Um dos filmes mais autêntico do gênero e o Tony Jaa é um artista marcial fenomenal sem dúvidas!

Ong-Bak is a 2003 Thai martial arts film directed by Prachya Pinkaew and featuring action choreography by Panna Rittikrai. It was written by Suphachai Sittiaumponpan. It stars Tony Jaa in the lead role, alongside Petchtai Wongkamlao and Pumwaree Yodkamol. It is also called Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior in North America, Thai Fist in Hong Konog, Enter the New Dragon in India and Ong-Bak: The Hunt of the Statue of Buddha in Vietnam. Ong-Bak proved to be Tony Jaa's breakout film with the actor hailed internationally as the next major martial arts star. After Ong-Bak became a hit in Thailand, sales rights for outside Asia were purchased by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp, which in turn re-edited the film. Most of the subplot involving Muay Lek's sister, Ngek, was removed and the final showdown between Ting and Saming was shortened. Vision wrote: "Ong-Bak showcases an amazing improvement in Thai action choreography. Tony Jaa at his finest. The story was progressively perfect, the martial arts were fantastic and convincing, the acting was comical and impressive, especially from Tony Jaa and Petchtai Wongkamlao and the production was a fine tune of the Bangkok crime world. Four fries!"

Na minha opinião Ong-Bak é um dos melhores filmes do gênero destaque para o Tony Jaa ele é um artista marcial fenomenal!

It’s mostly the nostalgia speaking, but I loved this movie as a kid and still do now. It’s fun to watch and the action is nice. Tony jaa does a great job with his skills.

Much of the action did not make sense. The main actor's skills are impressive, but the performances were unrealistic.

Na minha opinião Ong-Bak é um dos melhores filmes do gênero destaque para o Tony Jaa ele é um artista marcial fenomenal!

Engaging and entertaining till end 3.5/5

Después de haber trabajado como doble en la secuela de Mortal Kombat, Ong-Bak fue la película que le dio su primer papel protagónico y fue una gran oportunidad para demostrar sus increíbles habilidades. Es una clásica historia de artes marciales que envuelve a nuestro protagonista en un mundo criminal que debe combatir para recuperar un objeto valioso. El guion no es del todo excelente, pero es una historia sencilla y Tony Jaa logra apoderarse de la película con sus estupendas escenas de pelea. Demuestra una gran agilidad y las escenas de combate llegan a ser muy impactantes. Ong-Bak es una estupenda película de acción que logra mantener la atención del espectador en pantalla y gracias a esta película, Tony Jaa ha demostrado ser un artista marcial bastante talentoso para convertirse en otra futura estrella de acción. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 8/10.

Ong Bak is a one-man show and Tony Jaa is that show, bringing the art of Muay Thai to the mainstream in all its bone-crunching glory. While it certainly struggles with giving many of its characters coherent motivations or personalities outside of stock archetypes, Jaa's violent strikes and sheer versatility keep it from getting boring. The first knee to the face is enough to make anyone wince. Jaa manages to combine the brutality of Bruce Lee, with the sheer speed of Jet Li and the wild athleticism and sheer determination of Jackie Chan into set pieces that manage to showcase the man's skills as a fighter and out-and-out action star. It contains all the classic hallmarks of Hong Kong cinema but lacks the writing, acting and glossy filmmaking to fully back it up. It's not terribly original but as entertainment goes, Ong Bak delivers with an effortless proficiency for brutal violence and inventive action scenes that remain endlessly engaging for fans of martial arts cinema.

If you like martial arts movies, you'll love this!

great action, but very thin storyline, but that is ok, tony Jaa action allways makes up for that

i also train muay boran that tony jaa use and i can say that tony jaa is my idol before this review but i keep this review pro! so tony jaa actually learned muay boran for this movie and it shows (RIP STUNT GUYS). ALSO STORY IS REALITY IN SOME CITYS!!!

This movie is worth watching because it marks the birth a modern martial arts legend, Tony Jaa. This low budget story of a young villager in Thailand looking to recover his Village's stolen Buddha statute is a good vehicle to showcase Jaa's amazing fighting and stunt skills. This movie reminds me a lot of 2010's Merantu, starring Iko Uwais in his debut film. The Uwais/Garett Evan's film is better. This is still fun. It is subtitled.

So awesome. One of the top action movies

Great action film with some exceptional martial arts fight scenes

Hyperbolic, adrenaline fuelled and very violent, Ong Bak is the greatest action film ever made and Tony Jaa is an action star like no other. Bruce Lee, Jet Li and Jackie "Cayman Islands" Chan have nothing on this guy. Chan in his finest hour looks like an old hippo stuck in mud by comparison. The film is exactly what is says on the box; plot, characters and intelligent scripting simply do not exist in this film and thank the big G for that because if they did it would waste valuable film time that could be spent being blown completely away by Mr Jaa's astonishing martial arts abilities. Unlike the overblown big budget wire stunts, sword spinning and effects laden Hong Kong cinematic fluff that dominates Asian cinematic action outings, Thai action flicks rely on the skill, training and hardcore toughness of their casts and Ong Bak is the ultimate example of a film industry where the actors truly put their bodies on the line. See it before you die or God will almost certainly reincarnate you as a donkey fart.

Good movie and look at Muay Thai martial arts, Jackie Chan style with some far fetched scenes, but, good overall. Look forward to the next installment

The action scenes and stunts are something to behold. They are executed flawlessly. The film has a flaw here and there, but its amazing to see a break out performance that reminds me of a young Jackie Chan.

Im a big Tony Jaa fan, you would think this movie would be action packed, following its other movies, I saw the trailer and thought this going to be another great Tony Jaa movie. I saw it once and that was it. There's a few nice fighting scenes but not enough. I give this movie a D.

This is a very good fight movie with scenes of very exciting fights.