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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe shooting sprees are full of razzle dazzle. The final gun battle -- between Kong and the police -- is especially effective.
- 63Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonAlways 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.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe film never escapes the constraints of its genre, but it's a hell of a ride.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThere 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.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamSan Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamBrothers Oxide and Danny Pang co-directed. What they lack in discipline they make up in razzle-dazzle, even if it sometimes is pointless.
- 50Film ThreatPhil HallFilm ThreatPhil HallA 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.
- 40Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorBetter than slick, though it feels pointless -- another homage to a kind of filmmaking that's had more than its share.
- 40Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterThe 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.
- 30L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmThe 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.