joseg3192 This is a bad movie. Throughout the whole movie I kept cringing at every time there was a cut in a scene, for some reason the cuts look so jarringly bad. Probably because the scenes are so poorly written or because the director doesn't know how to shoot anything except for fight sequences and even that he manages to mess up, but I'll get to that later. On top of that Tony Jaa, or any of the actors for that matter, has no screen presence, every single one of his acting scenes comes off as awkwardly reading lines. To add to the suffering none of the lines have any depth, they're all saying what they're expected to say and saying exactly what they feel. The only time that we are relieved of this painful experience is when the fight sequences save the movie from being a complete disaster. The fight sequences in this movie, like in many other more modern martial arts films, seem to be more Americanized and have become very quick and brutal action. What I mean by that is that they still employ the martial arts aspect or style, but the fights are becoming more and more like fight sequences in the Rocky franchise, where the opponents punch each other like punching bags until one gives out. This is a change in modern martial arts films that I am not liking, I liked the older films because it was almost like a game of chess. In the older movies the fights were a series of exchanges between the fighters, usually lasting in punch, block, counter, punch, etc. and then finally one of the fighters lands a blow. It seems more skillful that way and even more suspenseful, both fighters seem to be evenly matched, they are thinking and out thinking the opponent, countering then countering some more until one of them slips and bang, the fighter took advantage of the slip up. It's almost like a war, where every exchange between the opponents is a battle, the fight is very undecided and very back and forth until the hero hopefully defeats his opponent, thus winning the war. These newer martial arts films seem to be more like a game of checkers, bang bang bang, very little set up and a lot of action. Part of the mysticism of the martial arts genre is how the fighters keep calm under a fight and don't break out of their stance and just start brawling, that probably has to do with the fact that martial arts is a discipline, this aspect seems to carry over to the genre and make the fights look like a dance (something pretty). That's not to say that there aren't one sided ass kickings in the older films, but that's only to imply dominance or mastery of martial arts. The point I'm trying to make is that none of the fight sequences here are pretty, from a visual, or choreographed point of view, they seem like a Transformers fight sequence but with people. Another thing I disliked in this film was how some of the cuts were made during a fight sequence. I remember one where Tony Jaa does a flip to kick the opponent and the camera cuts to a different angle where Jaa is in mid air then lands the kick. I'm here thinking "why did he cut?" and it's because Jaa couldn't land that kick for safety reason, so they cut to one where he did land it. Now I don't have a problem with taking safety measures but if a cut is going to take me out of the action sequence like that then find another way to film it or don't do that particular kick if it's too elaborate or complicated. You've already wowed most of your audience with some of the other stuff in the fight, you're doing too much at that point, take it out and find something else, something more creative. Anyhow, the story in this film is pretty weak. There's a MacGuffin elephant, Jaa has to save it, and puts him on course for all the action. Nonetheless, this has it's fan base, people looking for punches and kicks to the face and all other areas, but this just isn't for me, as a martial arts fan or as someone looking for story.

Maniac-9 Just like all of Tony Jaa's movies they all use the style of Muay Thai fighting over the more used arts of Kung Fu and Karate, which is a nice change of pace and adds a bit different of a style to the fight scenes. He continues the same great quality of fight scenes that he did in the Ong Bak trilogy, which was his career starter.The plot of the movie is fairly simple but you're not going to see this movie to see a plot that's going to win the screenwriter any academy awards. The plot for the most part is just there to tie the action together which it does quite well. If you go to this movie expecting to see what the movie promises to deliver(a bunch of bad ass fights and acrobatic action) then thats exactly what this movie provides for you.Tony Jaa is basically the modern day Bruce Lee or the same as what Jet Li and Jackie Chan did in their primes.

GodzillaVSJaws in the 80s we action film fans had a lot going for us. Because the action stars back then actually had real fighting experience. Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, and of course jackie chan , sammo hung, and yuen biao. The problem is, now all of these people are old no longer making any movies. So, what are we to do? Well luckily some Thailand action buffs thought the same thing, and thus Tony Jaa was born. You really have to be a true action film fan to appreciate the action stardom that Tony Jaa has. He is "the next great one", and his films deserve to be honored by the likes of those good old action classics. could talk all day but sadly i have a life and must go back to-oh who am i kidding, IMDb still has not posted My review of the worst movie of 2008; The Dark Knight.

freemantle_uk Tony Jaa is properly the best material artist around at the moment and he is gaining cult following, especially with fans of material arts films. Jaa first came to the world's attention after the excellent Ong-Bak which was an action film with no special effects.Warrior King is the follow up to Ong-Bak, seeing Tony Jaa and director Prachya Pinkaew reunite. The plot of the film is Kham (Tony Jaa) and his father (Sotorn Rungruaeng) rise Indian elephants and Kham's father hopes his elephant Por Yai would be presented to the King of Thailand for ceremonial reasons. Por Yai had a calf, Kohrn, and Kham as a teenager develop a close bond to Kohrn. Thai gangsters steal the elephants during the inspection of Por Yai and Kham's father is shot and wounded. Kham finds out that the elephants were taken to Sydney and he goes to try and find them. Whilst in the city he has to take on a underworld of Asian gangsterism in Sydney. In Australia Kham ends up befriending and working with Sergeant Mark (Petchtai Wongkamlao), a Sydney police-officer from Thailand and Pla (Bongkoj Khongmalai) a Thai woman forced to be a call-girl.The plot is similar to Ong-Bak, and is very thin. But that's what most material-art films are like, and I don't care. The main thing you are concerned are the action scenes, and they are top-notch. Tony Jaa beats up a lot of people in this film. Bongkoj Khongmalai does the action with relish and unlike films like the Bourne Films which use shaky cam and quick editing, Khongmalai uses steady cam and no-editing, especially a scene where Kham has to fight his way up four floors in a building. Some of the acting is a little ropey, but as I said it's the action that manners. Warrior King is a mighty entertaining film.