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Starring	Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Nathan Jones
Director	Prachya Pinkaew
Genres	Action/Adventure

Warrior King

When a mafia syndicate based in Australia steal Kham's (Tony Jaa, ONG-BAK) beloved elephants from him in Thailand, he travels to Australia to get them back, taking out anyone in his path. The elephants were being prepared to be presented by Kham's family to his Majesty the King of Thailand as a symbol of devotion, so Kham embarks on a dangerous mission to a foreign country in order to rescue the stolen elephants. Along the way, Kham uses his spectacular Muay Thai martial arts skills to dispense with hundreds of mafioso soldiers. Using the same no wireworks, no CGI, no stunt doubles mantra as ONG-BAK, WARRIOR KING is possibly the most frenetic, skilful and kinetic martial arts film made in recent times. Much of the action looks spectacularly dangerous and contact is frequently made between the actors, bringing to mind a more explosive version of films made by Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung in the 1980s. The most visually stunning moment occurs when Jaa embarks on mission to get to the top of a staircase in a mafia brothel, pummelling scores of opponents on the way. This all takes place during a glorious four-minute long take. Tony Jaa once again demonstrates why he is the most exciting martial arts actor to have emerged in the 2000s with a display of supreme agility, skill and bone-crunching power.

Starring	Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Nathan Jones
Director	Prachya Pinkaew
Studio	E1 ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 49 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure
Language	DVD: Thai, English
Released	DVD: 30 Oct 2006
Format	DVD

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Kham (Tony Jaa) is a naïve country boy who lives by a strict regime of selflessness, philanthropy and skull-crushing... read more on Time Out
- David Jenkins,
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008
It kicks ass
- Loaded
- Posted 08 Oct 2007
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38 out of 46 people found this review helpful

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?
- - Paulie from London
  - Posted 26 Mar 2007 13:05
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10 out of 14 people found this review helpful

SECOND ANSWER TO YOUR PRAYERS . . .

Originaly titled TOM YUM GOONG

This movie should come with a WARNING

'If you watch TONY JAA kick some serious butt, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, other talents not as well known as these three and maybe, just maybe, the Bruce Lee films wont quite cut it anymore'

Infact you may aswell chuck em out your dvd collection except the Bruce Lee movies, he is a legend ofcourse & there will be no one like him, ever . .

But before you watch this make sure you see ONG BAK first, trust me, this movie takes the action up a gear or two.

Plot isnt worth mentioning, if anything it would probably spoil the film, honestly!

I reckon it would only divert your attention from the many PHENOMENAL ACTION SCENES.

They look & feel so real, the camera hardly changes from 1 to another that so many action fims annoyingly do, as you hear the bones crunch, as he performs amazing acrobatics & stunts, a hurly burly brawl keanu reeves would dream of, a mesmerising fight with a guy performing brazilian martial arts, one & one fight with a 7ft ex-wrestler(I know!)

A 4min non stop action scence as the camera man follows him from a basement up to the higher level of a building & i havent quite finished yet!!

You need to watch the scences again & again thinking 'whoah, did that really happen??'

Tony Jaa is a living legend, he is quite simply amazing, modern day answer to Bruce Lee but Bruce Lee he is not, he deserves his own identity.

Dont know wether he should learn english & crack hollywood because hollywood will simply not allow for this!

But enjoy while hes still pure . . currently filming ONG BAK 2

Now, go get this film, lock yourself away from the world and enjoy . .
- - Eltaf Rehman from Birmingham, England
  - Posted 12 Nov 2006 23:21
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