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The Protector (2006)
A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards. (read more)
| Release Date: | September 8th, 2006 |
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The Protector Movie Review by Zara  (3/9/2008) |
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I have no idea why Tony Jaa isn't a bigger star in America yet, other than to guess that his English lessons haven't paid off as quickly as Jackie Chan's did.
While Jaa has a style and fearlessness to him that Chan's movies once held (wireless stunts that he does on his own, choreographing his own fight scenes), he also...
(complete The Protector review by Zara)
| The Protector Movie Review by James (9/9/2006) |
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Ok, this movie is for people who like great fights. There are two in particular that really blew me away. They seemed to be done in one long shot each, and that has to be crazy hard to do.
Tony Jaa not only stars in this, but co-choreographed the fighting. His skills do really shine in this movie. However he doesn't...
(complete The Protector review by James)
When I first saw the trailer for this movie I was caught off guard. The first few seconds show Tony Jaa in native countryside Thai attire (loin cloth and headband more or less) walking along side an elephant. I instantly thought this was another live-action remake of THE JUNGLE BOOK (Jason Scott Lee had a similar look when...
(complete The Protector review by The Alpha Craig)
| The Protector Movie Review by Chris (2/29/2008) |
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The Protector, directed by none other than Prachya Pinkaew, is a non stop, adrenaline pumping example of a great action film. I had known, since I first started the movie (thank you Encore) that It was just going to be awesome. The directing of the film is unbelievable, a method in which many American directors never use....
(complete The Protector review by Chris)
One would not think that an elephant would be so important that someone would travel from Thailand to Austrailia to find one - or two - but, apparently they are something special to Khan (Thai Warrior's Tony Jaa).
Unlike the PC martial arts in Super Hawk, the action here gets downright bone cracking. Reminisent of Jet Li,...
(complete The Protector review by Movie Addict)
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