Bangkok Dangerous

Yes, it’s the last gasp of the Summer movie season, so let’s end it with a bang. And a boom. And a stab. And a roundhouse kick to the head. As you may have guessed, here’s one last action thriller before those cold-weather awards contenders begin to arrive at the multiplex. The star of this new movie is carrying on the action superstar era probably begun in the 1980s by Stallone and Schwarzenegger. They spawned a “cottage industry” of the genre, taken over by Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, along with the Asian imports, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. So who’s been toiling away with modest-budgeted “flyin’ fists” flicks? Why,…