3/4 peels
As I said before, I'll say again...Tony Jaa scares the living shit out of me. Watch this clip below and try to disagree with me:
ONGBAK 2 fight clip
Okay so this movie looks pretty good though some of the camera angles seemed a bit amateur. Many of the scenes reminded me of a Japanese video game like Final Fantasy as in if I had a controller in my hands, it would feel like I'd be able to control Tony Jaa in his quest to kick ass, jump around places, save the world, etc.
Like the other movies starring this AMAZING martial artist, this one could be called "Tony Jaa: Demo Reel 3". The story is lame and it's absolutely unbearable especially if you leave it on the English dubbed audio. (It's actually HILARIOUSLY terrible and cheesy, especially Chernang's voice). The scenes usually spend entirely too much time in setting up the location or event. The pacing is really terrible and the ending sucks....BUT...
The reason for giving this movie the points I did (in order) were:
1. The fight scenes. They are brutal and great fun to watch (like The Protector and Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior). You will never have felt like you were watching one of the greatest film martial artists of all time until you watch a few Bruce Lee movies or a Tony Jaa movie like this one.
2. Tony Jaa can cry! Tony has actually been working on his acting game for this one.
3. The color and contrast. The film looks pretty great... (pretty sure it had the biggest budget out of all the Tony Jaa movies).
Plot: So, it's about Master Tien (Tony Jaa) and how he ends up in some village as a kid where he learns how to kick ass. Basically, someone kills his pops and so when he grows up, he's gotta seek that revenge and bring back honor to his village and father and all that bullish. Nothing terribly new or exciting, with virtually no subplots.
So basically what you get is a good looking movie with Tony Jaa again doing what he does best: whoop some ass. He actually dialed back a bit on the Muay Thai, which was kinda nice. He doesn't do that bad in the acting department either... but while this is his best performance in a movie yet, this is also my least favorite film starring him, by far. Check out (if you have not already) "The Protector" and then "Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior".
But isn't it all worth it for the glorious scene of like 50 guys with assorted broken limbs laying about like the end of some cheese 80's NEW boss fight?
ReplyDeleteWell now I never said the movie as a whole was unwatchable...as you said, it's THOSE kind of crazy awesome fight scenes that make it all worth sitting through, yeah. (I did say the story was unbearable but that's just facts.)
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