Steineded How sad is this?

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

dierub As other reviewer explained, this has to be reviewed not as a stand alone movie, yes as a third one into a trilogy. Not better way to end the ONG BAK trilogy, Tai survived a terrible torture, he died and came to life just for one reason, complete the circle. He trained his body to recover it and above all, his mind and way of fighting. I agree that this has less action sequences as previous films, but the fighting is beautiful and as I said, the reason is to complete the circle. He must learn the dancing style and finally understand that he is the weapon, he doesn't need weapons. The movie is well done and the action is solid. I understand the deception of many reviewers, but this movie was the only way to end the trilogy. Excellent movie.

Spike Having sat through the confusing jumble that was Ong Bak 2, I figured I should see the third one to complete the story. Big mistake.Ong Bak 3 picks up where the second film left off, not only in the story but in the confusing, jumbled mess of rubbish that spends most of its time posturing. Seriously, how many slow close-ups and intense stares can an audience put up with from a lead who says so little and has no expressions other than angry, sad and happy?This third installment is, in short, awful. The story is almost non-existent and horribly contrived: the crow guy, the sudden haunting of the evil king, Tien effectively turning into a Buddhist monk in short order, blah blah blah.There's also the issue of boredom. You know how action movies have those slow, supposedly emotional breaks in them so you can recover from the intense action? Well, this one consists of about 90% breaks and 10% action... which really isn't that intense even when it does happen. The advantage of DVD is that you can fast-forward through the painfully long pauses and all that intense staring and get to the bits where something - anything! - happens.All in all, OB3 is the final descent of the trilogy. After a glorious start, it turned to poop in the second installment and finally fell headlong into tedium and pointlessness.My advice? Watch the opening fight scene, then fast-forward to the ending fight scene. Catch the crow fight if you like. Everything else is redundant.

gilvanl Well, sorry for my bad English (i would never write into a language i can not cope with, but this case is special). After i have seen too many negative reviews, including one coming from a jerk from my own country, i decided to push back the "kali yuga wave" (yes, it's a joke the big-headed occidental people will not understand). Let's get strait to the point, Ong Bak 3 have wonderful moments that can value the movie without all the fighting scenes. The great negative approach some people have about this movie, can only show the great prejudices and great grade of ignorance from such people. The story is well carried of, the images and photography are superb, the personages are fair and simple, and the overall is a great story. If someone likes stupid things like cars running fast, buildings blowing out in great explosions, mass murder, etc, etc; please go tho a sanatorium instead of the movie exhibition halls.

Hellmant 'ONG BAK 3': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five) Thai martial arts superstar Tony Jaa (who's been compared to the likes of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li) stars in this sequel to the international blockbuster 'ONG BAK 2', which actually isn't a traditional sequel to the original 'ONG BAK', seeing as that movie was set in modern day Thailand and the two sequels are set in the year 1431. This third chapter takes off right where the second part left off though and continues the adventures of Tien (Jaa). The film is directed, written and produced by Jaa and Panna Rittikrai (the team also co-directed the second film). While it doesn't live up to it's two predecessors or Jaa's other works it's still a more than decent martial arts adventure.The film begins with a montage of the closing scenes from the second film, which ended on a cliffhanger. Tien has been captured by the evil Lord Rajasena (Sarunyu Wongkrajang) and is nearly beaten to death by his men. Just before his execution though Tien is pardoned by the king and is taken by the messenger back to his people, the villagers of Kana Khone. There he is revived, from near death, back to life and goes through a special Buddhist healing process of both his mind and body. He must then prepare to do battle with his enemies once again and a new foe with powers of deadly magic (Dan Chupong).The story doesn't really matter as it's mostly incoherent and irrelevant. It's really just used as an excuse to string a bunch of elaborate action scenes and other spectacular visuals together. Going in to this movie I had low expectations, having had seen the mostly negative reviews it got from critics and fans alike but that was mainly due to disappointment. It's true that it doesn't live up to the other two chapters or 'THE PROTECTOR' (my favorite Tony Jaa film) but it's still better than a lot of other comparable martial arts films. Tony Jaa is an amazing martial artist and screen presence and in that way he definitely doesn't disappoint here. The fight choreography is stunning, the action scenes are spectacular (and surprisingly brutally violent) and the visuals are breathtaking. The story and character development is almost nonexistent but those things aren't really that important in a movie like this anyway. This movie is just a great action thrill ride, almost like an over long martial arts music video. I really liked the score music of the film as well as the directing (which stylistically speaking is very cool). I might have enjoyed the film quite a bit more than others because of my low expectations but I definitely had a pretty good time watching it.Watch our review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffxjYiwLUko