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  Review by Carlos_Adama ★★★★ 1

  I watched this film when it came out and I haven't been able to stop elbowing people in the face ever since.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 1

  Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes

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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★★★ 3

  (Episode 1 of The "I have always wanted to watch that" Podcast with Marvin123)

  Elbows to the head!!!!!!

  "Come on! Fuck Muay Thai!"

  Can you think of a movie you have always wanted to see, but for some reason or another you have kept pushing off watching it? Well in my all-new podcast adventure "I have always wanted to watch that", I am checking some of these movies out with different guests, that inspired me to finally see them. So for my first episode, I chatted with my long time letterboxd pal Marvin123 about the thrilling action flick Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior.

  This movie is an absolute blast, as we follow a kick ass fighter from a small village,…

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  Review by Sin ✊🏿 ★★½ 25

  Yeah, I'm late to the party on this one, but it isn't like I was missing much.

  Ong Bak has strong 90s vibes insofar as the generic techno soundtrack, general silliness, story tropes, cartoonish antagonists, and action set piece choices.

  Top reasons why Ong Bak is mainly entertaining but mediocre:

  1️⃣ Tony Jaa is undoubtedly a super talented acrobat and martial artist. However, he has the personality of a potato in the lead role as Ting. He's a subpar actor (at best) and he lacks charisma.

  2️⃣ The repetitive double/triple takes and slow motion--often used to highlight the "cool feats" of a very athletic Tony Jaa--got really tiresome really fast. And actually, this gimmick editing disrupted the action sequence flow…

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  Review by Mike Ginn ★★★½

  The stunts in this are so good they seem unethical

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★½ 3

  Cinematic Time Capsule
  2003 Marathon - Film #16

  ”I have taught you the art of Muay Thai... Now I ask you never to use it”

  A village’s sacred artifact has been stolen! Now faster than you can say, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” Tony Jaa volunteers to travel to Bangkok and recover the stolen arifact by exploiting the very powers that he literally just swore he would never use.

  And so begins Tony Jaa’s road to international stardom in this martial arts breakout film of 2003 in which Jaa famously does his own stunts, and all of the jaw dropping fights were performed with no wires or CGI enhancements.

  It’s fast and it’s furious, with high speed tuk-tuk…

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  Review by Paul Robinson ★★★★ 1

  I watched The Raid again for the umpteenth time yesterday and it always impresses, it also got my taste buds tingling for a dose of highly skilled choreography and fighting... Particularly people getting elbowed in the head so hard their skulls cave in.... hmmm... A great reason to dust off Ong-Bak and let Tony Jaa do the talking, well... less of the talking preferably as he sounds like a 10 year old boy and the script was penned / crayoned by someone of a similar age. Let’s press play, sit back and let Tony do what he does best: kick, elbow, knee, slide, split, clobber and generally annihilate the opposition in an array of wonderful technical and elaborate set pieces.…

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★½

  The script ain't worth shite! What makes this film special... is the beautifully choreographed and extraordinary martial arts, the parkour and the vessel housing this talent Mr. Tony Jaa! The lack of CGI and so called Wire Fu, and stunt doubles makes this film even more impressive!

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  Review by Graham

  The choreography in this first of the Ong-Bak trilogy of films is really impressive, especially the foot race to the top of a huge tree and a scene where our hero is being chased through the streets by a gang of baddies. In the brochure for this one the strapline is:

  "No computer graphics. No stunt doubles. No wires."

  That being the case, this is doubly impressive.

  The storyline is pretty interesting too, with our main man Ting travelling from his rural village to the big city to recover a culturally important item that has been stolen by the local mob. The "I only do martial arts for my inner-peace and am not really a fighter" trope is wheeled out…

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  Review by oleff 1

  never seen a flying double uppercut before this movie

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★★

  "Come on!!!!! Fuck Muay Thai" - Big Bear,

  Big Bear should've kept his mouth shut.

  Outstanding action and a silly script. The talking parts are horrendous but the good news is that once you make it past the first 20 minutes you rarely have to worry about that. This is some of the best fight choreography I have ever seen in film and the free running stunts are at times unbelievable. Tony Jaa is simply a marvel and I look forward to seeking him out in other things.

  This is so much fun.

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  Review by Damon (大文) ★★★½ 1

  the fight club scenes had me smiling and shit, reminded me of an activity from gta 4 gay tony and for some reason 8 mile came to mind? would cut down the parkour chase (slowly became a circus act) and some moments. anyways who you think gonna win bruce lee or tony jaa