Bangkok Dangerous
Kong, a deaf-mute, lives a life of quiet desperation working for Bangkok mobsters. Despite his disability, Kong's mentor Joe trains him to be a stone-cold assassin. After a brutal hit abroad, Kong returns to Bangkok and falls in love with young pharmacy clerk. But when Joe's girlfriend Aom is raped, the duo risk everything for revenge.
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- Cast:
- Pawarith Monkolpisit , Premsinee Ratanasopha , Patharawarin Timkul , Jaran Ngamdee
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Sorry, this movie sucks
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
I have been a fan of Danny and Oxide pang since I saw 'The Eye'. I decided to give this film a try a while ago since I now reside in Bangkok and has been exposed to their culture and cinema. I truly found it to be visually spectacular. Sure there are borrowed moments from John Woo, but lets face it;John Woo isn't performing very well these days, so let the new young cats pick it up where he's left off. I found the Hong Kong styling to be mixed with the lighting style of Christopher Doyle (not the actual cinematographer) to be very unique. I also can't recall in recent history when a main character was deaf , except for maybe the end of Copland. All in all a very entertaining, well written story. All fans of Asian cinema should enjoy this one.
I rented this movie not really expecting much jus a shoot em up crappy Asian flick. But as soon as the movie started i was amazed by the way the camera moved and colors used.The film also introduced some great acting. The actor known in the movie as "JO" was a great supporting actor.The only flaw I saw in this film was the way they tried to mix to many elements together at once. For example, the 20 minute cut of Kong and Fon going out to have a good time. That segment could have been condensed.OK my rating for this film... 6 1/2 out of 10 suggestion...good Friday rental =D
"Bangkok Dangerous" is a very nice piece of Asian Movie-making - and a typical one as well. The pictures and scenes are brilliant and almost breathtaking, while the story is kind of weak - or at least very straight, simple and without any surprise.And the story holds a lot of "stupid" things, too: f. e. sometimes our deaf killer almost doesn't understand anything when other persons speak to him very slow and clear, one scene later he gets his next killer-job in the darkest corner of a dark road and he is able to read lips perfectly under this bad light conditions...But with the Pang Brothers bringing this simple story to life with such great pictures, a lot of good used special effects and many nice-to-watch digital baubles this movie is definitely worth watching.Sometimes the movie is getting - after my fancy - a little to violent - but hey, this is an Asian movie, so what do you expect, right?A very good movie, but because of the poor story: 8 out of 10.
Loved the opening titles, thought this was going to be a block buster action movie, turned out it was more boring and uninvolving than I thought was possible. It's a rare occasion that I fastforward any movie for whichever reason, but let me put it this way, the last half hour was over in about 8 minutes or so. What a shame, what a waste. 4/10