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Information
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 110 min.
- Director
- Prachya Pinkaew
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 13,874
- Checks
- 955
- Favs
- 78
- Dislikes
- 11
- Favs/checks
- 8.2% (1:12)
- Favs/dislikes
- 7:1
Top comments
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MarkE89
Imagine Rain Man in Tekken. Imagine him as Xiaoyu, to be exact. And then pity the ones trying to pull off this plot. Of course, it won't make sense or have any worthwhile commentary on something other than how fucking cool this kid is.
The movie should be approached as cinematic ballet - as a Busby Berkeley-piece almost, save for the lack of kaleidoscopic visuals. Yet again, Pinkaew proves to be eons ahead of any other action director and it's an absolute thrill to watch every sequence unfold its intricate choreography in a visually coherent manner. Increasingly, he seems to have become the new Woo of this medium. If the beautiful lack of CGI, and emphases on physicality and manipulation of space, starts blending with actual "stories", he may well take over the spot as reigning Action Man soon.
Regardless, Hollywood (from Nolan to McG) should hire Pinkaew as Second Unit Director on all fight scenes if they can motivate him without the use of an elephant. 9 years 6 months ago -
Houdini
Definitely didn't see this through for the story but those stunts where amazing especially towards the end. The scenes where the baddies fall off the building were wonderfully shot, I wondered how even with wire work where able to pull off those falls. In the end credits they show that one guy even had to go to the hospital because of those scenes. Worth watching! 12 years 3 months ago -
insomniaticnimrod
Awesome action movie with some good laughs and some emotions thrown in. 13 years 2 months ago