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

Ong Bak 2

I remember watching the first film and being very impressed by it so I decided to give this one I watch.
The one thing I hate when they do a more of a I guess you would say series is they put a "2" on obviously
a prequel. That doesn't make sense to me. This is not a second film it is more of a first they should have called it Ong Bak: The Beginning you know something like that, being that it shows the character of Tien (Tony Jaa)
as a boy learning to fight and growing in to the warrior we see in the original film.
As for the movie itself it of course is like the original very impressive. The music is very dynamic and at times very powerful you feel the characters strength through the music as he fights.
there were some nice sweeping cinematic shots in this and blends well into the music.
The scenes with the elephant were really good I thought they were nicely done as well as the various fights
that is truly the most impressive part of these films you just have to watch them for all the crazy stuff that he does. is there anything Tony Jaa can't do?
well all I can say is this has some amazing visuals and oddly interesting characters (which you sadly don't get to learn hardly anything about) so if you like the original film you might be very interested in seeing this as well if you haven't already.