ONG-BAK: MUAY THAI WARRIOR d: Prachya Pinkaew

Ong-Bak / Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior / Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2003)
Direction: Prachya Pinkaew
Screenplay: Prachya Pinkaew and Panna Rittikrai
Cast: Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao
 

 
Fans of the martial arts genre should enjoy Prachya Pinkaew’s Ong-bak / Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior, the tale of a young man lost in the city jungle while hunting for ruthless art smugglers who have stolen the head of his Thai village’s Buddha statue. That said, Ong Bak will probably fail to win many converts.
The film’s chief problem lies in Pinkaew and Panna Rittikrai’s screenplay, which happens to be a pile of hoary clichés — e.g., country people = kindness, courage, honest labor, love, tree-climbing; city people = dishonesty, cowardice, easy money, sex, fight-clubbing. [...]

by Andre Soares | November 25, 2004   
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