If Scorcese was able to take "
Infernal Affairs", and make it the best picture of 2006, what prevents a Coppola produced retooling of "
Bangkok Dangerous" from being worthwhile. Sure, BD is using the original directors, the Pang Brothers, who have proven that Japanese horror isn't the only Asian cinema that won't work in the States (these Chinese minds were behind "
The Eye"), but this film can certainly overcome this because we have an R-Rated Nicolas Cage.
Cage is the hero of the only good Michael Bay film, "
The Rock", and if you combine him with Bruckheimer, you are guaranteed box office gold (the R-Rated Cage, not the PG-13 version). If you want to bring up "
Windtalkers", I just chalk that one up to another career ruined by Scientology. John Woo has yet to recover from "
MI2".
I'm not expecting "
Hard-boiled", I'll settle for "
Shoot 'Em Up" in Southeast Asia. The DVD menus seem to promise that at the very least. We have a versatile A-Lister and the original directors, so cultural differences shouldn't bog this flick down. Perhaps the stars have aligned for what can only be escapism with "
Bangkok Dangerous".
Read the rest of this blog other stories at Main Event of the Dead.com and determine if this thought process can be translated into a B-movie comedy about pro-wrestling zombies.
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