New York Post by V.A. Musetto

The shooting sprees are full of razzle dazzle. The final gun battle -- between Kong and the police -- is especially effective.

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.

Film Threat by Phil Hall

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.

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.

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.

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.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

The film never escapes the constraints of its genre, but it's a hell of a ride.

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.

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.

L.A. Weekly by Paul Malcolm

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.