Ong Bak (2003)

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Starring:

Tony Jaa | Petchtai Wongkamlao | Suchao Pongwilai | Wannakit Sirioput | Cumporn Teppita

Director:

Prachya Pinkaew

Genres:

Action | World Cinema

Languages:

English | Thai

Reviews:

1 reviews

Released:

Monday, August 22, 2005

When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a dutiful but endearingly naive young martial artist is charged to go to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it... Having drawn incredible comparisons to Bruce Lee and an early Jackie Chan, Thai sensation, Tony Jaa, bursts onto the scene! Amazingly athletic, not to mention charismatic, Tony Jaa refuses to countenance the use of props (yes, that's real glass, barbed wire and metal spikes!), wire enhancement and faked blows. What full contact you see is most definitely what you get! Added to this is a gleefully choreographed chase on the highways of Bangkok involving a fleet of tuk-tuk vehicles (the three-wheeled taxi iconic to Thailand), knowing location photograpy (visitors to the capital will recognise Khao San Road and the exterior of top nightclub hangout Suzy's Pub) and, most of all, an affecting story of one man's struggle to uphold village traditions against Western modernisation.

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Eastern martial arts affair.

Ciaran from Dublin, 05 Jul 2007

Young hot shot martial artist goes after the baddies who have stolen some artifact from his small home-town monastery. Queue some excellent fight scenes and other martial arts skullduggery and this results in a decent movie which adds to the genre.

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