These guys are awesome, they give good show. Very reminiscent of the Doors and Zepplin (to me) not that I ever saw the Doors or Led Zepplin in concert….operatic, lyrical and bad ass. Tons of energy and thank flippin’ gawl it’s not another mopey hipster drone fest.

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If you like action movies or martial arts – this movie and Ong Bak are for you. I have consumed a LOT of kung fu movies, old samuarai movies (kurosawa), tons of anime, and Tony Jaa just leaves me speechless. His physical abilities both in terms of acrobatics and ridiculous fight scenes are astounding. His movies have a naive, sweet element to them (aside from all the bone-breaking) that is a cultural treat as well.

I cannot recommend this enough, discovering Tony Jaa was one of my top 5 things about 2005.

In this particular film, which also features beautiful scenery and cool elephants, includes a scene where Tony’s character fights a guy doing Capoeria. It doesn’t really make sense for the story but it put in because the fighting style looks cool, I’ve never seen a Capoeria fight in a movie before.

Disclaimer: It’s real violent, there’s no CGI.

P.s. I occasionally laud Tony with praises on my blog.