Movie reviews: Ong

Ong-Bak; The Thai Warrior definitely has some of the best martial arts fighting scenes in films of the action genre today. Usually you do not see a lot of Muay Thai fighters and Tony Jaa was a pleasure to watch. He was poetry in motion, he was almost better then Jet Li, almost but not quite.

Our story opens with the purchase of a sacred amulet gone wrong and to get back at the owner of the amulet the criminal mastermind sneaks back into the village undercover of darkness and steals the head of Ong-Bak the sacred Thai Buddha. In the morning the theft is discovered and the young Ping (Jaa) volunteers to go to Bangkok and recover the head of the statue, which is the focal point of the villages upcoming ceremony believed to bring rain to the drought stricken area. While he is in Bangkok he is forced to use his most excellent fighting skills in an underground fighting club to earn some extra cash on his way to recovering Ong-Bak.

This is a Thai dubbed in english, and it also has english subtitles. I would rent this flick before buying, you might not be as mesmerised with it as I was.