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Bangkok Dangerous

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Bangkok Dangerous (2001)

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Reviews Counted:35

Fresh:19

Rotten:16

Average Rating:5.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Twin brothers Oxide and Danny Pang make their first feature together with this raw attack on the senses. BANGKOK DANGEROUS is like Pop Rocks candy: it leaves a funny taste in your mouth and the... Twin brothers Oxide and Danny Pang make their first feature together with this raw attack on the senses. BANGKOK DANGEROUS is like Pop Rocks candy: it leaves a funny taste in your mouth and the stinging pop is strangely alluring. It's a unique mixture of kinetic editing, textured visual sensuality, and aural assault. It's so incredibly gory and fantastic it literally vibrates. Kong (Pawalit Mongkolpisit) is a killer. Because he is deaf and mute, he isn't scared of the sound of gunfire. Working as a professional hit man, he stalks the seedy streets of Bangkok carrying out orders or drinking at the nightclub where the boss's moll, Aom (Pisek Intrakanchit), moonlights as a stripper. Joe (Pisek Intrakanchit) is Kong's best friend (and Aom's ex), who retired from working as a hit man when his hand was injured in a shoot out. With nothing to do, Joe is always drunk and depressed. One day, Kong meets Fon (Premsinee Ratanasopha), a sweet innocent who works in a drugstore. He falls in love and begins to question the life he leads. But it happens too late. When Joe is murdered, Kong decides to seek redemption by turning against his crime bosses and assaulting the Thai underworld. [More]

Starring: Pawalit Mongkolpisit, Premsinee Ratanasopha, Patharawarin Timkul, Pisek Intrakanchit

Starring: Pawalit Mongkolpisit, Premsinee Ratanasopha, Patharawarin Timkul, Pisek Intrakanchit

Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun

Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun
Screenwriter: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Producer: Nonzee Nimibutr
Composer: Orange Music
Studio: First Look

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Reviews for Bangkok Dangerous

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Seriously impressive.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out
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Written, directed and edited by the Pang brothers, Bangkok Dangerous delivers 105 minutes of explosive, stylised, bone-splintering violence that leaves little room for dialogue.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/23/02
Empire Magazine
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The Pangs' film is leavened with charming pathos and romance. This is a sure-footed, watchable film that lingers in the mind.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
03/03/02
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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A worthy attempt to add an emotional dimension to the standard bullet play that characterises most action movies.

Full Review Source: FilmFour.com | comment Comment
02/26/02
FilmFour.com
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Expect the Pang brothers receive a call from a Hollywood studio soon.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment 1 Comment
02/17/02
Tom Dawson
Tom Dawson
BBC
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Combined with the rather touching romance that's trying to bloom between rivers of blood, the film is more than a little unsettling ... and unsuccessful.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
02/14/02
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

The pacing is usually clumsy and transitions are clunky. There are two bravura sequences not quite worth the price of submission . . . other scenes suggest that the Pang Brothers really want to make a new horror film, not retread stagnant action plots.

Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) | comment Comment
10/09/08
Brian Gibson
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Bangkok Dangerous mixes mindless violence, sappy romance, and philosophical pretentiousness. On the whole, it does the first better than the other two.

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment Comment
09/19/08
Jonathan F. Richards
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
09/08/08
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

No frills at all [on the DVD release} and a marketing attempt to garner some extra revenue by capitalizing on the [upcoming] Nic Cage version.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
09/02/08
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Doesn't make much of a lasting impression except as a case study in the dreariness of style-over-substance filmmaking when said style is the height of derivativeness.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment Comment
08/27/08
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

...an old-as-the-hills hit man story jazzed up by flashy visuals and a charismatic turn by the very good looking lead.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
08/27/08
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
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Enjoyable in an undemanding way, and with a few interesting flourishes.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
06/03/08
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety
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The poorly worked plot and lack of decent dialogue makes you wonder if the title Bangkok Monotonous isn't more appropriate.

Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | comment Comment
01/30/03
Harry Guerin
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

Style-rich, substance-weak.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
Film Threat

The film moves at a dizzying pace, as it moves either backward or forward with no rhyme or reason.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
03/18/02
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Scene after thrilling scene, this movie takes your breath away.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
02/01/02
Eric Harrison
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle

It's so simple it seems silly, but the Pangs absolutely kick the thing out with exquisite photography, editing and music.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
01/25/02
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

It's long on style but short on substance.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
01/10/02
Gary Dowell
Gary Dowell
Dallas Morning News

A succession of set-pieces, each of them individually impressive but adding up to very little because there's nothing between them to move us.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
01/06/02
Frank Swietek
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