Bangkok Dangerous
First Look International | Release Date: November 23, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The shooting sprees are full of razzle dazzle. The final gun battle -- between Kong and the police -- is especially effective. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
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. Read full review
50
Film ThreatPhil Hall
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. Read full review
50
New Times (L.A.)Andy Klein
May display an energetic and promising talent, but it is also uncomfortably close to being a 105-minute music video, with all the problems that suggests. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film never escapes the constraints of its genre, but it's a hell of a ride. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
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. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
Brothers Oxide and Danny Pang co-directed. What they lack in discipline they make up in razzle-dazzle, even if it sometimes is pointless. Read full review
50
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Some of the nonstop commotion of Bangkok Dangerous is funny and inventive -- but much more of it is simply irritating and obfuscating. Read full review
40
Village VoiceJessica Winter
The movie is a technical marvel from its lysergic cinematography (by Decha Srimantra) to its pulsing-vessel sound design, but it has no identity apart from its influences, however dazzlingly they're deployed. Read full review
40
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Enjoyable in an undemanding way, and with a few interesting flourishes. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Better than slick, though it feels pointless -- another homage to a kind of filmmaking that's had more than its share. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
The editing looks like it was done in a blender, and the images of death and grief are so genre-primal that the Pangs hardly bother with dialogue. Read full review
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