Warrior King Details

Kick ass

If you love martial arts done properly watch this you will love it, if not don't even think about it. The plot is ridiculous, acting terrible but when this man clenches his fists sit back & wonder how anyone can move like that. Crouching Tiger it isnt but the fight scenes turn this into something special which is the whole point of a martial arts movie, isn't it?

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Great fighting.. poor everything else.

As a demonstration of Tony Jaa's skills this is a great film. As a film, or anything else, it suffers badly from a weak plot, two dimensional characters and minimal acting. All in all it felt to me like a few people got together and had all these cool ideas for fight sequences and stunts, and then tried to come up with some plot to tie them all together; possibly throwing out several good ideas along the way. Surely chasing after an elephant was fairly low on the list? Whoever decided to utilise CGI in the film should preferably be taken away some place safe and never let near a film again. In all cases when it was used it stood out like a sore thumb and drew me away from what was taking place.

That said, if you're prepared to switch your brain off and enjoy it purely for the fighting, then you're in for some very impressive sequences; in particular the 4 minute, single shot sequence. A warning to the squeamish: The sound of bones breaking occurs frequently throughout the film.

To be honest though, you'd be much better served by watching Ong Bak. Same style fighting, slightly better plot, a number of the same actors, and much, much better put together.