring to the Thai capital to take on one last job before he finds himself stricken by his conscience. What goes from there will surprise absolutely nobody watching.This film should have been a lot better than it was; after all, the Pang Brothers are known for their innovative style, so you'd expect at least decent action sequences. The ones we're given are half-decent, if that; there are some good stunts here and there, and some nicely vicious touches (the bit on the boat, for example), but for the majority of the running time it's strictly par for the course. The film as a whole seems to be content to go through the motions and it does feel like it's missing its soul.Cage (who sleepwalks through the part, incidentally) takes time out from his hit-man duties to romance a shop assistant, and boy, did they go wrong with this particular sub-plot. Cage's intentions seem akin to those of a stalker, and instead of being romantic, the whole part of this story feels desperately sad on Cage's part, like he's a middle-aged lech grabbing out for one last thing. The whole film closes with an out-of-left-field ending which seems a little too far-fetched, and as a whole it's completely forgettable, like one of Seagal's straight-to-DVD efforts.