Atrocious acting aside, watching RZAsharing an on screen fight with Tony Jaa had me rolling my eyes. His casting as the villain is cashing inon that particular geek sheik. Man goes and retrieves it, end of story!RZA, together with his film The Man with the Iron Fist andself-proclaimed love of martial arts films, is forging a reputation tobeing a kung fu film staple. Why does it have to be so complicated? Manloses elephant. Thestunning Rhatha Phongam from Only God Forgives also makes a decentfemme fatale, but the overabundance of supporting characters and apolitical assassination plot weighs everything down as the film takeson more than it can handle. Clumsy cop comic sidekick Petchtai Wongkamlaogets some nice lines in but as seen in the first Ong Bak his strengthsseem to lie in physical comedy, which he does not get to do here. Sadly, there is very little of it.Jeeja Yanin from Chocolate is unfortunately sidelined, she occasionallyshows up to help Tony Jaa and vice versa, but otherwise there is littleinteraction between them. Everytime Ja whips out the elephant boxing style, a style that he and fightchoreographer Panna invented for the previous film, are some of thefilm's most exciting moments. And the whole time, I was waiting for Jaa to show off. Jaa's choreography is restrained, for most of the groupfights he just seems to be dispatching people aside as quickly aspossible. He is not as fast or hard-hitting as heonce was. Apparently there were fiveeditors on the project, what happened?Tony Jaa is at not in his peak physical form, and the film seems to behiding it from the audience.
Many times the viewer enters theaction after the first hit has been made. The action is haphazardly cut with an embarrassingly hugeamount of spatial jumps and tight close-ups that do not match, as ifthere was not enough usable footage. As flimsyas that plot sounds, it is the least of its problems.By incorporating special effects and stereoscopic 3D into the film'saction scenes, Pinkaew forgets its major visual effect, namely Tony Jaahimself. Thesequel to 2005's Tom Yum Goong has Kham's elephant Khon is kidnappedonce again by an evil organization that plans to blackmail Kham intoassassinating the President of Katana to kick start a coup. Tom Yum Goong 2 marks Tony Jaa's return since his announced retirementafter the failed Ong Bak 3 and living life as a Buddhist monk.
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