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Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (Widescreen) (Dual-layered DVD)
- Starring: Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Pumwaree Yodkamol
- Director: Prachya Pinkaew
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Thai stuntman Tony Jaa makes his starring debut in this martial arts action film directed by Prachya Pinkaew. Ja plays Ting, a young man living in a village in rural Thailand. Discovered as an infant on the steps of the town's temple and raised by monks who taught him the Thai martial art of muay thai, Ting is sent to Bangkok when the head of the town's statue of the Buddha, to which they pray to bring the annual rains to their drought-stricken region, is stolen. The country boy is plunged into the big city's seething criminal underworld, and forced to use his fighting skills to dispatch a parade of thugs in an underground fight club on his way to finding the criminal mastermind who stole the Buddha head so he can return it before drought and starvation bring his hometown to ruin. Tom Vick, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Category: Martial Arts
- Theme: Heroic Mission, Lone Wolves, Righting the Wronged
- Release Date: August 30, 2005
- Rating: R (Restricted)Rating Opens in New Window - Violence
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Lead Actors: Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Pumwaree Yodkamol, Rungrawee Borrijindakul, Chetwut Wacharakun
- Supporting Actors: Sukhaaw Phongwilai
- Director: Prachya Pinkaew
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 1 hr 45 min
- Subtitle Language: Spanish
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 058-17-1013
- ASIN: B002FOFOVE
- Catalog #: 11299225
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.4 inches length x 5.4 inches width x 0.6 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.25 pound.
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Ong-Bak Muay Thai Warrior is pure, grade-A corny fun. Strictly following the martial arts film playbook, director Prachya Pinkaew uses a paper-thin, utterly predictable plot to set up a string of fights and chase scenes designed to show off the considerable talents of his energetic star, Tony Jaa. These include a footrace through the streets of Bangkok during which he leaps over cars, slips between two planes of glass, and dives through a coil of barbed wire two guys just happen to be loading onto a truck. His opponents at the fight club, each one more menacing than the last, are like comic book monsters made flesh. And of course, there's a merciless villain behind it all who must be vanquished in a final showdown. All of this is accomplished with sufficient flair, though Pinkaew's habit of showing Yeerum's more awesome stunts three times each becomes, well, repetitious, and saps some of the energy from the action scenes. The film is, after all, a bid to catapult Jaa into the ranks of international action stars like Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Tony uses an indigenously Thai martial art form that, in the movie at least, involves a lot of leaping and flying elbows. In one memorable scene, it also includes jumping off a tall platform, knees first, into a prone bad guy. Impressively, he does it all without wires or digital effects. A perfect, if formulaic, showcase for its star's skills, this film delivers exactly what it promises. Tom Vick, All Movie Guide
