A hitman who's in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs violates his personal code when he falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.
Joe is a professional hitman who picks someone off the street to do his errands, and after he is finished kills that person. His next assignment takes him to Bangkok, and as usual, he finds a streetwise guy named Kong to help him. After Kong has a close call and learns who Joe is, Kong asks him to train him and he does. Joe also meets a local girl who is deaf and spends time with her, but he has a hard time keeping his other life from her. It also appears that the person who hired Joe has broken his rule of complete anonymity and tries to find him.—[email protected]
Joe, an international hit man who follows a simple code, arrives in Bangkok for his last contract - four kills and then retirement. He hires Kong, a local street hustler, to run his errands, and he gets to work. By the second hit, Joe has started violating his four rules, losing his anonymity, leaving behind traces, and getting emotionally involved. Only one rule remains intact: don't ask questions. Can Joe regain his footing and get out alive?—<[email protected]>
The American professional assassin was hired by the Thai mafia boss to do the assignment by killing four people. The assassin get the order by the pickpocket who later becomes his disciple. Everything looks alright, but after the third target killing. Joe found that he was betrayed, he decided to quit the job. However, when he was hunt and his disciple was caught as the hostage. The assassin decided to end all of the problem and give the gang's payback.—Kankawin25013
The hit man Joe is a professional killer with a peculiar code of honor and modus-operandi. He travels to Bangkok to kill four persons and he hires the smalltime hoodlum Kong to help him in his job. When he meets the deaf and dumb Fon in a pharmacy, he falls in love with her and breaks his code. Further, he teaches Kong how to become a hit man. But when Kong is abducted by Surat, who had hired Joe for the assignment in Bangkok, he is forced to betray Joe. But the hit man decides to rescue Kong in his last job.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Joe (Nicolas Cage) is a professional freelance contract killer who works strictly by the rules; never socializing outside his work, staying secluded in quiet spots, never interacting or meeting with his handlers (& not asking questions) and always leaving on time without a trace. He always has an escape plan.He usually hires young pickpockets or small-time criminals as his local help, whom he usually murders after the end of the job to prevent any identification. He uses multiple aliases and also has middlemen between him and his handlers. He also carries a watch to perform a hit in specific time and correctly visualizes his every target. The work is steady, and the money is good, but the job requires strict discipline.
After completing a hit in Prague (where he kills a mob snitch who was in police custody, with a sniper rifle through a window of the police station) and killing his current help (he makes it look like a drug overdose), Joe travels to Bangkok for an assignment to assassinate four people for notorious Bangkok crime boss Surat (Nirattisai Kaljaruek), whom he never meets.For Joe, this is the last job, and he plans to retire after taking the money.
Joe occasionally provides insight via voiceover narration throughout the film. Joe hires a secluded mansion where he has privacy. He hires a local Thai pickpocket named Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), after observing his work stealing from tourists at the local market, and who has simple English knowledge, as his go-between in Bangkok, a condition of the contract being that the gang will never meet Joe. Joe pays Kong 3000 Baht a day and promises a month's worth of work.Contracts from the Bangkok gangsters are passed to Kong one by one via a nightclub dancer, Aom (Panward Hemmanee). Kong presents a particularly marked currency note to Aom and in exchange, she gives the contract in a package.Joe tracks the first target and follows the persons daily route from office to home in the evening.Joe's first execution in Bangkok is done on motorcycle; when the target car stops at a red light, Joe kills all the occupants with a MAC-11.
Kong retrieves information about the second target, again via Aom, and the pair become friendlier with every contact. After getting the 2nd briefcase, Kong is attacked by muggers, but he manages to fight them off and delivers the briefcase to Joe, even though it was cracked open by the muggers. Kong had seen the contents of the briefcase and knew that Joe is an assassin.Unsatisfied with Kong's assistance, Joe contemplates killing him, he instead decides to act as Kong's mentor and trains him for self-defense. Joe says that he didn't kill Kong as he saw a bit of himself in Kong.Joe teaches Kong the basics of hand-to-hand combat, shooting firearms and using the surroundings to your advantage.
Before Joe executes his mission, Kong informs him of the target, Pramod Juntasa, another notorious gang lord and Surat's rival crime boss who acts as a sex trafficker, buying young girls from impoverished parents and selling them for sex.Joe sneaks into the target's penthouse and drowns him in his pool.
Joe meets Fon (Charlie Yeung), a deaf-mute pharmacist, with whom he becomes intrigued after a brief consultation. Joe had to visit the pharmacy to buy some medicines after he got injured after the first getaway. Fon looks at the wound and suggests the right medicines for Joe.Joe later returns to the pharmacy to invite Fon out for dinner. Soon after Joe falls for Fon and meets her mother, the affair is cut short when he shoots and kills two assailants in Fon's presence. Blood splatters on Fon, and she runs off, trembling and traumatized by the violent deaths. Feeling betrayed, Fon cannot forgive Joe and ends their relationship.
Before the third kill, the gang attempts to identify Joe by following Kong after he picks the briefcase from Aom. Kong notices that he is being followed and leaves the briefcase as instructed by Joe. Joe calls Surat and warns them off.For the third execution that takes place at the Damnoen Saduak floating market, Kong assists Joe. The kill does not go as planned, and the target, a playboy and a criminal underworld associate, nearly gets away but Joe manages to catch and assassinate him. Before beginning his last mission Joe visits Fon, presumably to say goodbye. She initially ignores him but as Joe begins to drive away, she runs after his car.
His fourth target is the Prime Minister of Thailand, who is revered by many for helping the poor but a great hindrance to Surat due to his hard-liner crackdown on organized crime. Joe is about to make the kill when he has second thoughts, is spotted, and escapes through a panicking crowd.
Meanwhile, the gang has abducted Aom and Kong with plans to execute them. Joe, now a target, is attacked at his house by four of Surat's henchmen. He uses explosives to take them out and is faced with the choice of rescuing Kong or leaving the country unharmed. Joe decides to rescue Kong, so he sets off to the gang's headquarters with one of the half-alive attackers.
Joe goes to the gang's headquarters, kills most of the gang including Surat's under-boss/bodyguard (who is blown into half by explosives), and saves Kong and Aom. The fearful gang leader flees to his car with three other accomplices. Joe spots him and shoots the gang members, then gets into the back seat with Surat. As the police arrive at the location, Joe realizes he has only one bullet. He puts his head adjacent to Surat's, puts the gun up to his temple and pulls the trigger, killing himself and Surat.
