At a time when the smallest on-set squabbles get immediately YouTubed out of proportion, here’s one that might make even Christian Bale and Werner Herzog take note: During the filming of the prequel ...

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 ...

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A hit throughout Southeast Asia when it was released last year, "Ong Bak 2" is a throwback to the kung fu flicks of a previous generation. First-rate action scenes alternate with florid melodrama, and ...

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 ...

The 2003 film “Ong Bak” and its exhilarating 2005 successor “The Protector” left no doubt there was a new force in the martial-arts arena: Tony Jaa, a Thai star whose stunts were truly mind-blowing.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...