I am a huge fan of Jaa's films ong bak and warrior king, as some thing of a fan of martial arts films i was pleased with originality that these brought such as the repeated scenes from other angles as with ong bak.
I had heard that this movie had ground to a halt due to production problems so when I got the chance to see it i was pleased.
A fractured start opens this but this is explained during further acts in the film. Unfortunately during his hiatus Jaa or the film producers seem to have watched some of the seminal martial art movies such as jackie chans drunken master and snake in the eagles shadow and some of jet li's original work. This is not to say to the movie isn't fun but it does lack the originality of the Jaa movies I've mentioned before.
What is new is the use of weaponry in this film but I must say that Jaa seems uncomfortable with it, the editing where he uses it seems full of snap shots and fast forwarding. The hand to hand scenes are however superb.
The final 20 minutes or so are high quality and I would recommend any fan to watch for this reason alone but on a whole I expected better.
It would be nice to see Tony Jaa in a buddy movie with a more main stream action star, (I would like to say Jet Li), to see what the result would be but I get the unfortunate feeling that it won't happen.
I had heard that this movie had ground to a halt due to production problems so when I got the chance to see it i was pleased.
A fractured start opens this but this is explained during further acts in the film. Unfortunately during his hiatus Jaa or the film producers seem to have watched some of the seminal martial art movies such as jackie chans drunken master and snake in the eagles shadow and some of jet li's original work. This is not to say to the movie isn't fun but it does lack the originality of the Jaa movies I've mentioned before.
What is new is the use of weaponry in this film but I must say that Jaa seems uncomfortable with it, the editing where he uses it seems full of snap shots and fast forwarding. The hand to hand scenes are however superb.
The final 20 minutes or so are high quality and I would recommend any fan to watch for this reason alone but on a whole I expected better.
It would be nice to see Tony Jaa in a buddy movie with a more main stream action star, (I would like to say Jet Li), to see what the result would be but I get the unfortunate feeling that it won't happen.