Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
No stunt doubles, computer graphics, and attaching strings were used.
When a former native of a rural Thai village, Don (Wannakit Siriput),
orders his men to steal the head of the town’s Ong Bak (Buddha statue) in
order to win the favour of crime boss Khom Tuan, the people of the town
regard the theft as a major catastrophe. They turn to Ting (Tony Jaa)
to get back their lost treasure. Ting was raised in the local temple
and schooled in an ancient system of Muay Thai ("Nine Body Weapons") by a
kindly monk, Pra Ku. He ends up traveling to Bangkok where he must
participate in illegal street fights with local and foreign opponents to get
back the head of Ong Bak from Khom Tuan…(to read more, visit the
official movie website)
A review submitted by "mush mouth":
"I LOVED THE FIGHTING SCENES. It wasn’t as suspenseful as Bruce
Lee’s Enter the Dragon, but the fighting scenes were spectacular.
There is definitely no hashing of moves or tricks. Tony Jaa is a master of
acrobatics but adds the needed flare emphaticness to appeal to the
adrenaline pumped audience. As for the story, the moral is "What goes
around comes around — or an Eye for an Eye". But I truly did feel
that this age old formula was renewed, because the foreign elements were
mesmerizing.
Very good entry movie for this upcomer. I’ll enjoy seeing Tony in a more
complex role."
Starring: Panom Yeerum or as Tony Jaa(Ting), Petchtai Wongkamlao (Humlae/Dirty Balls/George), Pumwaree Yodkamol (Muaylek), Suchao Pongwilai (Komtuan), Wannakit Sirioput (Don), Cumporn Teppita (Uncle Mao)
Ting travels from his village to Bangkok to find the stolen head of his small village’s Buddha. He meets his village cousin, George, whose uncaring motives were to exploit Ting’s Muay Thai talent by forcing him to fight for money to line his pocket. George avoids to help Ting whenever possible.
Through a series of spectacular fight scenes and after much awesome flipping, jumping, dodging, and just pure kicking butt, Ting finally finds the villan who stole the Buddha head. Of course it’s purely up to him to defeat opponent after opponent, to eventually confront the master villan.
The final scene takes place on a serene side of an mountain in a cave. The cave is a smuggling headquarters, where a gigantic buddha lies and is being dismantled by the villan\’s workers. Ting is in dismay to see how his Buddha is being defaced, and gets very mad.
The “Bruce Lee” or “Jet Li”-esque mega vengeance starts. Ting summons all the power from his ancestors and his Buddha faith to defeat all who stand in his way. He kicks serious butt!
Needless to say he is severely hurt at the end, but his injuries aren’t fatal. The equation is balanced after the villan and all his henchman die. The villan dies the typical way, being toppled by a giant Buddha of course!
George dies from the fight, and gasped out that he learned how wrong he has been to stray away from his roots. Oh well, I didn’t like him anyways.
The End.
**This spoiler submitted by mush mouth. Thanks!!**
Comments anyone???
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