The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok's intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard... just as Surat decides it's time to clean house.
Nicolas Cage is firmly entrenched in the same boat as Samuel Jackson. He really needs to just take a year off because he simply makes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many movies. This movie wasn't necessarily horrible. It sure as hell wasn't good though. It was just kind of there. It was another pointless movie in a never ending stream of pointless Nicolas Cage movies. The action couldn't even really save it because you simply can't believe him in the role whatsoever.
I wouldn't really recommend anyone paying to rent this. You can pretty much go ahead and wait for cable.
Nicolas Cage is firmly entrenched in the same boat as Samuel Jackson. He really needs to just take a year off because he simply makes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many movies. This movie wasn't necessarily horrible. It sure as hell wasn't good though. It was just kind of there. It was another pointless movie in a never ending stream of pointless Nicolas Cage movies. The action couldn't even really save it because you simply can't believe him in the role whatsoever.
I wouldn't really recommend anyone paying to rent this. You can pretty much go ahead and wait for cable.
