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The Protector
A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.
Release : | 2005 |
Rating : | 7 |
Studio : | The Weinstein Company, Baa-Ram-Ewe, Sahamongkolfilm, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Cinematography, |
Cast : | Tony Jaa Petchtai Wongkamlao Bongkoj Khongmalai Jin Xing Nathan Jones |
Genre : | Drama Action Thriller Crime |
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Please don't spend money on this.
Beautiful, moving film.
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
WARRIOR KINGBloody hell... this guys really doesn't hold back!This film is about a kid growing up in a family that respects elephants. He has two elephants that he loves, but when his father gets killed and the elephants stolen and deported to Australia. He goes on a mission to find them and bring them back.This is a moving story and very nice. The elephants look so nice and the relationship they have with the boy is amazing. They are very protective.The action is also very brutal. He is an amazing fighter, and when he is fighting it reminds me of a more brutal, serious Jackie Chan. He is jumping, flipping and kicking all over the place. It all looks so real too... there are scenes where I was thinking he actually was hitting the other actors... it looked so painful and realistic. There is also a fantastic fighting scene which was all shot from one camera and didn't cut away... it was a long scene and the fighting was amazing... it was very well put together.There is also another scene that I loved where so many people got their legs and arms broken. It was just snap snap snap... It made me cringe a bit, but it was just a great scene.The acting was alright... Tony Jaa plays the main character. He does a great job. You can see the emotion in his role towards these elephants.There were a couple of funny moments in the film. I quite like the fact that this film had a few different elements in it. Comedy, action, drama and thriller.The film is mostly spoken in Thai, so if you don't like movies with subtitles, then you won't really enjoy this. Subtitles never really bothered me. In fact some of my favourite movies are Japanese horrors.I will give this film 7 out of 10.Very entertaining and a lot of ass kicking! The other actors must have woken up either very sore or in hospital the day after shooting this movie.For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl
Tom Yum Goong (The Protector) is that kind of film that will make you an admirer of Tony Jaa from the word go!Its the kind of film where story is just an excuse to show off the brilliant action skills of the lead actor.It belongs to the genre of all those Bruce Lee and Chan films. Tony Jaa himself is like an updated version of both combined together.A legend in his own right. There is nothing that he doesn't seem to know - Muay Thai, Taekwondo, Kick boxing, Gymnastics, Parkour .... you name it and he has got it! The perfect fully loaded action hero.My personal favorite scenes are one in the warehouse where he beats a gang of 20-25 people and it looks believable yet spectacular. His fight with the Capoeira fighter Lateef Crowder and finally, that bone-breaking spree scene which in my opinion,is the greatest action scene in cinema history.Highly recommended!
First off I unlike most people enjoy the revenge plot with kung fu movies. But this movie was worse than the new Godzilla movies in production. Usually kung fu flicks are fluid, but this one is like a rip off of the third sequel to Transporter or Rumble in the Bronx.It was bad on an unbelievable level. The plot wholes are unforgivable.It's not always just about kung fu like I said. I do enjoy entire movies.On a good note I got laid during it. So I guess it's a good date movie! But really guys if you want a good kung fu movie watch 36 Chambers of the Shaolin, Fist of Legend, Fearless, The Street Fighter, Fist of Fury, Police Story or Ong Bak 1 or 2.This one will disappoint. It's confusing why its not the watch now on netflix and the Ong Baks are on there. I look forward to the next Ong Bak. But this was so bad i turned it off eventually. Movies should get better not worse.
I tried this one twice when I started doubting myself given the favorable reviews. No luck this really is just a stupid movie with some big stunts.Ong Bak really set the bar for Tony Jaa and this films departure from such a successful formula into Tony Jaa VS Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles,DayGlo-motocross-riding, street-gang-hoodlums in Sydney just didn't lift my skirt.Like Jackie Chan's Australian film (whatever it is called) it's weak and feels like 'Hollywood on the Goldcoast'. Unlike Chan's Rumble In The Bronx which went all out for cartoon silliness and was much more successful.There may be some great stunts and if you can watch a film purely for that then this one might be the greatest film you've ever seen.