Just a showcase for Jaa's athletic abilities.

| Original Score: C | Aug 24, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Jaa's moves are impressive, but the choreography ranges from bland to ridiculous (as when one dirty fighter resorts to using major appliances as weapons).

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2005

What Jaa does is often mesmerizing.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 17, 2005

The artifice-free antidote to such F/X enervation -- a jaw-dropper of a star-making display from lithe fighter-artist Tony Jaa, framed by a plot as bare-bones as a backroom boxing ring.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 16, 2005

I think you have to hang a plot and some suspense around this. It was just so dopey and so endless and so repetitive. The guy's got talent, but thumbs down for this movie.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2005

A viscerally entertaining slice of Thai filmmaking that will leave you grinning ear to ear.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 13, 2005

This nearly six-minute sequence is one of the most joyously rapturous of the new year, the actor sliding under vehicles, walking pixie-like across a minefield of heads and leaping over knives, fences and even cars with unmitigated glee.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 12, 2005

An effective martial arts film destined to leave mouths agape.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2005

A knockout of a martial arts movie -- and an elbow to the head. And two knees to the back and a roundhouse kick to the ear for good measure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2005

You can rightly say that Jaa has yet to establish much of a character, but give him a chance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2005

While Tony Jaa is bad in a good way, Ong Bak is bad in a bad way.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 11, 2005

I wouldn't bet against a kickboxer who sets himself on fire and then crushes an opponent between his flaming fibulas.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2005

The time to catch Tony Jaa is now.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2005

Jaa's screen time is largely about athletics, not building a character.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005

Nearly every impressive stunt is repeated in slow motion from a different camera angle, and we get to see the most eye-popping ones three times. Thus a tightly edited, 90-minute action flick becomes a bloated, 105-minute exercise.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005

It's not often that you witness the creation of a star, so grab the chance now.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2005

Vile, humorless, distasteful, sickening.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 11, 2005

I sat through the movie impressed at how real the action sequences seemed. Then I went to the Web site, and discovered that they were real.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2005

After a while, a punch is a punch is a punch.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2005