The Protector (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Protector (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: The flying knee had me crying with laughter!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll make this short and sweet: About 15 or so minutes into this movie, Tony Jaa comes flying (literally) into the frame of the picture and delivers a knee to the face of some dude that was so phenomenal - seriously it had me re-winding and crying I was laughing so hard! Remember back in the day when Seagal would snap knees and various limbs on punks who wanted some? Tony Jaa brings it all back, but does it even BETTER!!
Fantastic action movie and the carnage of limb-snapping that goes down at the end of the flick had me and everybody watching it laughing and moaning with imagined pain to the point we were hysterical!
An awesome, hilarious night of action movie fun is to be had when you and your friends throw down with "The Protector". Elephants? Who cares!!! I wouldn't care if he was on a mission to retrieve his pet goldfish!! As long as breaks up people the way he does in this flick, you can't go wrong...
Movie Review: Don't watch the U.S. version
Summary: 5 Stars
Tarantino and co. have cut 30 minutes from the movie and ripped out its heart, in my opinion. The second DVD has the international version which is much better. Its sad to think that so many in the U.S. missed out on the movie and saw a hacked-up sequence of fight scenes.
Easily top 5 for pure martial arts movies.
Movie Review: Tony Jaa has all the moves!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Protector is a great action film. If you like hardcore action and stunts, this is the moive for you. Please see the original Thai version of the film. Movie Review: best action
Summary: 5 Stars
Have to say the story is not very good (dump!!!) However, you can just watch it with out audio and still having a great time.
Tony Jaa used to be a stunt man for many movies including "Mortal Kombat". Therefore, he did all by himself and did not use any stunt man. That was amazing to see human being and do all that without anyhelp from hollywood technology.
I must say that I like "ONG BAK" better. Hopefully "ONG BAK II" will be out to the USA (Ong Bak (part I) did not??!!
Movie Review: The Protector shows some great skills!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is what it should be; an action movie first and foremost. Considering that, the movie is pretty sweet. The action is totally out of control just as you might expect. I do like the realistic style of Tony Jaa when compared to movies like Kung Fu Hustle that are a little too crazy at times but fantastic all around. This movie certainly stretches the imagination and that's why we have them. I can state categorically that if you had issues with "Ong-Bak" because of the storyline then you're going to have exactly the same problems here (and, it has to be said, with just about every modern action movie). But if you were thrilled in any way by Jaa's auspicious career-launcher, then the chances are you're going to find plenty to get excited about in "The Protector."
There were three times during "The Protector" when my jaw hit the floor. The most visually splendiferous is a fight in a burning church that plays almost like a demo mode on a high definition version of Tekken, as Jaa goes up against Eddie Gordo, an armour-free Yoshimitsu and a hulking Craig Marduk ("I'll break your face!"), but all of this is for real and, as ever, effects and wire-work free.
But the real show-stopper, the sequence that every fan of martial arts cinema should see the film for, has Jaa visit a large, three-storey, criminal-run club/restaurant and fight a total of 30 opponents (I counted 'em), smashing them into windows, throwing them through wooden screens, assaulting them with furniture, and even picking them up and hurling them off the balcony into a display two story's below, and it's all done in one, 3 minute 46 second stedicam shot. The planning, timing and stamina required to pull this off are just mind-bending, but pull it off they do - it's a stunning marriage of fight choreography, stunt work and camera direction that actually has a dramatic pay-off when Kham discovers just what is located on the top floor, as darkly and inventively twisted an idea as you'll find in a film all year, and all the more disturbing because it very probably exists.
So yes, the story is flimsy, but "The Protector" delivers where it counts and is an absolute must-see for all genre fans. Jaa confirms his status as the most exciting screen fighter around today, and if he could just drop the MTV visuals and editing and get himself a decent script, then director Petchtai Wongkamlao could yet climb to the very top of the action tree.