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One night the head of a statuette called Ong Bak, gets stolen from the little village. A young man called Booting (Tony Jaa) makes it his mission to find the missing head and bring it back to his village. The search leads him to the underworld of Bangkok. And along the way he kick some serious ass. That is pretty much the story, not so thrilling and nothing we haven't seen before.
But what makes this film stick out from all the other martial arts movies, is the breathtaking fight sequences. Forget Jackie Chan and all those other mega superstar fighters. Tony Jaa is the real deal. Some of the stuff he does is beyond my wildest imagination. It's raw and brutal (it's thai boxing for crying out loud). He slides under cars, jumps over cars, makes the most impossible kicks and punches you have ever seen!
But sometimes I found myself a little bored. It's just fight after fight and whenever Jaa make something really cool stunt or some incredible kick or whatever they show the same thing about three times from differnet angels. After a while it gets a little tedious seeing the same thing over and over. But the final fight that takes place in a big cave is totally wild and probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
I thought it was worth go seeing (besides the fact that behind me sat a bunch of idiots that was talking during the whole movie and were acting like total idiots), but it's a fight movie to 100%! So if you're into the heavier kind of martial arts, then Ong Bak is the movie.
Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/indepe..._bak-tlr.html/
But what makes this film stick out from all the other martial arts movies, is the breathtaking fight sequences. Forget Jackie Chan and all those other mega superstar fighters. Tony Jaa is the real deal. Some of the stuff he does is beyond my wildest imagination. It's raw and brutal (it's thai boxing for crying out loud). He slides under cars, jumps over cars, makes the most impossible kicks and punches you have ever seen!
But sometimes I found myself a little bored. It's just fight after fight and whenever Jaa make something really cool stunt or some incredible kick or whatever they show the same thing about three times from differnet angels. After a while it gets a little tedious seeing the same thing over and over. But the final fight that takes place in a big cave is totally wild and probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
I thought it was worth go seeing (besides the fact that behind me sat a bunch of idiots that was talking during the whole movie and were acting like total idiots), but it's a fight movie to 100%! So if you're into the heavier kind of martial arts, then Ong Bak is the movie.
Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/indepe..._bak-tlr.html/
