Ong Bak – The Thai Warrior is a Thai-language martial arts drama film. Directed by Tony Jaa, the plot follows a young villager’s calm life turning into turmoil when a Buddha statue gets stolen from ...

Ever since Bruce Lee's exit from the martial arts scene, genre fans have been desperately seeking a replacement. Jet Li made a run for the crown, but too many bad U.S. films have slowed him down. With ...

NEWS BRIEF: Hong Kong-based distributor O4 Media has announced a strategic partnership with Scott Einbinder’s LA- and Madrid-based studio 5X Media and Sahamongkolfilm International Thailand (SIT) to ...

Chopsocky gets a shot in the arm with this no holds-barred actioner that could propel martial artist Tony Jaa into a career beyond Thai borders. With little plot and a refreshing absence of effects, ...

Prachya Pinkaew's thriller film Ong-Bak (2003) follows the legendary Thai martial arts warrior Muay Thai as he embarks on the quest to restore the revered statue Ong-Bak stolen from Bangkok. Here's ...

Ong Bak is basically the story of one man's quest to find (find here meaning that he kicks copious amounts of villainous ass) and reclaim the stolen head of his small village's local Buddha statue.

Tony Jaa is putting Thailand on the filmmaking map with his jaw-dropping Muay Thai techniques, and it's this impressive talent that makes Ong-Bak such an exciting watch. The script and execution are ...

Half an hour into “Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior” I thought I’d made a terrible mistake. The movie was impossible to follow and appeared to have been shot by blind kids with a Super 8 camera. Shots were ...

It takes a reel or two for the creaky exposition to get out of the way, but the bone-crunching martial-arts saga Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior finally hits its stride by recognizing a cliché and ...