Hong Kong-born twins Danny and Oxide Pang, who started their filmmaking career in Thailand, retooled their own BANGKOK DANGEROUS (1999) as a morose, slow-moving action picture for Nicolas Cage.
Killer-for-hire Joe (Cage) is tired of the alienation and loneliness that go with his line of work, so he takes one last job – a series of four murders in Thailand – and then plans to retire. That plan never works, especially when you violate all the rules of contract killing, especially the ones that prohibit knowing too much about your target and getting emotionally involved with people. So Joe promptly takes on a protege – Thai street hustler Kong (Shahkr...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
99 mins