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FilipHolm

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Now, a remake of a movie is allmost never a good idea. They allways turn out bad. But when two directors remake their own movie you have to ask: Why? What´s the point of remaking a movie you´ve allready made? Just add...
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Now, a remake of a movie is allmost never a good idea. They allways turn out bad. But when two directors remake their own movie you have to ask: Why? What´s the point of remaking a movie you´ve allready made? Just add Nicholas Cage to the cast list to make some money... I have to say, the script is all over the place, plot holes here and there and the directing is... well, they make Bangkok seem like the darkest and most boring place on earth, instead pf the exotic beuty it is. So why did they do this? To make money? probably... and I don´t really have anything else to say.

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Posted nov 22, 2008 7:47 am pt

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This film was a remake I think. It was alright but the end kinda sucked. He kills himself, the other thing is it kinda dragged. It was only 1h and 45min, but it felt like it was twice as long for how slow it was moving. When finally got moving it...
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This film was a remake I think. It was alright but the end kinda sucked. He kills himself, the other thing is it kinda dragged. It was only 1h and 45min, but it felt like it was twice as long for how slow it was moving. When finally got moving it was over.

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Posted sep 9, 2008 5:14 am pt

• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  60
  Bangkok won't be making any appearances at the Oscars, but it is executed with skill and -- a severed limb or two notwithstanding -- without too much bloody excess.

  by Stephen Farber | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  Without the technical nastiness and fatal realism that made the initial film so compelling, the remake feels like a hollow excuse to present the myriad ways in which a bullet can pierce a cranium, rather than an edgy portrait of Third World violence.

  by Jordan Mintzer | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  50
  Doesn't work because it isn't much of a ride. The action scenes are strictly by rote. The incidental characters are all incidental.

  by Stephen Cole | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  40
  Parts of Bangkok Dangerous, far from seeming unfamiliar or freshly stylized, offer nothing that you couldn't catch in an episode of "CSI."

  by Anthony Lane | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  40
  While the film includes several exciting, creatively shot action scenes, the drama is otherwise so shopworn that the violent climax is a relief.

  by Joshua Katzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  40
  Pretty much all the things that made the original so original are filtered out of this un-original.

  by Michael Ordona | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  40
  I didn't hate this film. I didn't find it to be a waste of time or brain waves. Given the reasons I saw the film, I suppose I'm 50% disappointed.

  by Stina Chyn | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  30
  Of all the shoddy, insipid qualities of Bangkok Dangerous, the most egregious is the most fundamental: The film is simply dreadful to look at.

  by Nathan Lee | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  30
  I'm beginning to suspect there's some sort of ancient, or at least post-Pearl Harbor, curse in play that stops genre-oriented Asian filmmakers from creating anything of all but the most negligible merit once they hit the California shore.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  25
  As a cinematic experience, it's like being locked in a coffin for an hour and a half.

  by David Hiltbrand | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  25
  Dimly lit, emotionally empty, and devoid of thrills, Bangkok Dangerous should disappoint Cage fans looking for Wicker Man-style camp thrills just as thoroughly as action buffs looking for a passable thriller. It's never close to good, and it can't even get bad right.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  25
  A morose, slow-moving action picture.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  20
  Adds to the sad realization that this once-vibrant and witty actor (Cage) is completely controlled now by his inner teenager.

  by Joe Neumaier | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  20
  Another of those dopey crime thrillers where the hardcore, bad-ass antihero inexplicably decides one day to lower his guard and open his heart, causing all kinds of hell to break loose.

  by Tim Grierson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  12
  Bangkok Dangerous is bad without lifting a finger toward interesting. The trouble with it is that the people who've made it don't appear to understand life enough to allow any of it into their movie. This is an airless affair.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »