2008 · action · crime · thriller
Bangkok Dangerous
Directed by Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang Phat1h 39m2008
When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok, Joe meets street kid Kong and he becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, he asks Joe to train him up in the deadly arts and unwittingly becomes a target of a band of killers.
Our read: Bangkok Dangerous (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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