YMMV / Bangkok Dangerous

• Adaptation Displacement: While the original 1999 film is an award-winner in its own right, more people - especially Nicolas Cage fans - are familiar with the 2008 remake, and in fact there are action film buffs whom are completely unaware that the Nicolas Cage movie is based on an earlier Thai film.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • 1999 Original: Kong is a deaf-mute hitman who uses his disability to block out all sounds that could distract him during his hits. Once a kid bullied for his deafness, Kong rose to become a skilled assassin, revered for his efficiency and loyalty. After his friend and mentor Joe is killed by the Hong Kong mafia, Kong accepts an offer to kill the murderers, taking them all out efficiently, even killing the leader before he could pull out a gun. Outmaneuvering a client's attempt to kill him, even though it leads to the death of Joe's girlfriend Aom, Kong tracks down the mob and wipes them all out, and when surrounded by the police with the mob's boss in hand, he chooses to kill himself by shooting himself in the head, making sure the boss's head is next to his so that he'll die too.
  • 2008 Remake: Joe is an international assassin known for his ruthlessness and using everything at his disposal to accomplish his hits. Introduced killing a target by timing his sniper shot with a church bell, Joe often hires con artists and pickpockets to assist him in his hits, killing them after the job's done and making their deaths look like accidents. Heading to Bangkok to accomplish his next series of hits under mob boss Surat, Joe spares his new partner Kong after he screws up too many times because he saw himself in him, deciding to make him his protégée. Ultimately deciding to retire after finding love in the form of Fon, Joe outmaneuvers Surat's attempt to kill him, from using homemade paint can bombs to wipe out oncoming goons, to sneaking into his base and wiping out his forces to rescue Kong and his girlfriend Aom. Eventually surrounded by police after killing all of Surat's men, Joe chooses to kill himself and Surat as a form of redemption.