50
San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham
Brothers Oxide and Danny Pang co-directed. What they lack in discipline they make up in razzle-dazzle, even if it sometimes is pointless.
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50
The New York Times by Dave Kehr
Some of the nonstop commotion of Bangkok Dangerous is funny and inventive -- but much more of it is simply irritating and obfuscating.
50
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
There are movies that are all about the characters, and then there are movies, like Bangkok Dangerous, that are far more about the directors who created those characters.
40
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
The movie is a technical marvel from its lysergic cinematography (by Decha Srimantra) to its pulsing-vessel sound design, but it has no identity apart from its influences, however dazzlingly they're deployed.
40
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
Better than slick, though it feels pointless -- another homage to a kind of filmmaking that's had more than its share.
50
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The film never escapes the constraints of its genre, but it's a hell of a ride.
63
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Always watchable and cinematically lively, but it never quite engages the emotions -- despite torrents of sentimentality and would-be heart-tugging scenes interspersed with the carnage.
30
The editing looks like it was done in a blender, and the images of death and grief are so genre-primal that the Pangs hardly bother with dialogue.
50
A style-rich, substance-weak B-level gangster movie which is noteworthy for two unusual reasons: it is one of the very few films from Thailand to gain international release and it is the perhaps the only film of its genre to feature a love story between a hit man and a pharmacist.
75
The shooting sprees are full of razzle dazzle. The final gun battle -- between Kong and the police -- is especially effective.