Director: Oxide Pang Chun Danny Pang
Release Date: 5 September 2008 (USA)
Genre: Action Crime Thriller
Review Summary:
Directed by the Pang brothers (Danny and Oxide), “Bangkok Dangerous” is a remake of their 1999 picture of the same name. The original, a slick and shallow thriller about a conflicted assassin, wasn’t so great to begin with, though it blazes with moviemaking genius compared with this halfhearted update.
The American version gets a big old American movie star, Nicolas Cage, for the role of the brooding, floppy-haired assassin, Joe. As he works through his assignments, Joe the lone wolf hires a petty thief named Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm) to help with odd jobs and act as his subservient sidekick-protégé. Kong is not nearly as insipid as the deaf-mute pharmacist (Charlie Young) Joe falls in love with, presumably because she satisfies every retrograde Western fantasy of the passive Asian love slave. And so, with a little help from his friends, Joe realizes that maybe he shouldn’t kill everyone.
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Director: Ben Stiller
Release Date: 13 August 2008 (USA)
Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Review Summary:
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.Screen Shots:
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Director: Rob Cohen
Release Date: 1 August 2008 (USA)
Genre: Adventure Action
Review Summary:
The blockbuster global "Mummy" franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O'Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex (newcomer Luke Ford), wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) and her brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). And this time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service.Screen Shots:
