Original Title:- Tom Yum Goong

Warrior King (AKA: The protector (in the usa)

Country - Thailand

Year of Production - 2005

Run Time - 108 minutes

Genre - Action

Rating - 18

Director - Prachya Pinkaew

Written by - Napalee/Piyaros Thongdee

Starring:-

Tony Jaa - Kham
Petchtai Wongkamlao - Mark
Bongkoj Khongmalai - Pla
Xing Jing - Madame Rose
Nathan Jones - T.K.

Synopsis

WARRIOR KING tells the story of a young man named Kham (Tony Jaa) whose life is turned upside down when an international mafia syndicate, based in Australia, captures his two beloved elephants and smuggles them thousands of miles away to Sydney. The two elephants are far more than mere animals to Kham and his father. They are part of the family and were being prepared to be presented as a token of devotion to his Majesty the King of Thailand. The only way Kham can possibly save the animals is by venturing into a foreign land for the first time in his life.

Review

Tony Ja is now a well known around the globe as a martial arts phenomena. This film is from the team that also brought us Ong Bak.

Kham (Ja) is brought up with elephants as a child and grown to love and respect these mammals. Whilst at a fair of some nature his father is killed by a trader wanting to buy his elephant the elephant goes on the rampage, Kham tries in vain to save the elephant but its snatched buy these poachers.

You see Kham praying then next you see him gate crashing a party and kicking the shit out of everyone before escaping in a Jame’s bond style boat chase. After the action you move to Australia the destination of the elephant. Kham follows in anticipation of finding his elephant but gets kidnapped by the taxi driver attheairport the local police chase and shot dead the driver and Kham is arrested but escapes. He manages to track down the person involved in the kidnapping and que major fight sequences with some of the best fighting action I’ve seen in many years!!

One of the police chiefs is bent but you knew this by now but you find out officially at this point as he kills 2 police constables. Kham follows Jimmy, the main man involved in the elephant napping, to a club where he fights about 50 geezers and finds out its a restaurant/brothel where they eat exotic meats, his elephant is found alive, he also rescues a copper that was held there.

With all this happening the bent detective goes after Kham with some super duper fighters. Kham catches up with the bent detective and his Mrs, then follows some more fight scene and the movie comes to a climax with a happy ending.

Another superb DVD release from HKLegends!

4½ out of 5
Review by Haggles (UK)

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