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Warrior King/ Tom Yum Goong (18)
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| Tookey's Rating |
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4
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4.00
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| Starring |
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Tony Jaa, Phettkai Wongkamlao, Bongkod Kongmalai
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Directed by:
Prachya Pinkaew
Written by:
Napalee, Piyaros Thongdee, Joe Wannapin, Kongdej Jaturanrasmee; story by Prachya Pinkaew
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| Released: |
2005 |
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THRILLER
ACTION
FOREIGN
CRIME
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Thailand |
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C |
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| Length: |
110 |
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Athletic violence but a lame script. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| This movie has one of the weirdest premises ever: it’s essentially the story of a man trying to find his best friend, who happens to be an elephant. How do you lose an elephant, I hear you cry. | | Let me explain. Thailand’s martial arts star of the moment, Tony Jaa, plays a naive country boy from a remote Thai village who looks after a family of elephants, one of which he has reared from birth. This is one of a pair of pachyderms stolen to make unlikely gourmet food by a Chinese gang based in Sydney. So this simple country boy with anger management issues (imagine Wayne Rooney with a bigger vocabulary) has to travel to Australia and cope with the worst the criminal underworld there can throw at him - mainly fists, feet and atrocious dialogue. | | Jaa’s previous venture in celluloid sadism, Ong Bak, received many rave reviews for its action sequences, and fans of outrageous fights and chases will treasure many of the stunts, which are performed without wires or special effects. This gives them a very different, more realistic feel than anything in The Matrix films and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragopn. It should go without saying that Warrior King is incredibly brutal and utterly lacking in humanity. The acting is dreadful; and the fact that much of it is in very broken English renders it even more laughable. | | But then you don’t go to this kind of film expecting an Oscar-winning screenplay. You attend for the action and violence. This movie certainly delivers both to its target audience, which is not one that I would care to encounter even on a light night. | |
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