There's a lot to like for those who enjoy visceral martial arts action; and a lot to dislike for those who value a good story.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 29, 2020

It was epic action, I will admit, but that doesn't mean that the writers should give up on the rest of the film completely.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2012

Let me be blunt - Ong Bak 2 is an incoherent mess...[Yet is] awesome, stupid, incoherent fun.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 2, 2010

A mix of martial arts, which includes Muay Thai, kung fu and Samurai swordplay, that was Jaa's inspiration for making the movie in the first place.

| Mar 25, 2010

The 'sequel' to Jaa's stunning international debut, Ong-Bak, and his third international outing after the entertaining The Protector, but it contains only a fraction of the previous two's joyful invention.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 23, 2010

... the lack of any dramatic center leaves the action, for all its bloody carnage and brutality, emotionally untethered: all spectacle and no character.

| Feb 7, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 1, 2010

We knew Jaa could bust heads; now he's just busting our balls.

| Dec 17, 2009

Ong Bak 2 is really just an excuse for several jaw-dropping set pieces that show off Jaa's killing skills.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2009

Stretched to nearly two full hours and deploying a seemingly endless array of flashbacks sequences, it becomes almost impossible to follow for more than a few minutes at a time and Jaa's utterly charm-free performance doesn't make things any easier.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2009

You can only get so mad at a movie in which a large crowd cheers and the lone subtitle reads "Hooray." With a period.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 12, 2009

Lovely to look at by small degrees, but a mud-spattered mess of a movie overall.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 6, 2009

The first thing to know about Ong Bak 2: The Beginning is that there is no story. The second thing to know is that the first thing isn't as much of a bother as it probably should be.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 6, 2009

It's an incoherent, would-be martial-arts epic with only a handful of action sequences in its favor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2009

The action bits make you feel like you've had pure adrenaline pumped into you, but the attention to artistic detail... is like something you'd expect from a Hollywood epic...

| Oct 29, 2009

Moaning about the overlong, sloppily told story seems petty nitpicking when all I really want to see is Tony Jaa doing what he does best - beating the tar out of people, and we get that in spades in Ong Bak 2.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2009

Jaa, who co-directs, has only one thing in mind: a series of increasingly complex fight scenes in his characteristically wide-ranging style. If movie theaters allowed you to fast-forward past the filler, your life just might be complete.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 23, 2009

I could have enjoyed the film if it didn't present itself as some kind of self-important epic, which only makes the ridiculous dialogue and hackneyed plot stand out.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2009

Bears virtually no connection to the original.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 23, 2009

Taking co-directorial reins with Panna Rittikrai, Jaa has erected a portentous platform for his high-flying athleticism, bearing none of the freewheeling spirit or humor that made his feature debut a guiltless pleasure.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2009