Review: Cage is a drag in dreary `Bangkok'

30.11.1999 /

AP - Nicolas Cage is back to his dreary former self — you know, the guy who starred a decade ago in such downers as "8MM" and "Bringing Out the Dead" — with the tediously monotonous action flick "Bangkok Dangerous."

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