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Ong Bak
Jaa is an interesting action star, intense at moments but never to the dark level Jet Li reaches, genial and innocent looking but without the Chaplin-like comedy of Jackie Chan. He seems very much at ease playing the village bumpkin whose naïve to the corruption of the city, as he has in both Ong Bak and The Protector. Jaa’s charms will not be what catapults him to stardom, it will be his prodigious athletic skill set. In one scene from The Protector he stands in front of an opponent, and instead of fighting him, leaps up in a backflip and kicks out a streetlight easily six or seven feet above his head. The opponent runs away in fear, awed by the kick. It’s abilities like that, combined with a fairly unique to-the-West fighting style in Muay Thai, that set Jaa apart.
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There’s a chase through the streets in Ong Bak that showcases Jaa performing some of the most incredible acrobatic tricks in recent martial arts film memory. He does a flying split over a rack of blades. He coils up his body and jumps through a circle of barbed-wire, no more than two feet wide. He performs a backward sliding split under a passing SUV. Jaa can do all this without wires or CGI, he’s an incredible gifted athlete, and these stunts are more gripping than any CGI-induced leap or flip in a big budget Hollywood movie.
The long take in The Protector features Jaa fighting through multiple floors of a restaurant, performing a variety of complicated moves [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], all captured in one uninterrupted take. It’s an amazing showcase reel that should alone be enough to get Jaa an American film. The film was distributed in the US [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like Ong Bak, with relatively minor returns.
The Protector
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Tony Jaa has had two films theatrically released in the United States. Those are Ong Bak and The Protector. Both feature simplistic revenge plots and extraordinary martial arts action. Ong Bak was heavily marketed as having no CGI or wires, and given the footwork of Jaa (including running ten yards on the shoulders of a line of opponents in Ong Bak) the claim is extraordinary. The Protector has some of the most incredible martial arts sequences of any action film in the last ten years, including one incredible long take where the camera doesn’t cut away as Jaa fights his way through an entire building.