Bangkok Dangerous Trailer Too Boring to Make Up Witty Title Making Fun of It
This entry was posted on 4/20/2008 12:10 AM and is filed under Trailer Watch.
Egads, is there anything at all notable and special about
the trailer for
Bangkok Dangerous, the collaboration between
Nicolas Cage and filmmakers Danny and Oxide Pang, that makes it
any different than all the Prague-set, anonymous actioners that Wesley Snipes' career has devolved into? I watched it twice to make sure... and yep, it sucks that bad. And I just noticed the second time around, after typing the above, that it actually
opens in Prague! Sigh... but of course.
From the morose voiceover narration ("I'd like to meet someone, but it's tough when you live out of a suitcase...") to all the spoken and visual clichés of the hitman-opening-his-heart tale, this looks like a giant yawn, and a disservice to the Pangs' 1999 original flick. And for the record, "We had an arrangement... political assassination wasn't in the contract!" may rank as
one of the stupidest lines of righteous indignation ever peddled in an action trailer.
Bangkok Dangerous opens August 22, from Lionsgate.
