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Bangkok Dangerous (2001)
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
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 stinging pop is strangely alluring. It's a unique mixture of kinetic editing, textured visual... 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]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Pawalit Mongkolpisit, Premsinee Ratanasopha, Patharawarin Timkul, Pisek Intrakanchit
Screenwriter: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Producer: Nonzee Nimibutr
Composer: Orange Music
DVD Info
Release:
Jul 2, 2003
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Single Side - Dual Layer
Reviews
The poorly worked plot and lack of decent dialogue makes you wonder if the title Bangkok Monotonous isn't more appropriate.
The film moves at a dizzying pace, as it moves either backward or forward with no rhyme or reason.
It's so simple it seems silly, but the Pangs absolutely kick the thing out with exquisite photography, editing and music.
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.
If you're looking for something different, the movie certainly qualifies. How many visually snappy Thai urban romance/crime thrillers have you seen lately?
The movie has a seductive visual style and almost no emotional heart. Even genre fans will find it too derivative.
This one aims to thrill and won't disappoint those with strong stomachs.
The film never escapes the constraints of its genre, but it's a hell of a ride.
Entertaining, for sure. But it also impresses far more than it engages.
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