One Night in Bangkok (2020)

Good flick ,wort watching mark at his fines acting

Fmovies: I was lured in to watch the 2020 movie from writer and director Wych Kaosayananda mostly because the movie starred Mark Dacascos. But of course, with it being a new movie that I hadn't already seen, that too was a factor that played in on me ending up sitting down to watch "One Night in Bangkok".

And wow, this movie turned out to be a nice surprise. I really liked the movie for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, the storyline. While it was sort of simplistic, there was just something appealing to the storyline and the motivation of the characters that were in the story. And of course Mark Dacascos, he is always a blast to watch in movies. But also the fact that it is a semi-Asian movie, that was also appeal; and by that I mean it was set in Thailand, but had an English dialogue.

"One Night in Bangkok" is a story- and character-driven movie, and it is spiced up with some nice enough action and fight scenes. But I must admit that I really enjoyed the storyline and the way that director Wych Kaosayananda presented the storyline visually on the screen.

And the movie had a good cast, that of course helped the movie along quite nicely as well. Not much need to mention Mark Dacascos, because he does what he does best apparently. But Vanida Golten - playing Fha - was also contributing something good to the story with her performance. I am not familiar with her, but she really carried herself well in this movie.

I can warmly recommend that you take the time to sit down and watch "One Night in Bangkok", especially if you are a fan of Mark Dacascos, because this was definitely one of his better movies in some time.

My rating of "One Night in Bangkok" is a solid seven out of ten stars.

Can't believe I watched to the end. Your first thought is, Mark Dacascos is the same age as Tom Cruise but Cruise must have alien DNA because Dacascos looks his age .. and Cruise never does. Your second thought is, if they spent more than $10K making this move, they were overcharged. Your third thought is, was there actually a script, or did the director shoot it in one day and let the actors ad-lib? And your last thought, before the credits roll, is that Dacascos gives the performance of his life, of his career, bad script and all.

One Night in Bangkok fmovies. Well, this was not a supprise... A plain copy of Collateral with altered story and a bad setup of "actors". Even for a rainy day, this movie is not watchable, mostly because of the actors that act like they are reading directly from a paper... There is many b-movies with low ratings that still entertains, this is not one of them....

If you go on google and look for the son and heir to the Red Bull empire, then you will see he was drunk driving and hit a policeman with his Ferrari, and dragged him 100m down the street. Till this day he has still avoided couts. This movie in many ways gives you a feeling of justice that the Thai courts will never be able to provide. The movie is very well filmed, beautifuy shots of bangkok by night and stays close and true to the Thai culture and corruption.

When I first read the description, I knew the storyline sounded familiar, but it took reading other reviews to remember the original title. Once I had Collateral in mind, I decided that I could fill my time with Mark Dacascos. I mean, he IS a better fighter than Tom Cruise, so surely this would be at least cheesy action fun.

Wrong!

Boring, slow paced, with no really good fights. Too many "interesting" camera tricks and editing choices that really come across as the director being too full of themselves.

Dacascos is an alright actor, but he is the best person in this movie. All the Thai actors would have sounded far less stilted had they been speaking Thai, and that might have even taken the edge of some of the cliche and cheesy dialogue.

I was merely meh about the whole thing until the third act. Then it took a sharp downhill turn into annoying and lame. Someone definitely missed the mark with attempting the drama and story, and should have just made a kung fu version of Collateral.