Review of Ong Bak 3

Ong Bak 3 (2010)
3/10
The worst of the Ong Bak movies
30 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is the worse of the 3 Ong Bak movies. Ong Bak 1 was fresh and exciting. Ong Bak 2 gave us a new direction and an intriguing story line. Ong Bak 3 gave us a pretentious overly stylized mess. Watching Ong Bak 3 the movie IMO got progressively worse. It shows him being tortured and broken yet miraculously healed through prayer and dance. It felt like I was watching an Indian/Bollywood movie where the dance scenes were the "love" scenes. The best part of the movie was the action scene of the "Crow guy" brilliantly choreograph where he was untouchable. This looked like it would lead to a battle royal in the grand finale..... SPOILER!!!! .... Instead our hero uses his dance moves and soundly trashed the bad guy with out even getting a scratch. What utter (censored)!! Most anti climatic and disappointing ending. I watch this movie while on a flight, I actually swore out loud at the ending and my seat mate agreed with me. I have to admit the movie wasn't all bad (crow boy fight in the middle was brilliant) but the ending destroyed the movie. I think Tony Ja have watched too many art HK/Korean martial arts movies and this is his very bad imitation of them.
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