This movie kicks ass. ***excuse the quality of the pics, the dvd was lame and the divx filtering sucked ass. so did vlc***

Tom Yum Goong is the second big budget movie from Prachya Pinkaew and Tony Jaa, 2 years after Ong Bak. If you still haven't watched Ong Bak do so, the action is unlike anything you've seen in any martial arts film. Tony Jaa is a crazy ass stuntman/actor whose being hailed as the next big thing after Jet Li. (Bruce Lee > J.Chan > Jet Li > Tony Jaa) He's really that good.

Tom Yum Goong is about Kham who loses his elephant to poachers and goes to Sydney to retreive it and kick mafia ass all the way. Like Ong Bak the story is weak and the acting really bad, surprisingly the Aussie cops were worse than the Thai actors who had trouble speaking in English btw.

Its all about the action. And boy this movie delivers!! The fight scenes are varied with different opponents from stunt bike hooligans to 7-foot tall giants to a Brazillian copeira fighter.

Some pics for ya's:


Kham as a boy with his dad's elephant.


Kham and his elephant that later gets kidnapped.


Yes, that guy from Ong Bak is in this movie too. He helps Kham.


The bad guys.


Mafia bosses enjoying muddy sex.


Kicking a goon in the head!

The locations also change alot, this movie also has pacing problems and the fight scenes don't always make sense, but once you're watching the fight I doubt you'd mind at all. Especially the restaurant and warehouse scenes where Jaa backflips back over a running bike and pulls the biker off with his helmet. More pics:


A boat slams into a chopper. Don't ask why.


Ouch!


The guy in white kicks Jaa's ass during that fight, but he eats some glass after a few lucky shots.


Tony Jaa realises piracy will always exist.


Thats in the warehouse when Kham fights the hooligans on bikes and blades.


The hooligans gang up and get their asses handed to 'em.

The most awesome fight scene involving copeira takes place in a burning Buddhist temple. Tres awesome. Pics:













And the following pic is from the funniest (read: disturbing) moment in the film. Jaa fights a whole bunch of goons and either snaps their ankles, elbows, backs or cocyx. :P Its bone crunchingly gruesome. The sound is good too, CRAAACK!!


What a mess.

Jaa is a true acrobat, he can kick your ass even if you're 9 feet high up in a friggin chopper!! I'm not kidding, he totally did it!! :o He also did it to a lamp post in Sydney. Incredible stuff that must be seen, keeping in mind there are no wires in the film.







Go watch it when it gets released. I don't know when it'll be released in Oz but it should be out by Dec '06. ;)

Wow, nice, makes me want to go and watch the imported version :)

Just do it. Waiting for the theatre release is torture! :P I can send you a free dvd, I'm serious, I want you to see this. ;)

I have heard from three people who have seen it that it is nowhere near what was expected. I think it would really be hard to live up to the hype that was created. Ong Bak was incredible, as always it is quite hard for a sequel to surpass the original. This did not stop the international media though.

They told me the storyline is really what killed the movie. I wasn't too impressed with the storyline from the first one, and the action is what got the international media attention. I only wonder if the action could possibly be better than that of Ong Bak, if so will that cover the bad storyline enough?

The story is on par with Ong Bak, it sucks and as mentioned earlier the movie has pacing issues, its all over the place. Don't go see it expecting it to completely surpass anything you've seen before ever. Its got great stunts and brutal/stylish fighting like in any Lee flick but with Jaa's extra skill.

Fuck the media hype. It was sad when I bought the USA version of Ong Bak and found loser rappers (Wu tang) promoting it. Ong Bak doesn't need wu tang, it doesn't need a rap ost, it doesn't need the US to be awesome. Jaa is awesome enough!

The action is not like in Ong Bak, Jaa is more brutal and deadly in this film. Forget Ong Bak when viewing TYG.

As long as you're dishing out free DVDs, can I have one too? ;)

all i know is, the game based on this movie a fucking terrible.

Ugh, pretty much every line in english sounded broken. Especially that woman newsreporter, it's like they did that in one take after just reading the script without trying to work out how to pronounce things. The subtitles didn't work for half the film that DZ gave me but luckily there was less than 10minutes of talking in total, with half in semi-english (done by actors)

Tony Jaa's "Where's my elephant?!" line made me laugh as its similar to the Simpsons episode when Bart chooses an elephant over $10,000 from the radio station.

The storyline's more broken than the english, fashion sense doesn't seem to exist and comparing it to Ong Bak, Ong Bak feels like a slicker presentation. However, the fighting scenes in this movie are alot better I think, especially when you witness Tony in the underground carpark scene. Or the continuous fighting at a hotel lobby (with just one camera constantly chasing behind him) as he's running up some 5 flights of spiral stairs (ones that go around the perimeter of the hotel) in 1 take whilst beating the crap out of enemies. Amazing

:lol:

I think you have a bitch to play with DZ.

On the DVD's, I heard that Australia got the best version of Ong Bak. As it had complete version of the film. With everything that was cut.