Bangkok Dangerous - Il codice dell'assassino

The Pang brothers remake their audacious 1999 film. But without the gritty, seamy feel of the original, it seems like just another bullet ballet out of a Steve Wynn nightmare

For those unfamiliar with the Pang brothers' audacious 1999 "Bangkok Dangerous," the new version starring Nicolas Cage will seem like any other fast-food bullet ballet. Viewers who recall that original burst of adrenaline, however, will be left with hunger pangs. The two movies share a title, directors, character names -- and little else. Even the city in this edition feels less like the seamy, gritty, you-are-there Bangkok of the first film than some scrubbed, polished, Vegas notion of the Thai capital. [...]

di Michael Ordoña, articolo completo (2469 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 8 settembre 2008