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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I have some questions. Better than Ong-Bak, or just Ong-Bak in English? I really enjoy it when he does his walking up the wall or on top of people's heads and doing all his things while he's being chased (and of course, the spectacular flying elbows) but the commercials kind of look like more of the same. Is anything added in this movie other than that helicopter scene (which looks really cool -- how much of that scene is real?). I dragged my bf to Ong-bak, which he actually really enjoyed and want to take him to this as well but it would be good if I could tell him that it's actually better than Ong-bak.
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I think what Tony Jaa does is in Protector is on a par with what he does in Ong Bak. Maybe slightly better -- though that scene in Ong-bak where he runs through the streets is hard to beat -- because of some more straight fighting.
What improves it is the use of so many other really, really good fighters to the movie. There are some weird bits that they could have done without (like the fighting with elephant bones -- though it kinda worked in context), but overall I think it was better.
The helicopter scene is eh -- really not much more there than what is in the commercial.
Also -- it's not really in English. Mostly Thai, some Chinese, and a bunch of Australians. FWIW.
