Bangkok Dangerous (2008) – Filmsack Show Notes

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

INTRO

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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

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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.”

 

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