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
- How Dangerous are these Bangkoks?
- A real Pang Brother’s Film.
- Is this a remake?
- My job takes me to a lot of places. It’s got its down sides: I sleep alone. I eat alone. I’m used to it, though. Pay is good. Do what I am told. The money is good. But it is not for everyone.
- That guys has finger tattoos.
- Do they typically run sirens while transporting a prisoner? Seems dumb.
- Hey I know. Let’s put our interrogation room where we have the largest snitch killing windows we can find.
- For whom the bell tolls… it tolls for Nicholas Cage.
- “My name is Joe, this is what I do…” shoot people from across the street in the bell tower. Also, I am a hotel room chemist.
- He has a thing about time.
- 1. don’t ask question 2. don’t take an interest in people. 3 erase every trace. 4. know when to get out.
- If you even think about it… get out. This is it… 4 hits. One location… this is the last job… should have gotten out.
- All my clients have 1 thing in common… they suck.
- The guy who pays me… usually wins.
- It always starts the same way. “Start out in a safe location” Living in an invisible world like a ghost.
- First time in Bangkok?
- Rolex no? Girls? Nope? boys?
- Most of all. They have to be disposable.
- Kong is my name.
- You come alone or you don’t get paid. You show up on time or you don’t get paid If I call and you don’t answer. You don’t get paid. If you are a minute late. You don’t get paid. If you ask one more question. You don’t get paid.
- Fuck a Duck is the term he is using… I believe? Bleep.
- You ran from the police. You don’t get paid.
- The human face can mislead in a 1000 ways… the eyes do not lie. I was taught to start with the eyes.
- What a big dumb watch.
- Bangkok Brief Case Shuffle. He want the Heroin.
- The elephant the nose… pointing down. Bad luck for you.
- He is a ghost… but the kids can see him.
- Sometimes he kills quietly… sometimes he shoots it up.
- Meanwhile at the Bangkok Walgreens… medicine… and true love. muted.
- Don’t mind me… Just gonna stare.
- Dancing ladies everywhere you go in Bangkok.
- Uh oh.. Where is my money! Don’t have it… but I do have some stabs for your legs…
- I’m sorry boss.
- Randy, there is a beer in the refrigerator… it will take down the swelling.
- Can you teach me? everything? Please show me.
- Again… again.. again… that was your first lesson.
- and this is strange… somehow when I looked in his eyes I saw my self.
- The Bangkok kid. I’m not yor boss I am your teacher.
- He hurts many country girls.
- I would like one accidental death please.
- haha.. that pond dive was hilarious.
- Nicolas Cage in his full black cat burglar purposefully drowning you accidentally.
- How many people have you killed? I don’t think about that.
- Forearm rub fighting with Nicolas Cage.
- he is breaking all of his rules.
- All your food is hot. Here, eat these leaves.
- All the dancing girls.
- You did it. You finally killed the Watermelons.
- Your killer graduation gift is a motorcycle. Congratulations.
- Rows and Rows of dancing girls.
- Elephant trunk is up. Good luck.
- Ok Boss. Done Boss.
- The kids in this movie.. geez.
- The case has returned.
- If I see your people again. I’ll kill your wife. See the red dot on her head…
- Oh hi mom. I am a banker… totally not an assassin for hire.
- Tiny cup… long arms.
- Your name means rain? Mine means murder man.
- Turn this elephant picture upside down so it has a nose erection.
- Me. I don’t need this heroin. I’ll just toss it out here where the elephant can take it.
- That floating market is cool. I wanna go there.
- Always a “Hey Mister” messing up shit. No lady. I don’t want your floating hats…. wait… your boat has an engine. well vroom then…
- That boat driver is like… out.
- Oh wow… I requested a shooting.. not a hand removal…
- But damn that was a sweet kill… watching those bullets exit the boat bottom.
- “Take it to the club”
- Uh oh. Same as you… good guy. He is next on the list no doubt.
- 3 baddies and 1 goodie.
- I have heard this music somewhere before.
- ahh.. he got a love note. Followed up by a killing. and a blood spattering. I am sorry you had to see me do the thing I am good at.
- My erect elephant has failed me. Probably the heroin.
- No elephant. I control my own destiny.
- Four… know when it is time to get out.
- He is counting backwards.
- The Russians always use him.
- Bad Man. Bad for Somebody.
- He is back on the pony.
- Kong is strong?
- He fights bad guys and helps the poor. that is why people love him.
- Now he is thinking about all the kills… he didn’t do it. All them smiling faces.
- Should have killed him.
- I’m not an assassin.. I’m just a photographer.
- When a nightmare become real.. run… and kill anyone along the way. Leave the country or you are going to die.
- He Home Alone’d those guys. Kevin!
- You got the assassin made at you. Now he is using you are a human shield. and all you can see is Muzzle flash.
- Meanwhile at the Water Cooler Refill Warehouse… Red Alert.
- Where is Kong? KOOOONG!
- You know he is the special henchman cause he is blonde.
- Your henchman is now in 2 parts.
- Surat. He is very bad.
- Killer Redemption story.
- 1 Bullet 2 Heads. He killed all the bad guys with 1 shot.
- 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.”
