Most of the fight scenes with Jackie Chan involve him and a gang attacking the taxi cab driver who they think has the purse with the "evidence," whatever this evidence is. Don't buy this film. It's not a Jackie Chan film. Oh, they have those very annoying old school sound effects.

Tom Yum Goong definitely has some of the best actions scenes known to man. Many of you probably heard of the fight scene where Tony Jaa climbs the stairs of the Tom Yum Goong restaurant, taking on many men for four minutes, all in one take, where one camera follows him the entire time. He takes on an entire X-Games gang, using somersaults and high flips and it's probably the most acrobatic fight ever. Inside of a temple set on fire and flooded with water, takes on a capoeria fighter (probably one of the best one-on-one fights of all time), then taking on an acrobatic wushu sword fighter, and a big, hulky pro wrestler. He takes on a gang of 50 men all in black suits, breaking their bones, and then proceeding to fight the lethal Madame Rose and four hulky pro-wrestlers using elephant bones.

On top of that, this movie is beautifully scored. Every action scene has music that gets your adreneline pumping, and none of it is overdone. This is a far improvement from the repetitive Thai techno track in Ong-Bak that never really helped with the mood of the film.

The action is great, but certain parts of the film need a tune-up. I'll accept a plot about a man looking for his stolen elephants, but certain parts of the movie are just a bit weird. In Sydney, there just happens to a be a Thai female reporter who speeks broken English and can't pronounce her l's. There happens to be various Australian protestors that take interest in the smuggling of Thai elephants to Australia.

Although the action scenes are great, they are all something that wouldn't happen in real life. With the exception of the historical one-take fight scene, it appears that everyone shows up at the right time to get their asses kicked by Tony Jaa. Everyone Tony fights against is pretty much there to show off their skills and see how well they do against him, rather than do their job, and everyone is a victim of Kham's rage, and nobody has the nerve to silence it with a gun. The gang he probably shows the most mercy to is the probably the X-Games gang. Everybody else is unfortunate.

And as for Petchthai Wongkamlao's character, Mark, he would have thrown off of the police force immediately for some of the things he did. And on top of all of that, his English is very horrible. This is very frustrating because [the version I saw had no] English subtitles translating what he's saying.

Well, we don't watch the film for illogistics or anything story-based. Subtitles are not necessary, but are a good bonus... But 30% of the dialouge (at least what dialouge is there in it) is in English anyways. And it's easy to tell what's going on. Besides, there isn't much to translate with Tony Jaa screaming "Where are my elephants" half the time.