Bangkok Love Story

This brilliant movie ran 110 minutes at the London LGBT Film Festival. IMDB.com lists the runtime as 110 minutes. But both the Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs released by TLA state 90 minutes as the runtime. OK. Where'd the missing 20 minutes go? Is TLA offering the censored version that so frustrated moviegoers in Singapore? Demand an explanation from TLA before parting with your hard-earned cash...UPDATE! UPDATE!Like the "Fan of the Avengers etc" who has commented here, I wrote to TLA Marketing and in a very prompt and polite reply TLA did confirm that the DVD contains the deleted scenes that the director chose to excise for reasons of storytelling focus.

Not a porn film; but really sensual. When the two young hitmen are finally overcome by their attraction to each other,their love making is incredibly passionate. But you don't see genitalia or buttocks. This is a drama that ends tragically.

While I have no concept of life in Thailand, the life portrayed in this film would leave the viewer to believe it is a poor, violent and crime filled country, or least life in Bangkok.Typically, I am not a fan of excessive gunfire and death, and that has not changed after watching this film. The weaving of crime and gunfire with homosexual lust and love is actually done rather well. There is also a fair amount of quality cinematography.That said, some may find the depth of the characters a bit challenging at times. Not quite an hour into the film, we're already doing a flashback of how a love affair started, and/or ended. Nonetheless, the last 1/3 of the film is redeeming, so hang in there if you can. I just wish the first part could have been a touch milder.In the end, you have a film about poverty, crime, murder, prostitution, rape, AIDS, family and love. Make sure you watch the alternate ending in the DVD special features. I'm not sure why it was cut - it genuinely garners emotion. For me personally, it's not my genre of film, and not likely anything I would watch a second time, but the film is well done.

The kind of story that we don't usually see everyday: An assassin hired to kill someone falls in love with his target and struggles against this love because for him this is wrong. And his victim in return not only saves him but fights against everything and everyone for this love. Although sometimes too melodramatic, on the verge of exageration, this movie is quite beautiful and the love scenes are superb. The main actors are also great in this role and quite convincing. Beautiful scenes of Bangkok sunsets and night skies.Highly recommendable!

It's a nice idea - an assassin and his intended victim become allies, and, in hiding, unexpectedly find love together. Maek (played by Rattanaballang Tohssawat) is the assassin capable only of killing the bad guys. Iht (Chaiwat Thongsaeng) is his target, the lawyer a crime gang wants murdered.The film is visually stunning, as is Chaiwat Thongsaeng as Iht. I could watch him watching paint dry all day long and not get bored. But as for the plot... Oh dear.I desperately wanted to like this film. There was so much potential; the idea itself is a bit different - a gay version of Asian action flicks. But the melodrama puts Brazilian telenovellas to shame. It isn't enough that Maek's brother is a hustler who happily passes on the AIDS given to him by his paedophile stepfather, the mother is also infected, and eventually hangs herself. Oh and so does the brother, after a slow, lingering decline into AIDS hell. It isn't enough that Maek gets locked up for most of his life; when he finally gets out, he's gunned down. That's after Iht, who's been blinded by the widow of one of Maek's victims, has waited a lifetime for him. And because it's in a rainstorm, poor blind Iht doesn't realise Maek's been shot dead, and carries on talking about how much he loves Maek, and how Maek will be his new eyes from now on. Then a Hummer runs over both of them. (No, not really, but it might as well have done.)The first half of the film, particularly the scenes in which Maek and Iht slowly fall in love - and lust, culminating in a steamy rooftop love scene - is promising. But it goes downhill rapidly, plummets of a cliff and is blown to smithereens as one tragedy tops another. And I like a it of tragedy me, but there's such a thing as overkill.The one miracle is that I didn't try and jump off the nearest viaduct after this little epic.

People do say opposites attract and this film really depicts just that. Though I dont understand the song but the subtitle did show that it was a great song. All I can say, and to those out there who judge and rebuke things that they dont know or havent felt before, love comes in different forms and its left for us to either grab it for ourselves OR follow what society dictates. Gr8 movie and highly recommended.

Bangkok Love Story is, quite frankly, laughable. It starts with a professional killer plying his trade, then we discover he is homosexual, carries a photo of the married man he lusts for, has a gay brother with HIV plus a mother with the same affliction received from an abusive husband, has been given the assignment to kill the man he secretly desires, they escape together after a big shootout, our hero is wounded, his captive nurses him back to health, they finally connect passionately. But our hero can't accept his reality and hides from his lover. It all ends in the most unbelieveable finish. Everyone suffers and, sorry to say, so do we as viewers. The photography is beautiful, the music full of yearning and silent moments of our two lovers sitting on ledges or standing on flat rooftops quietly pining...these aesthetic decisions all wrong. A huge bag of cliches. As each character suffers "the arrows of misfortune" I couldn't help but think of the cartoon, Daffy Duck, and his famous expression: "Suffering Succotash"! Bangkok is not a tragedy. It is a comedy of errors!