![]() Action set-pieces aside (the final, 20-minute battle is a jaw-dropper), Ong Bak 2 is a mess. Alas, while Chan turned out to be as good a director and storyteller as he was an artisan of fisticuffs, this directorial debut from Jaa (with Rittikrai, who produced and acted as stunt coordinator on last year's mesmerizing Chocolate) proves that even if you can wrestle with a live crocodile or run atop a surging herd of elephants, that doesn't necessarily mean you can craft a coherent story. ![]() More flexible than Plasticman and more frenetically, kinetically riveting than a tiger, tiger burning bright in Thai forests of the night (Blake might as well have been discoursing on the deeply feral precision and sinewy physicality of the actor), Jaa arrived on the international film scene and was greeted as though he were the second coming of Jackie Chan. Jaa, wiry and intense in the best chop-socky tradition, made an amazing, thrilling impression in that first 2003 film. ![]() Nobody who's seen the original Ong Bak can deny Bangkok-born superstar Jaa's martial arts prowess.
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