With that said I'm assuming most of the foreign language acting is terrible too, but for obvious reasons the Australian acting stood out more. All the English-spoken acting is terrible. Petchtai Wongkamlao essentially reprises the comedy role he played in the previous release, although this time he hogs all the comic moments, as the wafer-thin script offers little in compensation for its action scenes. Warrior King has an almost identical structure to his first film Ong Bak: a good 25 minutes or so of religious Thai imagery, villagers roaming around with animals before someone comes along and messes everything up. The maker of this film, Prachya Pinkaew, is either a really shoddy storyteller, or has clocked on to the fact that no one goes to see martial arts films for the plot. As our hero Kham, he must travel there himself to basically kick the living snot out of anyone who steps in his way. Muay Thay expert-extraordinaire Tony Jaa returns to lead us once again, as his sacred elephants are poached from Thailand and sent to, of all places, Australia. In fact, every other word spoken appears to be "Argh!". The makers of 2003's Ong-Bak are back with bang, a crash, a couple of elephants and many, many cracks.
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