Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

I own this movie on DVD.

Well... there's a thing that's thrown around a lot, about how a bad ending can completely ruin the rest of an other wise good or great movie. Usually I never really take stock in that idea, as often when a movie has a terrible ending I can still enjoy the rest of the movie just fine.
That is not the case with this film.
I was enjoying this movie pretty well, really I was. I'm a big Nicolas Cage fan. He's my second favorite actor and I've been slowly collecting a lot of his films on DVD. I finally got ahold of this one at a resell shop for about $2. Usually the price used DVDs go for at places like that.

At first... it was cool movie and an interesting story about a hitman, played by Cage, living in Bangkok.
Spoiler warning for the film.
So he takes on a protégé and starts training and teaching him the ropes while also falling in love with a local woman. It's a good set up for a film with lots of possible options for stories and plot lines to lead from that.

However, the ending of the film, completely and totally ruins the film. With Nick Cage abandoning the woman he loves, leaving her hanging high and dry, and then to protect his new protégé he gets a mob boss in the back of a car and then shoots himself in such a way that the bullet goes through and kills the mob boss also. So suicide, while taking out the bad guy, and leaving his woman high and dry, and now leaving his protégé to fend for himself really before he's ready. It's a very distasteful way to end the film. His sacrifice didn't feel earned. And it felt completely unnecessary.
I was really enjoying the movie until that part and then it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, ruining the rest of it also where I have really no desire to watch it again.
2 out of 5 stars. I don't like it. Mostly cause of that ending.

Mistake Status: It's a Nick Cage movie I own on DVD... so there's a fair chance I'll do it for mistakes at some point.

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