INTRO
BRIEF
Joe (Nicolas Cage) is a world-weary hitman sent to Bangkok to carry out a series of assassinations for a powerful crime boss. His plan is simple: finish the job and disappear. But when he takes a young street thief under his wing and falls for a local deaf woman, his cold professional detachment begins to unravel. Loyalties are tested, rules are broken, and everything gets a moody blue color filter.
Rated: R | 2008 | Action/Thriller | 1h 39m
LINKS
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814022/
WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok_Dangerous_(2008_film)
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bangkok_dangerous
TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BangkokDangerous2008
WHERE TO WATCH
Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.48bbcb18-20ea-e0a7-0ac0-d7a036ed5323
JustWatch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/time-to-kill
TRAILER/CLIPS
Social Media Post
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) – Nic Cage assassinates people, emotions, and quite possibly the entire concept of hair styling in this moody remake. #BangkokDangerous #ThatWigTho
SHOW NOTES
- Nicolas Cage’s hair: the real star of the film.
- Remake of the 1999 Thai film by the same directors (the Pang Brothers).
- Joe’s Rules: no friends, no women, no regrets. Breaks all 3 before the credits roll.
- Joe has 3 expressions: sleepy, sweaty, and “I’m about to shoot you.”
- What’s more suspicious? The murder or the trench coat in Bangkok?
- Why does the romantic subplot feel like someone pressed pause on an action movie?
- The deaf pharmacy clerk love interest is sweet, but also very “dude, you’re an assassin.”
- Lots of neon lights and sweaty foreheads.
- The pickpocket protégé: cute but also incompetent.
- He tries to teach him “the trade” but mostly just makes him carry duffel bags full of guns.
- Cage tries to blend in by wearing sunglasses at night.
- Did this movie invent the term “white savior with a silencer?”
- Classic Cage: shoots someone in the face and looks mildly inconvenienced.
- Repeated cross-cutting between hits and dates at the market.
- Action scenes are pretty well-staged, if you can get past the pacing.
- The main villain: basically Generic Crime Boss #4.
- Joe gets sentimental and everything goes to hell.
- Bangkok as a backdrop is underused—feels like it could have been anywhere.
- The ending: gritty, downbeat, and pretty inevitable.
- Nic Cage voiceover: “All I had were my rules. Then I broke them.”
