Seriously impressive.
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
Reviews for Bangkok Dangerous
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.
The Pangs' film is leavened with charming pathos and romance. This is a sure-footed, watchable film that lingers in the mind.
A worthy attempt to add an emotional dimension to the standard bullet play that characterises most action movies.
Expect the Pang brothers receive a call from a Hollywood studio soon.
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.
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.
Bangkok Dangerous mixes mindless violence, sappy romance, and philosophical pretentiousness. On the whole, it does the first better than the other two.
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.
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.
...an old-as-the-hills hit man story jazzed up by flashy visuals and a charismatic turn by the very good looking lead.
Enjoyable in an undemanding way, and with a few interesting flourishes.
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.
Latest News for Bangkok Dangerous
December 01, 2005:
Pang Brothers Uncover the "Darkness"
ComingSoon.net shares an intriguing press release from the folks at Platinum Studios, and it seems that those crazy Pang brothers will be helming an English-language thriller... More...
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