While the film includes several exciting, creatively shot action scenes, the drama is otherwise so shopworn that the violent climax is a relief.

| Dec 8, 2008

[Cage is] funless, scowly, grim, and steroidally impervious to the fleshy and salacious good cheer that surrounds him.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Tediously monotonous.

| Oct 18, 2008

Cage is believable as the brooding lone-wolf gunman, but the "hit man screwing himself by growing a conscience on his final kill" ploy needs to be put down for good.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Sep 11, 2008

Remove Cage's moody presence, and you could pick up this kind of action tat at your nearest service station.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2008

Just another cycle of bombast and boredom.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2008

Awatchable, but dull action flick with not enough body count to satisfy the average mixed martial arts fanboy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 8, 2008

There's a charming restaurant scene, some nifty hand-to-hand combat and the cast is great looking. But pretty much all the things that made the original so original are filtered out of this un-original.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2008

Bankgok Ridiculous is more like it.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 8, 2008

It's never close to good, and it can't even get bad right.

| Original Score: D | Sep 8, 2008

[Bangkok Dangerous] adds to the sad realization that this once-vibrant and witty actor is completely controlled now by his inner teenager.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2008

The sinking realization kicks in: These people are taking this nonsense seriously.

| Sep 8, 2008

Bangkok Dangerous is bad without lifting a finger toward interesting.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Sep 8, 2008

This could have been good.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2008

[Cage takes] the big bucks to star in slovenly, inert pulp of the sort no actor of his magnitude should be stooping to.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Sep 8, 2008

Directed by the Pang brothers (Danny and Oxide), Bangkok Dangerous is a halfhearted remake of their 1999 picture of the same name.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2008

Despite a few sentimental flourishes, this programmer delivers for action fans.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2008

As they did with their original, the Pangs steal liberally from John Woo without ever replicating his shootout-choreography inventiveness or proficiency.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 6, 2008

Bangkok Dangerous is so deadly dull that it's really not even worth writing or reading about, much less taking the time to see.

| Sep 5, 2008

If Cage wants to use his clout as an actor and producer (he's credited with both here) to make down-and-dirty B-movies, then more power to him. But if the results are going to be this unbearable, he'd might as well crank out the Oscar-bait.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 5, 2008