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Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    The shooting sprees are full of razzle dazzle. The final gun battle -- between Kong and the police -- is especially effective.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    63
    Always 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.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    There 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.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    50
    Brothers Oxide and Danny Pang co-directed. What they lack in discipline they make up in razzle-dazzle, even if it sometimes is pointless.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    The film never escapes the constraints of its genre, but it's a hell of a ride.
  6. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Phil Hall
    50
    A 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.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    50
    Some of the nonstop commotion of Bangkok Dangerous is funny and inventive -- but much more of it is simply irritating and obfuscating.
  8. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    50
    May display an energetic and promising talent, but it is also uncomfortably close to being a 105-minute music video, with all the problems that suggests.
  9. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    40
    The 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.
  10. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    40
    Enjoyable in an undemanding way, and with a few interesting flourishes.
  11. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    40
    Better than slick, though it feels pointless -- another homage to a kind of filmmaking that's had more than its share.
  12. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Malcolm
    30
    The 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.
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User Score
7.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. MikiY.
    10
    You know, Bangkok Dangerous is Miki Yeung's Favorite!
  2. BangkokDangerous
    10
    Bangkok Dangerous is Ivana Wong's Favorite movie!
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