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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Born to fight, 30 Dec 2005
If you like Ong Bak then you should find this entertaining, although it is not well thought out storywise (and who cares) it makes up with great fighting. Like Ong Bak, i recommend get a few mates round have a few Stella's and watch this, for a great night of bone crunching violence.The only reason i gave it 3 stars is because their was no story but four stars for the action.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
could of been so much better!!!, 5 Sep 2006
"I SHALL BREAK THIS MOVIE DOWN"
The story, such as it is, concerns Deaw (Dan Chupong who to me is under-rated yet highly skilled)deaw is a young cop who we first see capturing a notorious gun smuggler named Yang (Noppol Gomarachun) In the ensuing insanity, involving those semi trucks seen in the trailers and the initial stills of "Born to Fight" that appeared on the net, Deaw survives, Yang is captured, but Deaw's boss and mentor gets fried to a 'Peeking Duck' Now a clichéd burnt out cop suffering from self-doubt and guilt, Deaw takes a trip with his little sister to a rural village where she and her athlete pals plan to dole out food and toys to the villagers. Of the athletes, there is a rugby player, a soccer coach, and other assorted gymnasts whose names I'm not sure were ever mentioned.
"Born to Fight" essentially breaks down into two halves, with the first half showing a complete disregard to innocent human life! & the second half being a whole 40 something minutes long devoted to the 'WAIT FOR IT THE "fight back" sequence 'YAY' Ooo u all excited lol kid you not when I say that the film runs for 40 minutes straight with endless scenes of the athletes and Deaw taking it to the bad guys, making use of their individual skills. Everyone gets their moment to shine, from the football coach who uses anything he can get his foot on to, well, "football" the bad guys to death wouldnt mind this guy taking england penalties he wouldnt miss lol Oo and there is The rugby player basically throws people around cause he's, you know, big and a bit of a ard nut lol And another athlete, who bounces small, wooden balls off his head and knees, bounces small wooden balls and erm small wooden balls =o/ basically just about anything he can bounce onto the bad-guy's heads. And of course the female athletes do, well, athletic stuff. It's all very "Gymkata"-ish. amazing how a female gymast can stumble upon something 'Gymnasticish' Such as the wooden beam well something that resembles one anyway lol
anyway this review is getting ridiculously long isnt it i do apologise, to cut an already long story short =)
"Born to Fight" is 90-odd minutes of random over-the-top action shot to a throbbing techno soundtrack so get out those glow sticks , plz' plz people who have heard this movie being compared to ong-bak take not this is no "ong-bak" although it does come dangerously close to being that other movie's bastard love child. Rittikrai certainly knows how to kill stuntmen, and there should probably be a law against such wanton disregard for human life lol Then again, if you're one of those people who have been anticipating "Born to Fight" based on everything you've heard and seen, you should love it. It's everything I thought it would be - mindless, pointless, and insane & most of all stupid in a entertaining sort of way, yes you heard correctly 'stupid' Watch the scene where Deaw and two bad guys wail on each other with flaming 2x4's and tell me you still want to take this movie seriously... lol i cant say anymore.. buy it and enjoy the stunt's that's about it...
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Almost perfect, 15 Sep 2005
This film could have been a classic except for two things. First the addition of a threat to a city seemed a little tacked on to my mind and superfluous as if they just decided to add a larger threat for the sake of it or because they were afraid viewers wouldn't care about the fate of the village, (which is ridiculous because the assault on the village is so sudden and brutal you can't help but feel for them).
Secondly is the addition of gimmicky martial arts. For the most parts the fights with the main character are gritty and realistic and it makes them very satisfying but some of the fight scenes try on a few shaolin soccer style exaggerated moves and these simply aren't as good. Don't get me wrong they aren't flying around like superheros but doing a Beckham to knock a guard out of a tower at about a hundred metres or more is pretty far fetched.
I seem to have concentrated on what is wrong with the film but there is an awful lot that is good. The stunts in this film are astounding you will wince at some of them and wonder how the actor walked away breathing, the action is fantastic. Obviously I had to read the dialogue but the story, apart from tacked on elements, was satisfying and surprisingly emotional in places. Overall it is a great film but just misses out on that 5 star accolade.
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