Ong Bak 3

The craziness continues!

This picks up right after the events of Ong Bak 2 (so if you didn't
see the second you should probably do that first) and Tien (Tony Jaa)
after fight to the end and being beaten is captured and torchered. I thought
there were some especially brutal scenes in the torcher sequence with the guy
taking huge hammers to Jaa's joints.
After that he is sentenced to death but is rescued and take to a village
where he is put on the path to recovery. While this is all going on some
memorable characters from the second make some appearances.
such as the crazy guy with the crazy hair and the weird Crow person
who as a bigger role in this one. A lot of the humor is handled by "Crazy hair guy"
while Crow Person is set up as the main villain after they behead the emperor during
a fight scene when Crow uses their supernatural powers
to take out all of the empiors men and the empior letting Crow take over.
Meanwhile.. through the miracle of eastern mystical medicine Jaa is brought
back to life yet some what crippled, he then with the help of a monk goes
on some sort of vision quest which heals the rest of his body and his mind.
Which of course leads to a... training montage!!!
after the miracles of the training montage he is a great a powerful warrior
who can take out 10 guys with the flick of a wrist! with this strength
he goes to confront Crow. Now the fight sequence during the eclipse was
probably one of the most craziest of all time!
it was truly awesome and at the end Jaa get stabbed through the heart
with a spear and you think its the end but he some how pulls a
Christopher Reeve's Superman and some how reverses time
ending the eclipse and removing Crows supernatural powers.
Once that is done Jaa lays into Crow and it becomes a Light (Jaa) VS. Darkness (Crow)
type of fight which I don't think was as good as the one before he reversed time.
in the end Jaa wins and everyone is happy.
This was a quick movie and was a basic "Hero Returns" type of story
where the second one left on a somewhat of a cliffhanger where you see
him get his ass handed to him. The sets were simple but cool , the music
was great and very dramatic and the stunts/fights
were of course beyond impressive you just want to watch this movie just to
see Tony Jaa doing all kinds of crazy stuff. It was a good fun watch though
and finished off the story from the previous film which was its main goal