Bangkok Dangerous

Name: Bangkok Dangerous
Director: Oxide Pang Chun
Released: 2000

2000

Synopsis

Kong, a deaf-mute, lives a life of quiet desperation working for Bangkok mobsters. Despite his disability, Kong's mentor Joe trains him to be a stone-cold assassin. After a brutal hit abroad, Kong returns to Bangkok and falls in love with young pharmacy clerk. But when Joe's girlfriend Aom is raped, the duo risk everything for revenge.

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75
New York Post
The shooting sprees are full of razzle dazzle. The final gun battle -- between Kong and the police -- is especially effective.
63
Chicago Tribune
Always watchable and cinematically lively, but it never quite engages the emotions -- despite torrents of sentimentality and would-be heart-tugging scenes interspersed with the carnage.
50
TV Guide Magazine
The film never escapes the constraints of its genre, but it's a hell of a ride.
50
New York Daily News
There are movies that are all about the characters, and then there are movies, like Bangkok Dangerous, that are far more about the directors who created those characters.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Brothers Oxide and Danny Pang co-directed. What they lack in discipline they make up in razzle-dazzle, even if it sometimes is pointless.
50
The New York Times
Some of the nonstop commotion of Bangkok Dangerous is funny and inventive -- but much more of it is simply irritating and obfuscating.
50
Film Threat
A style-rich, substance-weak B-level gangster movie which is noteworthy for two unusual reasons: it is one of the very few films from Thailand to gain international release and it is the perhaps the only film of its genre to feature a love story between a hit man and a pharmacist.
40
Chicago Reader
Better than slick, though it feels pointless -- another homage to a kind of filmmaking that's had more than its share.