My review of Ong Bak 2 is about as wishy washy as they come. Tony Jaa set out to improve the mythology of his Ong Bak series by setting it in a feudal period of Thailand and broadenning the scope out to Peter Jacksonian proportions but he bit off more than he could chew. The resulting nonsense cost Sahamongkol a lot of money and practically ran Jaa right out of Thailand. Were it not for his mentor, Panna Rittikrai, the whole thing would have gone down the toilets and we would have been left with nothing. Ultimately, Ong Bak 2 was as shallow as its contemporaries, but hot damn! did that movie have some great fighting and stunts! So here we are again, picking up where 2 left off. Jaa has been taken captive and beaten down. Want to bet that he somehow finds a way to turn the tables on his captors and kill everyone with raw Muay Thai fury?
I’m not sure what the actual release date is but word has it that we can expect Ong Bak 3 to hit DVD later this year.
March 7, 2010 8:41 am
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