Now on DVD, Bangkok Dangerous is a film about a newly-reluctant assassin at his day of reckoning for all of the horrors he's committed, embodied in that last hit he just can't complete.
Oh wait, now I'm being far too general; that could have been the plot of about 83 different anti-hero assassin movies. Joe, Bangkok's aforementioned reluctant assassin, played by Nicholas Cage, has fallen in love with an innocent, handicapped girl who will deliver him from his evil ways...damn, there I go being general again, seeing as how - for reluctant assassins - deaf/blind/young/innocent girls are a real bull market commodity.
So let's start over: Bangkok is full of well-shot action sequences with good tension and lots of cool "whizzing bullets" effects. Amid good chase scenes, and innovative uses of light and set (who wouldn't want to see a shootout in a bottled water factory? Talk about cathartic), the film also does a spectacular job of avoiding confusion. I know who is who and what is what despite lots of characters entering the fold.
Plus, Cage has that tragic hero thing down cold from his work on Windtalkers, Con Air, and Ghost Rider, so no problem there.
Thus, if you can look past the overused plot, Bangkok is a fun film that's worth a rental. Don't expect Gross Pointe Blank or The Killer and you'll come away pleased and entertained.
I would still like to know if real-life assassins put their guns together two seconds before the assassination. Seems like you're just asking for logistical snafus, but that's just me. Any real assassins out there want to testify?
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