Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior

Pros: No wires of CGI used during the fights!
Cons: Boring, very little dialogue

Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior is a lower budget martial arts film from Thailand. French writer/director Luc Besson (The Professional, The Transporter) is an uncredited producer of this film, and I understand that he helped to re-edit ...

Pros: new action star
Cons: less personality than the old action star

Press Start melodic eastern music- Long ago in a small town in Thailand, the young men of the village would have a contest to see who was the greatest Thai Warrior. They would all try to climb to the top of a large many limbed tree. It is ...

Pros: Tony Jaa; much of the soundtrack; fight and chase sequences
Cons: Almost devoid of characterization; somewhat repetitive

And now, Trust12345 goes head to head with the critics and their blurbs from RottenTomatoes.com, fighting (well, mainly agreeing with) the majority of their sentiments. Marc Savlov of the Austin Chronicle comes at me with a rusty-nail pecked 2 ...

Pros: Gripping fast paced adventure.  No wires.  All real. Pacing and Cinematography.
Cons: Lacking a strong message; it's just entertainment.

Ong Bak: The Muay Thai Warrior (2003) Directed by Prachya Pinkaew   The village of Ong Bak is looking at their festival, held once every twenty four years, to be held in a week.  There is a contest to see who will be the village ...

Pros: Tony Jaa, martial arts, amazing stunts
Cons: Story, dialogue

"Ong Bak:The Thai Warrior" is an amazing bundle of energy in the form of Panom Yeerum AKA Tony Jaa. It's an explosion of energy that has enough octane for at least two movies at maximum warp. The movie opens up simply enough. There is a shot of ...

Pros: Martial arts
Cons: Acting, script, weak story, directing, annoying sidekick.

Being a great fan of martial arts movie, I recently watched two martial arts movies from countries other than China and Japan, which where most of the films of that genre come from. The first was "Arahan", a spectacular Matrix-style movie that pays ...

Pros: Action Scenes, Camera Work, and Tony Jaa are an unbbeatable movie!!!
Cons: Tony Jaa's Sidekick can annoy some. Semi-Sad Ending! =(

Kickboxing and beliefs collide when the head of Ong-Bak a budda Deity are stolen and held for ransom by a power hungry gangster. This is my second favorite Martial arts movie of the year next to Kung Fu Hustle. Tony Jaa the main character who has ...

Pros: The best Kung-fu and stunt choreography since Bruce Lee.
Cons: none really

The story-line and plot of the movie was mediocre to most critics but to me, it was good. What made it good was the opening scene where it shows the tribe of Ting, a Thailand country boy, in a contest to retrieve a flag at the top of this colossal tree. ...