Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is one of the safest cities in the world for a tourist. The free feeling as one walks the streets of the City of Angels is only marred by overzealous pimps in the Patpong section of the city. Gun control is very strict, with licenses issued for gun ownership only to those who attest that they are in an insecure situation. The film Bangkok Dangerous, directed by the brothers Oxide and Danny Pang, tries a Hongkong style gangster film with a Thai twist. The lead character is Kong (played by Pawalit Mongkolpisit), who has evidently been deaf from an early age; teased by his school classmates, he feels powerless as a child to redress the harassment, but a desire for revenge evidently lurks inside him. Lacking a marketable skill from his education for a decent job, he is a janitor in a shooting arcade. One day Joe (played by Pisek Intrakanchit) comes to the arcade, befriends him, and teaches him to be a marksman. Kong imagines that the bullets shooting ducks are aimed at his former schoolmate persecutors. Joe then recruits him to become a hit man, and they live together as underlings of a crime boss. Kong’s marksmanship is extraordinary, and his deafness is an advantage, because he does not react to sounds that might distract his aim. Aom (played by Patharawarin Timkul), a stripper and take-out prostitute in a go-go bar, doubtless in Patpong, is the one who dispatches assassination orders and cash from the boss to the two hit men; she is Joe’s girlfriend. During the film we observe a few assassinations, including a reconstruction of the actual murder of an executive manager of a broadcasting station in the late 1990s. One day Kong wanders into a pharmacy in search of medicine to ease a headache. Fon (played by Premsinee Ratanasopha), an attractive pharmacist on duty, assists him to find the correct pills. The next day Kong returns to thank her, as the pain went away. Thereafter, she and Kong become friends and go on dates together, and filmviewers will feel even deeper sympathy for him as he finds joy with a beautiful girl. When Kong eventually dies in a shootout, she appears on the scene to provide the tears for the audience for the tragedy of a fallen angel. Thailand’s first gangster film evidently serves as a wake-up call to the mistreatment of the deaf and to the presence of the criminal underworld amid the glitter of Bangkok, but many Thais are likely to be embarrassed that the image of their country in Bangkok Dangerous is tainted by such an unrepresentative picture. MH