
Ong Bak
When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a dutiful but
endearingly naive young martial artist is charged to go to the big city and
finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it...
Having drawn incredible comparisons to Bruce Lee and an early Jackie Chan, Thai
sensation, Tony Jaa, bursts onto the scene! Amazingly athletic, not to mention
charismatic, Tony Jaa refuses to countenance the use of props (yes, that's real
glass, barbed wire and metal spikes!), wire enhancement and faked blows. What
full contact you see is most definitely what you get!
Added to this is a gleefully choreographed chase on the highways of Bangkok
involving a fleet of tuk-tuk vehicles (the three-wheeled taxi iconic to
Thailand), knowing location photograpy (visitors to the capital will recognise
Khao San Road and the exterior of top nightclub hangout Suzy's Pub) and, most of
all, an affecting story of one man's struggle to uphold village traditions
against Western modernisation.
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When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a dutiful but
endearingly naive young martial artist is charged to go to the big city and
finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it...
Having drawn incredible comparisons to Bruce Lee and an early Jackie Chan, Thai
sensation, Tony Jaa, bursts onto the scene! Amazingly athletic, not to mention
charismatic, Tony Jaa refuses to countenance the use of props (yes, that's real
glass, barbed wire and metal spikes!), wire enhancement and faked blows. What
full contact you see is most definitely what you get!
Added to this is a gleefully choreographed chase on the highways of Bangkok
involving a fleet of tuk-tuk vehicles (the three-wheeled taxi iconic to
Thailand), knowing location photograpy (visitors to the capital will recognise
Khao San Road and the exterior of top nightclub hangout Suzy's Pub) and, most of
all, an affecting story of one man's struggle to uphold village traditions
against Western modernisation.












