"Ong Bak 2 is infused with an urgency and relentlessness that few contemporary action films have." - Simon Abrams

Well I never thought I'd say this, but a film in which Tony Jaa goes ass-kicking left me a bit bored. Sure therre are some amazing stunts and some good fight scenes but it really ain't good enough.

I appreciated that the bad guys didn't go down after blows that would normally render them unconscious or dead in most action movies, but not in real life.

Very, very flawed. The martial arts choreography is honestly some of the best of the decade, and enthralling. But the production itself seems to have been doomed from the outset, with obvious editing salvage and - at the end, when you start to care even an iota about what's going on - the rug is pulled out beneath you, and the whole thing falls on its ass. This literally has no narrative thread, no ending, and no reason to care about the awesome fights, which is a shame.

tony is real stuntman

Tony Jaa strays from the formula that made Ong-Bak 1 amazing: Kneeing people in the face. In this weapons-based martial arts flick, Tony Jaa's talents are all but wasted, and too many faces go un-kneed.

Visually quite vibrant (and overly saturated), emotionally irrelevant, Ong-Bak 2 is a fighting film that might please die hard genre fans (or fans of Tony Jaa) but leaves the rest cold. The simple plot leaves plenty of room for action. Too bad the fighting sequences are seldom original and ineffectually enhanced by different techniques - ADD cuts, shaky camera and altering the shutter timing.

riding on the elephants backs - amazing scene

Visually rich and colorful yet gritty and violent. The questionable story telling does detract from the films quality but its action sequences (specifically the Zui Quan scene and the final 15 minute fight sequences) are undeniably a thing of genius and beauty and showcases a lot more of Jaa's talents than his previous films.

One of the thinnest stories out there. But jesus, some of the fight scenes is just written in heaven

Deeply flawed, and only the final fight is really interesting. Wait, that's an understatement. The final fight is MINDBLOWINGLY RAD. Just a shame about all that came before.

Boring. Keep Tony Jaa away from swords; he is useless with them. The story is shitty. You shouldn't notice how bad the story is in a film like is if the action is keeping its end of the bargain. Disappointingly, it isn't. The choreography and stunts are above-average, but not exceptional. This is a huge letdown after the first film, which had some of the most energetic action sequences and stunts since Jackie Chan's early films.

Most of the action was what you've come to expect from ass-kicking Tony Jaa. The rest of the film is quite a letdown, however. The story was predictable and weak (was there a need for the girl in the story?). The film doesn't try to bore you, it comes in under 2 hrs, but the fight scenes can only do so much. If you've seen the trailers, you have already witnessed the best parts of this film.

Overall Enjoyment: 10/40, Plot/Themes: 5/20, Cinematography/Direction: 10/20, Acting/Writing: 5/20 A really big disappointment with not nearly enough fight scenes to make up for it and a terrible terrible ending.

It's great to see Jaa in action again, and particularly since he's playing a warrior who's enthusiastic rather than reluctant. The fight scenes are predictably amazing, especially the manriki gusari. But some of the large-scale battles in the beginning are edited incoherently, and the soundtrack veers off into metal and techno near the end. The combat makes this an above-average martial arts movie, yet the way that it skips around in time made it less satisfying to me.

He kicks asses again but this time he uses not only Muay Thai. And the rest is of course just funny. Hell Jaa!

The final fight looks great. The rest is garbage. Tony Jaa is completely clueless as a director.

Average action flick with Mr.Muay Thai himself. Awesome final 20 minutes.the choreographie is great, but the best Tony Jaa movie is revenge of the warrior.

I read a lot on blogosphere about how Prachya Pinkaew is a lousy director and how he isn't using Jaa to the full potential. Guess what-Tony Jaa is even worse director himself. He looks like a delusional Mowgli running though the jungle and slashing throats of the villains with his sword. Story was simple in Ong Bak or Protector, but it was coherent. In this film it jumps from one even to another with no apparent reason. MA choreagraphy is below average compared to sfuff Jaa did before.

Lame ending, but pretty awesome action throughout despite the somewhat hackneyed story. It's like Conan meets Apocalypto but with kung fu and elephants. That's a good thing.

Great fight scenes. That's about all you can take from this besides the comedy and that's enough told hold it up for me.

The shit.

It just ended inexplicably, but ending at all was a blessing with this one.

Tony Jaa needs to stick to the ass-kicking, not directing.

The fight scenes were amazingly choreographed and awesomely violent, but they lacked the jaw-dropping factor that both Ong-Bak and The Protector possess.

The end fight was awesome.