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Ong-bak is a asian martial arts films. Now as i'm sure you all know these films can be very bad. A lot of martial arts films can be drawn out and just look very unrealistic. But the advantage of Ong-bak is that it doesn't suffer at all from this problem.

Ong-bak is a very basic story. The head of Ong-bak, which is the Budda of the small village is stolen just before a cermony thats takes place only once every 23 years. The rest of the movie is a quest by Phanom Yeerum(Tony Jaa) to recover the head.

The story however is not the reason you go see this movie. The fighting is. Tony Jaa who is being touted as the new jackie Chan is simply amazing in this his first film. This biggest selling point of this film is that Tony Jaa does all his own stunts with no wires and very little special effects. In fact afteer seeing this film Mr Jaa could be his own special effect. The fights in this movie are just excellent, you will find yourself wincing everytime a big hit is put on the so-so fighters.

Ong-bak is a perfect start for Tony Jaa's career. I hope there are a lot more movies with this guy. I just can't to get the DVD of this one.

Rating: 7/10