recommended

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Seriously i don't know whats wrong with Thai people. JC Van Damme proved over 20 years earlier that you can have a good Thai movie based around typical revenge story and kick boxing. After All the American KickBoxing comes from the Thai Muay Thai. But these days every time i see a Thai movie, it have to be settle on some "no money" village with typical monks, and the main protagonist always have to go after a national treasure being stolen or something like that. I mean this is like a total Ong Bak rip off on every side. The fight are pretty good, but the story is dumb. But Ong Bak had that little feeling about it back then that manage to have us captivated. But here, basically you get that guy that in the beginning get his ass totally kicked out, and after a supposed magical thecnological or whatever medal is activated, he become a brute in combat. Seriously Mike B is an awesome stuntman or Martial Artist, depend on how you see it, but basically i think the fights where at the level of Tony Jaa here, but the story was as dumb and interesting as Ong Bak 2 & 3... I prefer to watch the same American kick boxing movie of the 90s 25 times like they did back then to that kind of Thai story always being centred around national treasure and mythical stuff giving them strenght or whatever. Basically if your looking for a no brainer MA movie, than yeah its a good entertaining, but i couldn't care less about these characters, there is almost no development, and nothing to make you feel for them. Suddenly the main character pass from a wimp to a master... with a 1 min solo kata training... cmon... like i would take the classic and overdone story of the 90s American movies anytime before that(hero is a good fighter but get his ass kick by a stronger fighter, train for many weeks/months with a master, come back and kick the bad guy ass)

The story seemed intriguing enough and the military man in the beginning looked tough enough to carry the movie. Unfortunately, after 3 min of good combat, I find out that he is no more and the movie shift to nowadays. Bad idea ! The kids in the movie turned out to be less than thrilling and more pop stars than fighters. The bad guys, a mix of European and eastern descent, can't act because kicking is mainly their thing and not impressive there also. Russell Wong is the only one who can act, but his martial arts are wooden, a far cry from Romeo must die.The rest of the movie is just a mish mash of bad action and martial art, with the usual religious kind of experience who make the hero, suddenly, invincible.

Kirk (the amusingly named Michael B.) discovers an ancient Thai vase buried under the ground at a temple he visits. What he doesn't know if that this is one of three stolen national treasures and he is quickly killed after he pawns the vase he found. His twin brother Krit (also B.) then deals with a group of mercenaries led by Patrick (Russell Wong) who are posing as geologists to locate the other two items. Once they do, Krit must stop them from taking the priceless items across the border. A Thai action film about a guy fighting to save something stolen? No way! Michael B. (sometimes credited as Mike B.) started his career as a stunt man/punching bag for Tony Jaa in ONG BAK. This is his second feature as a lead following BRAVE (2007) and re-teams him that film's director Thanapon Maliwan. While B. does perform some impressive moves, the movies are just kind of there, sort of like low end Isaac Florentine ripoffs. The fights are plentiful in the short 80-minute running time. On the plus side, this one isn't an editing and wire-work mess like the recent RAGING PHOENIX, JeeJa Yanin's disappointing wire- work laden follow up to CHOCOLATE (2008). I would say the last 15 minutes are worth the view as B. takes on Erik Markus Schuetz (also from Jaa's features) and Russel Wong (still looking fit in his 40s).