But when a gangster steals the head of Ong-Bak, his villages deity. Given the madness on display in Ong Bak 2, I expect it will be set in Precambrian Thailand and Tony Jaa will play a trilobite taking revenge on the nautiloids who killed his parents and using his martial arts powers alone, he will grow his very own exoskeleton on-screen without using special effects or trick photography. Superstar Tony Jaa electrifies as a religious young warrior who swears an oath of peace. Ong Bak 3 is slated to hit screens by the end of this year. And how can you hate a movie that climaxes in a moment of deus ex pachyderma before springing a “clap if you believe in fairies” audience-participation stunt designed to bring on an Ong Bak 3 through sheer willpower?Īpparently, it worked. There’s the loopy moment in the middle when Jaa pulls the emergency brake and stages a riveting folk dance, performing a perfect khon, Thailand’s most rigorous dance form. The screen is stuffed with a gallery of grotesques, some of Thailand’s best character actors, who spend their time bleeding, bellowing, and slurping up eyeballs. Oddly enough, it’s when the action of Ong Bak 2 stops that this funkadelic freakshow shines.
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