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.
You attack the trailer, and call it boring but it sounds like all of your issues are with the film. Hard-working people created that preview and used what they could to do the best job possible. If you understood the craft of trailer cutting you wouldn’t attack it in the ignorant manner you have.