I've seen the major action-scenes of this movie at least four times by now.. The plot (which can be summarized as follows: 1. Tribal-Jaa learns to fight, 2. WHERE'S HIS ****** ELEPHANTS?!, 3. Gone) is just lame - Plenty of scenes could (and should) be cut.. The action is just too awesome (Jaa's fighting style = FUCK OFF MINION!!!) and the direction slick enough for me to not give a Thai's ass! Superior to the ultra-boring Ong-Bak which only have a few fun scenes and an even more nonsensical plot

"The Protector isn't a sequel to Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior but it is a thinly disguised retread." - Nick Schager

A lot of fun action and fighting, etc, etc, but the story is pretty stupid.

The story is really a tool to place Tony Ja in key position to beat the shit out of swarms of bad guys. But it's still amazing to watch him do his stuff. There are some characters that are just plain stupid, but it's somewhat forgivable.

Not as good as Ong-Bak but any Tony Jaa is good Tony Jaa.

I dunno what the hell this movie was about but some dude broke a bunch of other dudes bones and there were elephants.

The original version (Tom Yum Goong) is vastly superior to the Weinsteins butchered version known as "The Protector". Sure the plot is still pretty silly, but at least in the original version you can make sense of it. The Weinstein cut just lops out anything that isn't action. The action, however, is some of the best fighting seen onscreen in years.

The fight scenes in this movie could literally be strung together by ANYTHING. There's no plot. Just dude running up to random people screaming WHERE'S MY ELEPHANT? I showed one of those scenes to somebody out of context, it's comedy gold. Obviously the fight scenes are marvelous, but that doesn't make a movie. Or, it does, but it shouldn't.

the best martial arts movie to date in my opinion.

Where's my elephant?

"They stole my elephant! I'm going to go and beat people up in Australia!". Some great fights, but the finale is a real let down. It lacks the impact of Ong-Bak because it doesn't really give us anything new, but its still a good spectacle.

Worth watching just for the action scenes. It's a pretty simplistic story, and there's actually very little dialogue, but there really is some outstanding action here, including one fight scene that's a several-minutes-long continuous shot

More limbs were broken in this film than in any other I've seen. I wonder how many sticks of celery were murdered for the sound effects alone.

This film is worth watching if u are a martial arts fan. The fight scenes are amazing and well shot. There is a couple or comical scenes as well but in general this film has been made 2 show of Tony Jaa impressive skills. The plot is weak and laughable with is a shame

With the elephant

Overall Enjoyment: 25/40, Plot/Themes: 0/20, Cinematography/Direction: 15/20, Acting/Writing: 5/20 The kung fu scenes were incredible, but the rest of the movie was beyond horrible. The plot and other characters were poorly developed and featured far too often for my taste. Another user said it best with "Not as good as Ong Bak, but any Tony Jaa is good Tony Jaa". Except when he breaks that rule later with Ong Bak 2 and 3.

While flashing from one action scene to another without much of a plot can be confusing, the martial arts are amazing while the plol is Dumbo: First Blood Part 2, so I'm ok with the movie having all thrills, no fills.

Amazing choreography and fight scenes from Tony Jaa help push this film to above average. If you're looking for an engaging story, watch something else. Don't mess with the elephants.

Probably one of the best action/fighting movies i've eve seen

I'm aasuming this also known as Warrior King. If not, ignore this. The one I'm thinking of involves Tony Jaa kicking ass (yay!), screaming "WHERE IS MY ELEPHANT?!?" like Bruce Lee crossed with a Dr Suess character, the running off and finding more people to hit/kick/hurt. If so, then action good, everything else eh. The continuous shot of Jaa moving his way up a building punching out fools left and right is awesome, worth the rest of the film just for that. But it's probably on You-tube

Its no Ong-bak and some of the cinematography is reminiscent of that featured in R Kelly videos. However, its still a pretty good film, most of the time.

There are a couple of jaw-dropping awesome scenes (a five minute tracking shot as Kham fights his way up through a restaurant and the seeming endlesss climax battle), but otherwise is let down by the awful 'news coverage' device to move the plot along, and the comically bad foley. The action is rendered from fantastic to cartoon-like by the ham-fisted sound effects. If anything I'm just glad I've seen this before Ong-Bak.

If you get between Tony Jaa and his elephants he will FUCK YOU UP.

Ridiculousness of the plot elements are only paralleled by the impact of long action scenes. Safe to skip anything but the fights.

Awful plot but great looking action.

Not as cool as Ong-bak, but the one-shot four-minute fight is a work of sublime art.

This score is an average between the fighting and the story. The fighting is good, but woe to the person watching for a good story!

Tony Jaa not enough to counter the fact that a man throws an elephant halfway across the room.

The plot is merely insane little bits that attempt to add up to a story, but make almost no sense and contain no narrative flow from one scene to the next. But the action is spectacular, much more fun than Ong Bak. The unbroken take of Jaa fighting his way up the tower is astonishing and the climax battle is hilariously over-the-top, with its bone-crunching sound effects. It'd be nice if there was a better script, and Jaa desperately needs to develop some charisma, but there's hope for him yet

Some amazing fight scenes don't make up for the obvious script issues, but it's still a decent watch.

Great martial art movie. I guess Thailand is unbeatable when it comes to martial art movies. HORRIBLE story. High score for the action only!

Good action , low-rated story

Two scenes make the narrative nonsense and self-seriousness and ludicrously choreographed non-fight action scenes worthwhile: one breathtaking fight scene that follows Jaa up a flight of stairs for four minutes without breaking shot and another in which Jaa breaks the limbs of 50 GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKERS.