Bangkok Dangerous

Starring:Pawalit Mongkolpisit, Premsinee Ratanasopha, Patharawarin Timkul, Pisek Intrakanchit, Korkiate Limpapat, Piya Boonnak
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun
Studio: First Look Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Description

Kong, a professional killer, has been mute since childhood. He plies the city's bitterest streets, with silence his only response to the killings and assassinations he performs. He is deadly. He is numb. He enacts his grisly tasks with a sociopathic coldness -his steady, impersonal revenge on the world. Ultimately, the chance for his transformation (and redemption) finally arrives in the form of a girl able to provide the only tenderness and warmth he's ever known. It could save him. It could kill him. A gritty story, the film is a powerful thriller, with strong emphasis on style, suave cutting techniques, effects, and urbane production values. Fast-paced, bloody and exciting, this film shows Bangkok's darker worlds, and the glimmer of hope possible in the dimmest of lives. It's a film about cities, a film about death. With its high-speed chases, its gunfire and action, its intensity, Bangkok Dangerous is a killer.

Customer Reviews:

A SOLID ACTION/DRAMA/SUSPENSE FILM FROM CHINA.......2005-07-28

AN EXPERT KILLER MEETS A WOMAN WHO MAY BE THE KEY TO MAKING HIM CHANGE HIS LIFESTYLE. FULL OF ACTION, FULL OF EXCITEMENT, AND EVEN SHOWS A LITTLE MEANING TOWARD THE END. MOST AMERICAN FILMS NOWADAYS FAIL TO BE THIS GOOD. IF YOU LOVE FOREIGN FILMS, YOU SHOULD LOVE THIS ONE. FILMS LIKE THIS SHOW THAT THERE'S MORE TO CHINESE FILMMAKING THAN JUST MARTIAL ARTS FILMS. I'D RECCOMEND IT TO ANY FOREIGN FILM LOVER. IN CHINESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

The cover is cool but..........2005-01-21

The movie itself isn't as exciting as I had hoped. About the escapades of a deaf hitman, it has its moments as he falls in love and out of touch with his life. The are a few easy to hate antagonists as well as the love stricken lead killer. Overall, it didn't hold my attention as I wanted it to. A decent effort but more for big Asian film fans.

don't believe the advertisements.......2004-10-25

After reading the reviews and seeing the sound bites of reviewers in the DVD package, I set forth to buy Bangkok Dangerous. I was expecting a "hyperkinetic" movie, as one critic put it and a cinematic style that's "similar to John Woo and Quentin Tarantino". I got neither. What I got is a languidly paced film about a deaf-mute hitman eager to redeem himself for a pretty young pharmacist's love. Actually, that's the most interesting part of the movie, how the hitman communicates his love to Fon, the pharmacist. The gunplay, action, the pacing and the camera techniques are nowhere near what critics are comparing it to. There's no gimmicky non-linear storytelling. No "kewl" camera work. No "hip" editing. It is not like Tsui Hark's Time & Tide with its visually-stunning camera work and dense storytelling, instead it is more akin to Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. Quiet, a little profound. The story is refreshingly simple but it kind of drags on in the middle, plodding to the point of predictable, it makes you wish it has one of those twists Thai TV commercials are known for in global advertising awards shows. All in all, Bangkok Dangerous is a refreshing film to see amidst the noisy action films of Hollywood and Hong Kong. But don't get misled by what's on the cover.

Very cool and violent action movie!.......2003-12-30

Bangkok Dangerous is a cool blast of daring and violent cinema that will have you enjoying every moment of its ultra-low budget "deaf"-defing trickery. The premise is simple - a dumb Thai hitman does not suffer from gun recoil because he does not hear the sound of his own gunfire and so has deadly accurate aim. He goes around Thailand knocking off criminals and crimelords but then has the fatal error of getting mixed up in some nasty business where innocent and important political people are killed. In the background there is the story of his brother assassin who is temporarily out of a job and a girl who works in the local chemist that he falls for.

You have to see it for the camera work and editing and violent special effects. It really does dazzle and there is lots of techno in the soundtrack. To be honest this little gem from Thailand simply mashes most Hollywood action flicks. Great!

Terrific performances, well paced use of silence.......2003-09-13

Bangkok is a city of noisy nightclubs, but under the surface are millions of people struggling to live normal lives. This film is about the people who live in that city, in its margins, and its a fascinating and very satisfying film for fans of noir-ish dramas. Featuring extraordinary performances by Pawalit Mongkolpisit as a deaf-mute, but uncannily dead-shot talented janitor (Kong), recruited by Jo (Pisek Intrakanchit) to be hit-man, this film succeeds on at least two levels. One is the level of his relationship with Pisek's girlfriend (Aom), played by the beautiful Patharawarin Timkul. It also succeeds on the level of Kong's relationship with Fon, played by exquisite Premsinee Ratanasopha. The acting is sincere and honest where it could have easily been overwhelmed by the directors Danny Pang and Oxide Pang Chun, who show their skills behind the camera, but in sometimes overelaborate and distracting ways. The version I saw was carelessly edited to remove profanity and possibly objectionable violence, but I truly enjoyed it and would like to see a complete version, perhaps with actor and directors' commentary subtitled.

Average customer rating:

A SOLID ACTION/DRAMA/SUSPENSE FILM FROM CHINA
The cover is cool but...
don't believe the advertisements
Very cool and violent action movie!
Terrific performances, well paced use of silence

Bangkok Dangerous
Starring: Pawalit Mongkolpisit , Premsinee Ratanasopha , Patharawarin Timkul , Pisek Intrakanchit , and Korkiate Limpapat
Director: Danny Pang , and Oxide Pang Chun
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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