Bangkok Dangerous

Pendant presque tout le film, j’étais en train de préparer des œufs de Pâques, ce qui fait que j’ai eu du mal à m’y retrouver dans les personnages et que je n’ai réalisé que bien tard que l’héroïne était muette (ce qui explique les passages calmes). Si je ne m’étais pas en même temps affairé aux œufs, je ne suis pas sûr que j’aurais tenu jusqu’au bout. Nicolas Cage, même s’il est très sympathique, s’est sans doute retrouvé dans une situation financière difficile pour avoir accepté un rôle dans un film aussi bidon. La fin tirait en longueur, sauf la toute dernière séquence qui, elle, au moins, n’était pas kitsch. Je pense que demain, j’aurai tout oublié de ce film ! (01/04/2013)

The Pangs do a good job, but the uneven performance given by Nick Cage spoils things and the story is a little weird. Nevertheless, the action scenes are really nicely done, Tyler’s music is A-grade (perhaps it’s better than the entire movie) and the Prague locations made me happier than I had expected. (13/12/2008)

Untouched by the original, but aware of the direction of Nick Cage’s acting career, I approached the film with a slight bias. But as the Prague intro suggested, the Pangs made it into a B-movie, which they tried to spiritualize with a wistful romance. However, it's hard to believe in the hero who, with his zero emotion, then has an emotional outburst for a deaf-mute girl. At the same time, it makes the film less fateful, which the final meeting in the warehouse especially needed. This leaves us with only a few impressive moments (the action in the pool, the shot-up boat, the elimination of the pickpockets) that you can't erase from your memory. It’s too bad the same can't be said for the whole film. (13/01/2009)

Pure routine with an invulnerable killer who has everything under control, his mischievous apprentice with the heart in the right place, a fragile relationship between the hitman and a deaf-mute girl, remorse, talks about happiness, and some action thrown in, surprisingly, with even severed limbs and a body torn in half by a grenade. Nevertheless, as a remake, it is a shamefully sterile and unexciting film. There is no progression in the plot and the ending is emotionally weak. In terms of what Nicolas Cage is currently involved in, it is average. (29/01/2009)

A hitman heads to Thailand for one last job and discovers his humanity in the process. The lacklustre script drags Bangkok Dangerous down a lot, and a lacklustre Nicolas Cage doesn't help the result much either. Fortunately, though, the Pang brothers know their way around a camera and occasionally manage to pull off an interesting-looking scene. Overall, though, the film is a rather bland average that you can easily miss in theaters. (18/11/2008)