6.9? How?

Because this movie deliver what it should deliver, KICK ASS FIGHT SCENES.

I just watched it and i was like "WOW" , of course its over the top, no guy could beat so much people at the same time, but its fun to watch, its like a bare hand version of Commando where Arny gunned down an army by himself...

It will be one of my favorite action movie ever, even if the story is dull and i was in laught everytime he said "wheres my elephant" but the action sequence are just amazing. And there is tone of them.

I just saw City of Violence yesterday. Way better plot even if not the greatest ever, and similar style of action, 2 main hero kicking the ass of 100 guys at the same time. Was fun, but there was not enought fight sequences to make me hook all movie long. Exept at the beginning before the elephants are stolen, Protector is full of action.

As an martial arts film it is worth a 7.

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The last three posts bring some really good points.
I loved this movie. But not because of plot or acting.
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This movie is a rare gem. To the casual observer, a raw diamond just looks like a piece of quartz, and some people laugh at the simplicity of Opera plots. They are missing the point. Opera is about the music, not the acting. The same is true of martial arts films.

The Athleticism of Tony Jaa's martial arts choreography is astounding. I find it difficult to believe that there were a lot of digital and mechanical special effects to simulate the aerial ballet (for lack of a better term) which Tony Jaa demonstrates. Surely there were a few editing tricks to enhance the dazzle, but this is real, hard core, down to earth, muscle-and-discipline, stunt work of the first order. The multi-level battle scene in the restaurant, on the other hand is not about editing, but the stupefyingly creative absence of it. Watching that sequence is like watching Hitchcock's "Rope", or a micro-budget version of Liz Taylor's triumphant arrival in Rome as "Cleopatra" These are extraordinary cinematic novelties, unlikely to be matched ever again.

Like i said: fluorescent tubes? Nothing awesome about them.

Anyway, a film is rated as a whole. Sure, action movies have different criteria than dramas, but you can still vote for editing, props, acting etc. And here the movie fails big time.

Why do you watch Jackie Chan movies? Sure he's pretty charismatic and a decent actor, but i wanna see him in his awesome fight scenes with props and humour.

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IMO, the people saying "it's just a martial arts film, it doesn't need to be well made as long as the fight scenes are good" are holding the genre back. Tom Yum Goong did have some awesome fight scenes and stunts from Tony Jaa in it, but the set up for some the scenes are just absurd! Things like him getting stabbed before going into "Rage Mode" and then just taking out the endless waves of guys, with them never changing tactics (not to mention how he would be dying from that wound no matter how much adrenaline he had going, the movie established him as tough, but never superhuman, there was no reason within the story he shouldn't have bled to death) brought it down a bit.

There were some awesome moves in that final scene, but it really does go on for too long and become a demo-reel of what he can do, there's no movement or change in level or progress in that scene. It's almost like a video game with the player in a challenge room constantly receiving more enemies.

The warehouse scene with the gangs coming from nowhere, the bad English dialouge/acting, the poor editing and overall shoddy directing, it's overall not that well made of a movie.

There are a lot of scenes in this that happen at random, with little to no lead up or motivation. It doesn't have to be Oscar worthy, but it shouldn't feel random and disjointed either.

If you look at the first Ong Bak, it's a much more well made movie with a simple, non-complex story that drives all of the action. Every scene and every situation makes sense in the narrative, again, it's not Shakespeare and wouldn't win any awards, but it was much more coherent and enjoyable than Tom Yum Goong because scenes felt like they were occurring naturally within the movie.

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