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Plot:
No computer graphic can ever surpass what a real human body can do--and what the body can do is on spectacular display in Ong-Bak, a Thai action movie starring the lithe and flexible Tony Jaa. ...( read more 
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MCT:June 2, 2008OMG!!!!!!!! Times 12! This was so cool! I am now just by this movie alone a converted Maritial arts movie LOVER!.This guy,This Tony Jaa is freaking UNREAL.He is who Jackie Chan wants to grow up to be.The acting was totally overdone and stupidly dramatic at some points ,BUT the Action will keep any action movie lover glued,Its non-stop.This guy has done moves I guarantee you have NEVER seen.It's Raw.bloody and brutal,I loved every minute of it.If you like action,Or any type or Martial arts movie check this one out ASAP,You won't be disappointed!I can't wait for the 2nd movie to come out now!!
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MCT:December 29, 2006not interested!
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MCT:November 29, 2008
"A new breed of martial arts hero is born"
Jaa plays Ting, a young man living in a village in rural Thailand. Discovered as an infant on the steps of the town's temple and raised by monks who taught him the Thai martial art of muay thai, Ting is sent to Bangkok when the head of the town's statue of the Buddha, to which they pray to bring the annual rains to their drought-stricken region, is stolen. The country boy is plunged into the big city's seething criminal underworld, and forced to use his fighting skills to dispatch a parade of thugs in an underground fight club on his way to finding the criminal mastermind who stole the Buddha head so he can return it before drought and starvation bring his hometown to ruin.
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The most exciting Asian success of recent times is, surprisingly, of Thai origin, not the film as such (it's a pottering drivel of a story line) but rather the movie's star, Panom Yeerum, or 'Tony Jaa' to us Westerners. Perhaps one of the most remarkable finds in the evolution of martial arts cinema, Jaa resembles a spirited Jackie Chan in his stunt work, only with enough ferocity to make Steven Seagal look like a prancing mary. Ong-Bak is all about full contact Muay Thai kickboxing, and Tony Jaa is so remarkable to watch, he will quite literally leave you breathless: a chase scene through Thailand's market streets has the boy scaling walls in a single leap, glide underneath moving trucks while in the splits, and somersault his way through bustling traffic with split-second execution. You think that's something, wait until he starts beating people up, with enough force to bring down a Jumbo Jet, his knees and elbows can split through cycle helmets, he performs wildly acrobatic kicks that defy gravity, even when his legs are on fire! The final brawl sees a succession of stuntmen line up as canon fodder for his exhilarating skills, which emphasises the movie's selling point to such a degree that it literally beats any kind of wistful cynicism clean out of your brain. The movie's secret, and Tony Jaa's, is the impressive lack of wire gimmickry, stunt doubles or computer generated nonsense, a rare thing in this new age of the instant kung fu hero. Ong-Bak reverses the genre back to its bare essentials and emphatically embraces talent over trickery. What Jaa also makes us neglect is a pitiful story line, another herald to the golden age, where he travels into the dark, gambling infested underworld of Thailand to recover the stolen head of his village's sacred Buddhist statue, but in a movie this explicitly crowd pleasing trivial issues like plot and characterisation are by the by. This movie kicks ass and should come with a packet of plasters ? as for Tony Jaa, with a debut this strong, it will remain to be seen how long he can resist the call from Planet Weinstein. -
MCT:November 18, 2008A greaaaat movie, introducing to the public a martial art known only by a few people out of Thaïland, I nammed the Muay Thaï.
It's very very impressive!
Very original and different, theses fights using more knees and elbows than fists and feet.
Some amazing stunts, made without any rope or special effect r in this crazy movie.
I'd like to see the sequel, but as it'll never come to theatres here, I'll have to wait the DVD. -
MCT:November 12, 2008
Didn't believe my friends when they told me this guy can do what everyone else does with wires etc. Ok so he doesnt jump like he's flying but he kicks serious ass and convinces while doing it, u believe if he wants to kick your ass, running away wont save u. lol
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"...yeah well, this one's called 'the bird coming home.' what's it mean? basically it means I fuck you up..."
posted 624 days ago -
Tony Jaa rules. The best martial artist/stunt man since Bruce Lee by far. Very far.
posted 625 days ago -
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Kudos to Tony Jaa, for an excellent performance. As a Nuk Muay (Warrior Rank) of Muay Tai myself, I am inspired by the stunts, and the jaw dropping natural talent that this guy has.
posted 717 days ago -
Fucking marvellouse, ive never seen such an amazing display of martial arts. Forget wires, forget graphics, this movie just shits all over them.
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