I just got back from this flick, and damn! I honestly can't express how much fun I had watching this. The violence is real and looks horribly painful. Tony Jaa is the martial artist I always wanted to see in a martial arts flick, he's obscenely fast, powerful, and if you see it keep in mind that he doesn't use any wires or nets for his stunts. The man is in the air jumping off people's shoulders without the use of wires. It's fucking amazing and the whole movie is just this amazing ride. Stunts and hits are replayed at different angles in slo-mo so you can actually see what crazy shit just happened.

Check this one out, it's not often I gush over an action flick.

I want to see this one too. See, the most recent rush of asian import movies really had me disliking the genre as a whole - I really didn't like the super-wired and special-effect'd look on a lot of the more recent ones. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and also Hero really really disappointed me. Pretensious, over-complicated storylines didn't help. Iron Monkey I enjoyed because it was a lot more toned down in terms of fakeness, and that kid was hilarious when he was kicking the asses of all those theives.

When I saw the commercial for Ong-Bak, I was hooked by the fact that they didn't even pretend there was a story worth paying attention to, just a pleasant feeling of "OH GOD LOOK AT THEIR ASSES BEING HANDED TO THEM. OLD SKOOL!"

Same here! I just can't appreciate the artsy asian flicks with random floating and all. Iron Monkey was cool and pretty hilarious, I enjoyed that one as well.

Ong Bak is more along the lines of an old Bruce Lee flick, just an excuse to show off how much ass he can kick and how well he can do it. And it's awesome.

I think you'll enjoy it a ridiculous amount!

No doubt. I didn't think it was possible for a man to put a beatdown on somebody, and also take a beating, as much as Tony Jaa does in this movie. Wasn't crazy about the triple replays, but it was still friggin' cool. And REAL.

This was so fucking amazing! It left me slack jawed! I laughed out loud at the "Knifes for sale" part. Man, I have got to go see this again...

Words cannot describe how f*in' kickass that movie truely is. A few of the previews advertised how it had no stunt doubles, no CGI, and no wire-fu. And holy crap, it looks just awesome. I'm gonna go see it again. Anyone want to come with me?

We heard about this movie at the tail-end of last summer and were hard-pressed to find a theater that showed it. When we found it the first time my friends and I tried to see it it was in a rather bad part of a neighboring town and there was some shooting. Well, nix that night. We went back again . . . and we were all surmased and aprised. There are no words to describe how infinitely-high the ass-kicking rated in this movie . . . *smiles widely* OH yes, OH YES this movie FUCKIN' ROCKED!!!

I'll agree that the movie didn't try to hide that it was primarily (like 95%+) a movie where you'll go to pay to see some guy kick a lot of ass. It is, however, worth it to go see . . . even if it means driving out in the friggin' rain to a bad neighborhood at 10PM . . . amazing display of hardcore asskickage!!!

That movie was absolutely classic. The fight scenes were great (loved the knee-to-your-face knockout fight). But the best two scenes were the golf cart race (I actually couldn't breathe), and the final fight were the big guy injects himself with 6 seringes out of nowhere. Classic.

I loved the fact that they could've been on a mission to recover a newspaper and nobody would've known the difference.

I think it would be worth buying the DVD just for the blooper reel, frankly.

Uh, that was one of the stupidest things I've seen in any movie. For one thing, it would have killed him...

Other than that and the random flying taxi (it hits a thing and goes STRAIGHT UP?) the movie was excellent. Oh, well, there was also the problem with the one guy dying and then not being dead.

Come on! Have a sense of humour!
The guy was fighting with those things in his pocket! Fucking genius.