Petchtai Wongkamlao Movies
Muay Thai martial arts master Tony Jaa returns to deliver a bone-breaking barrage of knees and elbows in this action opus that finds the star not only delivering blows in front of the camera, but calling the shots behind it as well. Despite the title's indication of this film as a sequel to 2003's Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, this movie has no narrative connection to the events of the earlier work, despite the fact that both films star Jaa. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tony Jaa, Sorapong Chatree, (more)
Thai stuntman Tony Jaa makes his starring debut in this martial arts action film directed by Prachya Pinkaew. Ja plays Ting, a young man living in a village in rural Thailand. Discovered as an infant on the steps of the town's temple and raised by monks who taught him the Thai martial art of muay thai, Ting is sent to Bangkok when the head of the town's statue of the Buddha, to which they pray to bring the annual rains to their drought-stricken region, is stolen. The country boy is plunged into the big city's seething criminal underworld, and forced to use his fighting skills to dispatch a parade of thugs in an underground fight club on his way to finding the criminal mastermind who stole the Buddha head so he can return it before drought and starvation bring his hometown to ruin. ~ Tom Vick, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, (more)
- 2004
Thai comedian Petchthai Wongkamlao and fight choreographer Panna Rittikrai, the duo behind the hit action comedy The Bodyguard, re-team for this sequel that finds the stone faced protector forced to look care for a rich client's young son after the boy's father is killed during a brutal skirmish between cater waiters and bodyguards. In the wake of a botched kidnapping attempt, the child retreats to a cramped shanty in the town dump. There, he lives with a group of transsexual paramedics and foul-mouthed prostitutes and befriends a poor your schoolgirl. Upon visiting the young girl's severely under-funded school, the boy vows to use the fortune left to him by his father for a noble cause. But the danger isn't over yet, because as the gangsters who killed his father fast begin to close in on the unsuspecting boy, the Bodyguard must race to find him before the bad guys do. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2007
A henpecked cop working for the secret service poses as an ambitious singer in order to infiltrate a record company that cushions their bank account by trafficking black market warheads in this prequel to the 2004 action comedy starring Petchtai Wongkamlao. As the undercover cop unexpectedly becomes a singing sensation due to his catchy tunes trashing his ugly wife. Later, as video jock-turned-government spook Paula (Jacquelin Apitananon) begins gathering evidence against the dastardly arms dealers, she and the crooning policeman join forces to crack the case and bust the bad guys. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
On the eve of presenting a pair of prized elephants to the King of Thailand, a young martial arts expert and his father are shocked to discover that the beloved creatures were stolen by an international mafia syndicate, and now the determined fighter must travel to Australia to get his animals back in this adventure from the team behind the international action hit Ong Bak. To Kham (Tony Jaa) and his father, the elephants that they were about to present to the King of Thailand were not simply pets, but members of the family as well. When Kham learns that the criminals who stole his elephants have taken them back to their home base in Australia, the fearsome fighter vows to brave the strange new land and bring his animals back safely no matter what the cost. Upon arriving in Australia, Kham enlists the aid of Thai Police Sergeant Mark (Petchthai Wongkamlao) and pretty slave Pla (Bongkuch Kongmaili) in taking on down notorious crime boss Madame Rose (Jing Xing) and locating the animals he loves before it's too late. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, (more)
