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Battle Warrior Reviews

1996 Certificate 15
  • Rated:
  • 30
  • from 340 members

Tony Jaa (star of the critically Ong-Bak & Warrior King) is the leader of the Panter Squad - a group of martial arts madmen employed by a notorious General and Cartel kingpin on the border of Thailand and The Golden Triangle. They have kidnapped a noted Explorer who has been searching for an ancient priceless artefact that the .. Read more

Starring Tony Jaa, Chatchai Ruksilp, Christoph Kluppel, Panna Rittikrai
Director Praphan Peachinn
Genres Action/Adventure

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  • Most helpful members' reviews (3) of Battle Warrior

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star [Highly rated reviewer]

    Warrior King this ain't!!!!

    I'm a big Tony Jaa fan. I thought Ong-Bak and Warrior King were phenomenal! so obviously when i came across this title I was excited at the prospect of more of the same action. Unfortunately, Tony Jaa doesn't have a huge part in this, and therefore does not give us a lot of action. The film is not the worst I've seen, but it doesn't stand out in the crowd of low budget asian martial arts films. Some of the fight sequences are quite good, don't get me wrong, but the acting is a little poor. If you're drawn to this title because of Tony Jaa, I wouldn't bother. I made the same mistake with Spirited Warrior - another pre 'ong-bak' film in which Jaa has a tiny part but they sell it with him on the cover!!

    I wouldn't bother with it!

      • jayc79 from St. Andrews
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star [Highly rated reviewer]

    what a disappointment

    As a fan of tony jaa, famous and excellent for the films ong-bak and warrior king, this film was a joke and i found it hard to sit and watch. He was hardly in it and when he was it didn't show his talent at all.

    Very disapppointed!

      • charmer from Stevenage
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    A REAL LET DOWN

    I AM SORRY TO SAY THAT THIS FILM HAS NOTHING REDEEMING ABOUT IT. WHEN I SAW IT STARRED TONY JAA I THOUGHT IT MUST BE WORTH A WATCH, I WAS WRONG. THE FILM HAS NONE OF THE EXCITEMENT OF JAA'S OTHER FILMS ONG BAK AND WARRIOR KING. THERE IS FAR TOO MUCH OVER EXAGGERATION IN THE FILM AND VERY FEW FIGHT SCENES (WHICH TONY JAA IS KNOWN AND LOVED FOR) WHICH MADE ME CRINGE AND WANT TO ERASE IT FROM MY MEMORY! WORTH STAYING WELL CLEAR OF.

  • Most recent members' reviews (2) of Battle Warrior

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    A REAL LET DOWN

    I AM SORRY TO SAY THAT THIS FILM HAS NOTHING REDEEMING ABOUT IT. WHEN I SAW IT STARRED TONY JAA I THOUGHT IT MUST BE WORTH A WATCH, I WAS WRONG. THE FILM HAS NONE OF THE EXCITEMENT OF JAA'S OTHER FILMS ONG BAK AND WARRIOR KING. THERE IS FAR TOO MUCH OVER EXAGGERATION IN THE FILM AND VERY FEW FIGHT SCENES (WHICH TONY JAA IS KNOWN AND LOVED FOR) WHICH MADE ME CRINGE AND WANT TO ERASE IT FROM MY MEMORY! WORTH STAYING WELL CLEAR OF.

  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star [Highly rated reviewer]

    Warrior King this ain't!!!!

    I'm a big Tony Jaa fan. I thought Ong-Bak and Warrior King were phenomenal! so obviously when i came across this title I was excited at the prospect of more of the same action. Unfortunately, Tony Jaa doesn't have a huge part in this, and therefore does not give us a lot of action. The film is not the worst I've seen, but it doesn't stand out in the crowd of low budget asian martial arts films. Some of the fight sequences are quite good, don't get me wrong, but the acting is a little poor. If you're drawn to this title because of Tony Jaa, I wouldn't bother. I made the same mistake with Spirited Warrior - another pre 'ong-bak' film in which Jaa has a tiny part but they sell it with him on the cover!!

    I wouldn't bother with it!

      • jayc79 from St. Andrews
  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star [Highly rated reviewer]

    Warrior King this ain't!!!!

    I'm a big Tony Jaa fan. I thought Ong-Bak and Warrior King were phenomenal! so obviously when i came across this title I was excited at the prospect of more of the same action. Unfortunately, Tony Jaa doesn't have a huge part in this, and therefore does not give us a lot of action. The film is not the worst I've seen, but it doesn't stand out in the crowd of low budget asian martial arts films. Some of the fight sequences are quite good, don't get me wrong, but the acting is a little poor. If you're drawn to this title because of Tony Jaa, I wouldn't bother. I made the same mistake with Spirited Warrior - another pre 'ong-bak' film in which Jaa has a tiny part but they sell it with him on the cover!!

    I wouldn't bother with it!

      • jayc79 from St. Andrews
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star [Highly rated reviewer]

    what a disappointment

    As a fan of tony jaa, famous and excellent for the films ong-bak and warrior king, this film was a joke and i found it hard to sit and watch. He was hardly in it and when he was it didn't show his talent at all.

    Very disapppointed!

      • charmer from Stevenage
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    A REAL LET DOWN

    I AM SORRY TO SAY THAT THIS FILM HAS NOTHING REDEEMING ABOUT IT. WHEN I SAW IT STARRED TONY JAA I THOUGHT IT MUST BE WORTH A WATCH, I WAS WRONG. THE FILM HAS NONE OF THE EXCITEMENT OF JAA'S OTHER FILMS ONG BAK AND WARRIOR KING. THERE IS FAR TOO MUCH OVER EXAGGERATION IN THE FILM AND VERY FEW FIGHT SCENES (WHICH TONY JAA IS KNOWN AND LOVED FOR) WHICH MADE ME CRINGE AND WANT TO ERASE IT FROM MY MEMORY! WORTH STAYING WELL CLEAR OF.

  • Rated - 0 stars

    Incredible worst film ever made

    This is a truly awful film, i love tony jaa films, and i hired this expecting to see action there was one fight scene in the first 35 minutes, even that was painfully slow, at one point they slow the action down so you can see how little impact there is. The one saving grace of the film is the dubbed american version which is the perfect stereo type comedy action film with the over the top laughing from the evil hench men. Avoid this at all costs

      • turnups from Poole
  • Rated - 1 star

    AWFUL

    Wish I had read the reviews before I ordered this. awful awful awful. Fans of Tony Jaa do not rent this it is NOT Ong Bak or any the other Jaa films you may love. I have no idea how to even begin describing this!

      • A customer from kilmarnock
  • Rated - 0 stars

    RUBBISH

    RUBBISH WATCH TONY JAA NEW FILMS ONK-BAK AND WARRIOR KING.

      • danny46 from Chester
  • Rated - 1 star [Highly rated reviewer]

    rammle

    this is a total cash in on the tony jaa brand this isnt ong bak or anything resembeling a decent film this is rammle of the worst kind avoid at costs. watching it dubbed is funny for about 10 mins though then it just gets tedious

      • Julesy from Mansfield
  • Rated - 1 star

    Absolutely Atrocious

    I enjoy Tony Jaa's films and thought this would be a good early film of his. I was very very disappointed. The dialogue and dubbing were awful, we had no idea what was going on and the action scenes were laughable. After fast forwarding through all the rubbish chat and the interminable 'let walk through the jungle' scenes, we saw maybe 10 minutes of film and then turned it off.

    Pick up his later films definitely, give this one a miss.

      • xavierp from Dartford
  • Rated - 0 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    S@#T!

    Words cannot express how awful this film is. I even tried a bit of the dubbed version to see if it was unintentionally funny, but it is just bad! The distributers are advertising this as a Tony Jaa film and he is only in a few (Unimpressive) scenes. You see more of him in the extras, which have nothing to do with this film at all. Even hard core Jaa fans shpuld avoid this one.

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