After their hit THE EYE was remade by others, this time the Pang Brothers take the wheel as they revisit their first film together. In BANGKOK DANGEROUS, Nicolas Cage (NATIONAL TREASURE, LORD OF WAR) stars as Joe, a hit man who goes to Thailand on a mission. The beauty of both the city and one of its residents distracts Joe, and he begins to take a young man under his wing, but his boss won't let the original goal be forgotten.
He used to be a quirky, often funny actor who moved us in 1995's Leaving Las Vegas and made us laugh in movies such as Raising Arizona (1987) and Adaptation (2002).
But in Bangkok Dangerous (* out of four), an inert and uninteresting remake of a Hong Kong action film, he plays the dullest hit man to ever hit the big screen. His baleful gaze is unsuited to the part, and he is about as convincing as a basset hound. The rest of the cast is even more wooden and unremarkable, as are the car chases, explosions and bullet-fests.
Cage plays Joe, a hit man who goes to Bangkok to kill four enemies ...
For those unfamiliar with the Pang brothers' audacious 1999 Bangkok Dangerous, the new version starring Nicolas Cage will seem like any other fast-food bullet ballet. Viewers who recall that original burst of adrenaline, however, will be left with hunger pangs.
The two movies share a title, directors, character names -- and little else. Even the city in this edition feels less like the seamy, gritty, you-are-there Bangkok of the first film than some scrubbed, polished, Vegas notion of the Thai capital. Although the uninitiated might not know what they're missing, there's not much otherwise to hook them in what becomes a standard tired-warrior-finds...
Heavy on the spice and cheap on the meat, Bangkok Dangerous adds plenty of Thai seasoning to the Hollywood lone-assassin recipe, but the result is only mildly pungent. Rehashing certain elements -- including striking location shooting -- that marked their much grittier 1999 feature of the same title, Hong Kong's Pang brothers increase the decibel level of the gunshots and the schmaltz level of the scenario, but such embellishments, not to mention a Nicolas Cage doused with Clairol, make this hefty remake seem less dangerous than incongruous. Low September B.O. body count should be surpassed by acceptable ancillary returns.
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