Bangkok Dangerous (2000)

Movie
German title	Bangkok Dangerous
Original title	บางกอก แดน เจอ รัส เพชฌฆาต เงียบ อันตราย
Country of production	Thailand
original language	Thai
Publishing year	2000
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Oxide Pang Chun , ; Danny Pang
script	Oxide Pang Chun, ; Danny Pang
production	Pracha Maleenont
music	Orange Music
camera	Decha Srimantra
cut	Oxide Pang Chun, ; Danny Pang
occupation
	Pawarith Monkolpisit : Kong; Premsinee Ratanasopha : Fon; Patharawarin Timkul : Aom; Pisek Intrakanchit : Jo; Corkiate Limpapat; Piya Boonnak;

Bangkok Dangerous is a 2000 Thai feature film . The Director led Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang , also the script wrote. In 2008 the two shot a remake of the same name with Nicolas Cage in the lead role.

action

The deaf and mute Kong works as a hit man for a gang boss. He falls in love with Fon, who works in a pharmacy . When the two of them are walking in the park one evening, they are attacked by two gangsters, one of whom Kong shoots. Fon is so shocked that she runs away and doesn't want anything to do with Kong.

Aom is the girlfriend of Jo, a friend of Kong. After she was raped, Jo shoots the perpetrator. But because he was a business partner of Kong's boss, he has Jo killed. When Kong avenges the murder and shoots Jos Killer, he learns who the client is. In the meantime, Kong has become a nuisance to his boss because he murdered a prominent businessman, and is now said to be killed too.

While Kong meets with Aom and explains to her that he wants to kill his boss because of the murder assignment, the two are hunted by other killers of his boss, and Aom is shot. Kong goes to Fon and gives her a suicide note, in which he writes that he is glad to have met her, that she is the only one who understands him, and that he regrets all the murders he has committed. Then he makes his way to the warehouse, where the gang is based. In a wild shootout, he kills the gangsters, shoots his boss and is shot himself. The police are waiting outside. Kong comes out of the building with the gang boss as a hostage, presses his head to his, holds his gun to his head and shoots himself and the boss with a bullet. He does not notice Fon, who has rushed to prevent him from doing what he did.

background

Bangkok Dangerous was filmed in Thailand in Bangkok and Pattaya . The film was first shown on September 14, 2000 as part of the Toronto International Film Festival . In Germany it was released on DVD on May 6, 2004 .

reception

The lexicon of international film judged: “An unusual, stringently staged and effectively designed gangster film. The bizarre mélange of bloody action and melancholy city fairy tale draws its intensity primarily from the emphatically unsentimental depiction of a search for meaning in life and security, which amazes and captivates in view of the depictions of violence. "

According to the Rotten Tomatoes film website , 53 percent of the 36 film reviews examined left a positive rating .