Who Am I? (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure One of my favorite HK films. Is it perfect? Hardly, but the fights are top notch and show Jackie before all his stunts broke him.
Ichi (product link) Martial Arts / Drama Very entertaining period action film. Some of the drama seems strained, but the story is good, so I'm willing to look past forced plot points like accidental blindings.
Chocolate [2008] (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure The film starts off slow, but more than makes up for it with a final fight scene that can't be missed.
Cromartie High School: The Movie (product link) Comedy / Nonsense Comedy Having never read the manga, I have a sneaking suspicion that I didn't completely get the film. But it was silly and entertaining in its own right, and I'm a huge Yoshihiro Takayama fan, which makes up for a lot.
Azumi 2 (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure Assassins in love? I spent the entire film waiting for a huge end fight like in the first film and was never paid off.
This film is a mess. It's like they had the idea for a beginning and ending and had no clue how to get from one point to the other, so they threw in some training scenes, some emo cutting and flashbacks.
One would think that if you were able to beat all the masters of pirate school, you'd be able to beat them again at the end fight. One would also think that when you became the leader of the pirates, they'd tell you that they're actually assassins for the king. One would think that if you were going to introduce a love interest, and make it so obvious that you have a long cut to the bracelet Tony Jaa gave to her, you'd make it pan out. And finally one would think that if you named the film "Ong-Bak 2", you'd have more to do with elephants than a throw away scene where Jaa slaps the elephant on the head to show dominance.
Some of the fight scenes were good, but at the end of the day, if I want to watch drunken boxing or samurai fights, there are plenty of other films that do it better. I buy Tony Jaa films for Muay Thai, I'm not sure why he's wasting his time doing anything else.
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Yes, I agreed with the story part, it sucks in the middle. But I watch action movies for the action, just give me mostly action and I'm happy. I also agree with Cinema, how many more Muay Thai moves can a guy do.
Tony is such a multi - talented master fighter it would be unwise to be the same character doing the same thing. If all you want to see is Muay Thai stick with the first Ong Bak and TYG.
Lucky Stars Go Places (product link) Comedy / Nonsense Comedy An uninspired attempt to reboot the "Lucky Stars" franchise. The original lucky stars make a brief appearance before bring arrested in a convenient plot twist, leaving Sammo to form a new group, which he immediately leaves to harass a woman who's there only to be harassed. At this point I stopped the film and put in "Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars" to get the taint of a bad film off of me.
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