Bangkok Dangerous (2008) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	September 5, 2008
On DVD:	January 6, 2009
Genre:	Action, Suspense
Director:	Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Writer:	Jason Richman
Cast:	Nicolas Cage, James With, Charlie Yeung, Philip Waley, Shaun Delaney, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Panward Hemmanee, Dom Hetrakul
Studio:	Lionsgate
Official site:	lionsgate.com/bangkokdangerous
Running Time:	100 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality

The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe,...

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In 1999, Hong Kong director Oxide Pang Chun created a Thai film named Bangkok Dangerous, about a deaf-mute assassin who realizes the consequences of his actions during a big hit. Ten years later, Chun decided to remake his own picture, albeit with a watered-down plot and a rather undeserving big-name Hollywood story. Face it: you know you're in trouble when a director proves he is so unoriginal that he is willing to remake his own movie.

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