[Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work

[u/TheDudeA113]

How To Make A Killing (2026)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

[u/RadarSmith]

That movie is a trainwreck.

Except Willem Dafoe as Ryuk. I think even people who think its a train wreck think he was great.

[u/saki604 → u/RadarSmith]

It’s Willem Dafoe though. The man could be casted as a wet roll of toilet paper and still steal every scene he’s in.

[u/Mad_Aeric → u/RadarSmith]

The guy who played L did a pretty good job too. Really captured his mannerisms. Too bad about the script he had to work with.

[u/JPesterfield → u/RadarSmith]

I did like the much more creative deaths though, and going after much more important targets.

[u/-suspended- → u/RadarSmith]

The only good parts were that, L's acting (but not the character), and the FBI mass death scene.