"Ong Bak 2" is a throwback to the kung fu flicks of a previous generation. First-rate action scenes alternate with florid melodrama, and jaw-dropping stunts try to compensate for saccharine plot ...

Ong Bak 2 is a Thai-language martial arts drama film helmed by Panna Rittikrai and Tony Jaa. The storyline follows a young orphaned boy who miraculously survives the bloodshed in his childhood and ...

Thai martial-arts star Tony Jaa returns in this prequel to Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003). Dispensing with the acrobatic fisticuffs and gritty Bangkok locales that elevated its predecessor to a ...

Bruce Lee has left us, and Jackie Chan and Jet Li are slowing down, but the world of martial arts never sleeps. It's Tony Jaa who's keeping everyone awake these days. He's Thailand's biggest action ...

Many will argue that Tony Jaa is one of the most impressive martial arts actors alive today up there with the likes of Jet Li. His first film, Ong Bak from 2003, was what put him in the spotlight here ...

Last year, film writer Matt Zoller Seitz wrote a defense of the much-maligned "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," in which he recalled his first viewing of the movie in 1984. "It was the first ...

Arguably the most anticipated Thai movie ever, Tony Jaa's "Ong Bak 2" premiered this week to thousands of filmgoers happy to get a break from the real-life political drama playing out in the streets ...

HONG KONG — Powerful debuts put new films at the top of the charts in Thailand and Asia’s three biggest box office territories, Japan, South Korea and China. Noisiest start was made by “Ong bak 2,” ...

Ong Bak 2 isn't a movie; it's a videogame. Lacking the elements which generally constitute a film – little things like story or character or performance – Tony Jaa's MMA follow-up is difficult to ...

Dir: Tony Jaa and Panna Rittikrai. Thailand. 2009. 110 mins. Considering the high level of martial-arts spectacle unleashed in 2003 Thai action film Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, it’s perhaps inevitable ...