People may question why I would choose to go see Bangkok Dangerous (in theater no less), but the answer is fairly simple: Nicholas Cage often equals comedic gold. Partially due to the roles he chooses and the rest due to the way he plays them, unintentional comedy is Cage's trademark. You don't have to go far to find examples, but if you want the cream of the crop I direct you to Wicker Man. There are small parts of that movie (short pieces of dialogue really) that I actually rewinded and repeated no less than ten times -- and then went back to after the movie had ended. In addition to all that, I had just seen National Treasure 1 & 2 last week which were actually mostly devoid of Cage's usual antics, so I hoped he would step his game up in Bangkok Dangerous. Did he?
I'm going to give the whole movie a big, "nyeh." The actual movie wasn't good, nor was it bad. It's what Hitman (a movie I would give 1/10) could have been, but the whole feature was dragged down by a side love story that attempted to show that heartless killer-for-hire Nicholas Cage was, in fact, human. The love story -- geez, where do I start. Cage becomes infatuated with a Thai woman, so you'd assume there would be the usual language barrier and clash of cultures. To bypass this, the filmmakers made the woman deaf and mute. This actually ended up being a trend of the movie -- lack of talking. It really was action scene shuttled to action scene supported by a story based on the premise that this professional hitman (who had been doing the same thing for presumably many years with great success) decides to change his ways for his last job. There was one line of dialogue in the last twenty minutes of the movie, a huge shoot-em up action scene that when finally over makes you question whether the $10 you just spent was worth it.
As to whether Cage satisfied my expectations, I would say mostly no. The biggest thing he had going for him was his wild dark hair -- that had me cracking up a few times when they did close up portraits of his face. So besides Cage's hair, is there anything good about this movie at all? It has some decent action sequences, interesting hitman techniques for those in training, and you can learn how to say a few Thai swear words. Thus, I give this movie:
I'm going to give the whole movie a big, "nyeh." The actual movie wasn't good, nor was it bad. It's what Hitman (a movie I would give 1/10) could have been, but the whole feature was dragged down by a side love story that attempted to show that heartless killer-for-hire Nicholas Cage was, in fact, human. The love story -- geez, where do I start. Cage becomes infatuated with a Thai woman, so you'd assume there would be the usual language barrier and clash of cultures. To bypass this, the filmmakers made the woman deaf and mute. This actually ended up being a trend of the movie -- lack of talking. It really was action scene shuttled to action scene supported by a story based on the premise that this professional hitman (who had been doing the same thing for presumably many years with great success) decides to change his ways for his last job. There was one line of dialogue in the last twenty minutes of the movie, a huge shoot-em up action scene that when finally over makes you question whether the $10 you just spent was worth it.
As to whether Cage satisfied my expectations, I would say mostly no. The biggest thing he had going for him was his wild dark hair -- that had me cracking up a few times when they did close up portraits of his face. So besides Cage's hair, is there anything good about this movie at all? It has some decent action sequences, interesting hitman techniques for those in training, and you can learn how to say a few Thai swear words. Thus, I give this movie:
My Score: 4/10, Rent (if you've got nothing else to)
As of this writing,
Rotten Tomatoes: 10%
MetaCritic: 24
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