Bangkok Dangerous

The film stars Nicolas Cage as one of those hitmen who is doing just one last job before he retires to live on a beach in Tora Bora. Of course, the last job turns out to be the most difficult job of his life, and before you know it, he’s running around shooting up Bangkok. The Pang Brothers directs.

“Bangkok Dangerous” opens this Friday.

The film finds a hitman named Joe (Nicolas Cage) in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs, but ends up falling for a local woman (Charlie Yeung) as well as bonding with his Thai helper. Things get complicated when Joe is double-crossed by his employer and must blast his way out of Bangkok.

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New poster for “Bangkok Dangerous” has been released, starring Nicolas Cage as a globe-hopping assassin who finds himself the hunted when he comes to Bangkok, Thailand for a job. The movie is based on the 1999 movie of the same name by the Pang Brothers, who returns to direct this Hollywood version from a script by Jason Richman (”Bad Company”).

The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok’s intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard …just as Surat decides it’s time to clean house.

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First look at the poster for the Pang Brothers’ “Bangkok Dangerous” remake with Nicolas Cage.

“Bangkok Dangerous” is a story about  Kong, a professional killer, has been mute since childhood. He works the city’s toughest streets; silence his only response to the killings he performs. He is numb, acting with a sociopathic coldness as he brings down his steady, impersonal revenge on the world. Ultimately, the chance for his transformation (and redemption) arrives in the form of shop assistant Fon. She is able to provide the only tenderness and warmth he’s ever known. Suddenly stricken with remorse and guilt for his past actions, he fights back against those who would force him to remain a killing machine.

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