Audio Format: DD 5.1, DTS ES 6.1
Video Format: Full Screen
Languages: Thai
Subtitles: English, Chinese, Malay, Thai
Region Code: ALL
Year Made: 2005
For fans of old fashioned black and blue non-wire/non-CGI action this latest Thai follow up to Ong Bak (the action choreographer of that film directs this one) for the "Are they Insane?" sweepstakes is an action junkies wet dream. It doesn't have the amazing Tony Jaa but it makes up for his absence by just revving it up a few notches and having many more people risk their mortal lives.
The main protagonist - Choupong Changprung - isn't quite up to Jaa's action level either - or perhaps they just didn't give him a set piece like Jaa's chase through the streets of Bangkok to show it - but he is still as close to amazing as we will see these days. Where the film really punts your stomach into your throat though are the stunts which just plain and simple should be against the law but aren't we glad they are not!
The story like Ong Bak is about as basic 80's action as you can get and at least 80% of the running time must be taken up by action scenes. A drug lord is captured - during which a village is completely destroyed by a runaway truck - by a young cop.
Afterwards the cop (Choupong Changprung) decides to go along with his sister to visit a small village in the notheast where she and other Thai athletes are giving away food and presents. And wouldn't you know it but the village is taken hostage by the drug lord's main henchman and about 100 of his followers and they demand his release. Oh and they have a nuclear weapon aimed at Bangkok.
