Review of Bangkok Dangerous (2008) by Caesar B — 30 Apr 2013

This is a B-movie if ever there was one, they should have called it 'Cage does Bangkok'. In his job as international hitman he's sent off to Bangkok to slay some evil Bangkokians and along the way he takes in a local as his protégé and falls in love with a homely tranny mime. His gloomy ass is happy at some point, but you just know it's gonna end poorly, BD is damn predictable in that regard. In the first act Cage explains his four rules to being a hitman and then he spends the entire film breaking them ten times over with dire consequences.

The action scenes are downright boring at times, I found myself typing this review during most of them.

This movie is set up like a fucking advert for Thailand, the creator of this movie obviously spent a lot of time there, fell in love with the country and wanted to pay homage to it by making this (or some such shit, ykwim). Unfortunately, I just don't enjoy Thailand at all. Why? Well, because of its culture, food, history, infrastructure, people and smells, so I'm not buying what they're selling.

Thai bashing aside, this really is a mediocre flick, Cage shouldn't have signed up for it and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody unless it was part of a dare.