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Warrior King/ Tom Yum Goong (18)
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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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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
110 |
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ANTI Reviews
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| | Goddammit! Someone has stolen Tony Jaa’s elephants! Now he must fly to Australia to rescue the purloined pachyderms and, with his trademark flying elbows, knees, and crazy stunts, kick the asses of the persons responsible. The story has sort of a retro-cheap, slapped together sort of feel; quite like the Cinemax-grade actioners of the 1980s. You know, the kind whose biggest stars would be Eric Roberts and some anonymous breasts. It’s quite drawn out, and it’s overly serious gangland drama, dramatic as it is ludicrous, had me eyeing the fast forward button more than once. But, then again, no one really watches a Tony Jaa film for its story. The film holds one signature sequence, a roughly five minute fight shot entirely in one long take, following Jaa as he enters a nightclub and proceeds to kick the ass of everyone in his path as he ascends the building’s five stories. People are tossed though banisters, down into the central rotunda, through windows. It’s wonderfully chaotic — choreographing the sequence must have been a nightmare. Fans of Jackie Chan should keep an eye out for multiple nods to Rumble in the Bronx, and a brief cameo by the man himself in the Sydney airport scene. The film is scheduled to be released by a new subsidiary of the Weinstein Company, focusing entirely on Martial Arts films, so expect a trimmed down, restored version of the film at your local Blockbuster in the coming months. Usually I am against the Weinstein treatment of martial arts films, but given this film’s terribly slow story, and the god awful picture on the Thai DVD release, I think it might actually be a vast improvement. | | | (Chris Nelson, Dreamlogic.net) |
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