phanthinga Ong-bak 3 take right after Ong-bak 2 left Tony Jaa as Tien after failing to use brute force to revenge now he has to find his inner piece to face off with a out of no where villain.The writing is bad but one again i came here to see Tony kick a lot of ass and he do it with style while rocking a long hair.The action scene is well choreographed by Tony himself although not as memorable as previous Ong-bak movies.Strangle stuff like during the final battle Tony pull out Nicolas Cage power in Next (2007) may upset many people other than that this movie is a great watch don't let the poor IMDb score fool you

bob the moo After watching this film I went back and read my user comment for Ong Bak 2, just to remind myself what I thought of it. What I found was that I had praised the action but said almost every other aspect was weaker than it should have been; it is a user comment I could pretty much copy/paste here and just right the word "very" anytime I see the words "weak" or "poor". In short Ong Bak 3 is a massive disappointment across the board, but amazingly doesn't even really have the action sequences to make the casual viewer forgive it.Let's start with the plot just to get it out of the way – which is coincidentally just how the film treats the plot, an inconvenience to be gotten out of the way with the minimal amount of fuss. As a result we get something so thin that I cannot even be bothered to describe it but suffice to say you will not care about any of it. Of course a lack of plot in a film that we all came to in order to see people kicked into the air is not a real issue, but unfortunately the plot vacuum is delivered slowly and with a constant mystical air of worthiness that it cannot make work and does not need or deserve.The lack of plotting means we do not care about the characters and of course the cast have little to work with in that regard. In fairness, I did watch a dubbed version so it is hard to gauge the performances, but on the other hand at times there was so little dialogue that I forgot it was dubbed (although the American dubbing is 1980's-tastic in its cheesiness). Jaa remains unable to do much as an actor except the physical, he has a presence in that way but nothing else. Comic-relief Wongkamlao doesn't seem to fit in the film but is put in there anyway and is poor. The bad guys are generally weak and indeed the crow-king character is just silly without any real sense of threat or presence (a couple of good moves though).Speaking of moves, this film's biggest disappointment is that the fight sequences are so very dull. The large set-pieces are all about locations and numbers but in terms of Jaa and the other leads, there are almost no moves or sequences that made me gasp or thrilled me. This is a problem since this is the point of this type of film. Instead we get fights that are mostly "OK" but nothing more than this; they don't cover for the poor plot and they certainly don't make up for long "training" sequences that feel like they are there purely to fill time (which of course they are).One could argue that viewers of Ong Bak 3 should know what they are getting, but I don't buy that. The potential to make a great film with someone as physically able as Jaa is still there and yet again it is wasted. The plot is non-existent, the characters likewise and too many of the scenes just feel like they are there to fill time. The action is workmanlike in the main and this is the biggest problems – Jaa has amazed me in the past, here he simply bored me and I yet again look at his film and wonder what his career aspirations are and why his people aren't trying to get him into films much better than this one.

ebiros2 Strait sequel to Ong Bak 2, the story continues from where Tien was captured by the enemies.What I like about Ong Bak 2 and 3 are their stunning visuals. I have never seen this type of cinematography, or action sequence in western or other Asian movies. It seems to be unique to this franchise, and I like it. Cultural cues are also interesting to watch, as I am new to Thai cinema.I have no idea why people are complaining about the lack of action in this movie. There's just as much action in this movie as it was in the previous. As a matter of fact, the entire movie is made of one fight scene after another.I don't catch all the story since I don't speak Thai, but this is a beautiful movie to watch. I enjoyed it purely from visual perspective. Tony Jaa was just as good in this one as he was in Ong Bak 2.I enjoyed watching this movie for its beauty, and action.

poe426 ONG BAK 3 starts off with an extended torture sequence that rivals the one in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF Christ; and, like Jackie Chan before him, Tony Jaa appears to be more than willing to suffer for his (martial) art... While I've come to think of Jaa over the past few years as one part Bruce Lee (Real World hand-to-hand combat techniques) and one part Jackie Chan (death-defying, almost superhuman stuntwork), ONG BAK 3 (like all too many martial arts movies these days) employs totally unnecessary wirework as well. Granted, the supernatural element(s) make the wirework (and cgi) a tad more palatable (in that we're clearly not in The Real World any longer), but it goes so much against the grain of what has come before (in ONG BAK I & II) that it feels more than a little forced. Had the trilogy been rooted as firmly in fantasy as, say, Wang Yu's ONE-ARMED BOXER series, all could've been forgiven- but, given that that first two films were fairly well grounded in "Reality" (i.e.; realistic hand-to-hand combat, if nothing else), the use of wires and cgi are unwelcome additions. (To add to the frustration, the best fight scene in the movie turns out to be "imaginary.")