With its unusual, hybridized pedigree, <em>Bangkok Dangerous</em> arrives as the latest in a long line of Asian-movie remakes -- a genre that seemed to peak around 2006. Dating all the way back to 1960's <em>The Magnificent Seven</em>, a western adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's classic action-drama <em>The Seven Samurai</em>, the genre has some notable hits: the 1998 update of <em>Godzilla</em> took in more than $136 million at the box office; Martin Scorsese's <em>The Departed</em> (a remake of the Hong Kong potboiler <em>Infernal Affairs</em>) grossed $132 million in theatres and won four Oscars, including best picture. But most Asian remakes turn out to be modest box-office performers.
...Enter the Pang brothers, the Hong Kong-born action-horror hotshot... the writer-director siblings Danny and Oxide Pang to remake their 1999 Thai-language hit, B...
Teenager Jess (Panic Room's Kristen Stewart) has just arrived with her parents (Penelope Ann Miller and Dylan McDermott) and kid brother Ben at what is clearly the scariest farmhouse in North America. Despite creepy children's toys in the cupboard and a landscaping scheme that features dead trees filled with looming crows, cheerful dad thinks this is just what the family needs to get over some unspecified past trauma. There is some promise to the story, which has an unusual amount of character development for a horror film, bolstered by strong work from Stewart. The twin toddlers who play Ben are absolute naturals. (The same can't be said for McDermott and Miller, who seem a little strained by their demotion from '90s sex bombs to secondary mom and pop roles.)
..., Bangkok-based filmmakers -- twin brothers Oxide and Danny Pang -- make a movie in which a Saskatch...
Hence, in this joyless comedy, [Eddie Murphy] goes for a hat trick, playing the titular nervous nerd (who vaguely resembles the graceless dork he played in Bowfinger), his own morbidly obese wife Rasputia, and his own Chinese adoptive father, manager of the Golden Wonton Restaurant and Orphanage. Well, it's almost local. (Winnipegger Rick Skene was the film's stunt co-ordinator.) So the film wins automatic points for transplanting HK terror tropes to the Canadian Prairies. And as long as you don't go in expecting Hostel-level gruesomeness, The Messengers delivers modest slumber-party-appropriate chills.
... film, fraternal Hong Kong filmmakers Oxide and Danny Pang, the team who gave us The Eye and B...
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