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    Souper Action, Weak Broth

    Reviewed by: Greg Jorgensen

    Let’s get the nasty part out of the way first – Tom Yum Goong is a martial arts porno movie. The plot is threadbare, around only to qualify the movie as more than a clip compilation. The good parts are great for sure, but the script is such a minefield of clichés and preposterous situations that I found myself wincing at times, wondering if the film makers really expect this movie to hold up in international markets. The incredible Tony Ja deserves better than this for the movie that everyone hopes will launch him to world wide stardom.

    Ja plays Kham, a mahout from northern Thailand who grows up hearing his father tell of the noble elephant protectors that his family descends from. During the Songkran festival, the two elephants (father and baby) that belong to his father are stolen; the only clue being a picture of a restaurant called Tom Yum Goong that was left behind. After crashing a party (that for some reason looks like its taking place in 1972) and nearly killing everyone in the building, Kham finds that the place is located in Australia, and promptly sets off to get his elephants back.

    Prachya Pinkaew’s script is – literally – a carbon copy of Ja’s first movie, Ong Bak. Instead of chasing a stolen Buddha and beating up bad guys in Bangkok, he’s chasing stolen elephants and beating up bad guys in Sydney – there isn’t much more to say. Even his sidekick (Mum Jokmok) is the same. The weak plot isn’t helped by the editing either, which is atrocious. The process of editing is supposed to lead the viewer on an adventure to the logical conclusion. In Tom Yung Goong, we’re suddenly and often presented with scenes that make no sense with characters that we don’t get introduced to and sometimes don’t see again. Choppy to say the best.

    Also hampering any logical progression of logic, many of the incidents that happen are really silly, reminding me of an early 90’s Van Damme movie. When confronting bad guy Johnny (a smirking Johnny Nguyen) in a warehouse, Kham is cornered by an army of rollerblading and BMX’ing punks that appear out of nowhere when Johnny yanks on an air horn. I guess they’re paid a retainer to keep their skates laced up, ready to kick some ass at a moments’ notice. And while we’re on the topic, what possible tactical advantage could fighting on rollerblades give? Another scene has a character getting away from a gang of sprinting thugs on a Segway motorscooter (top speed of a human: 23 mph. Segway – 12.5 mph). It’s little quirks like this that keep the eyes rolling.

    To be sure, the martial arts scenes are amazing, and they’re nearly enough to carry the entire movie. Much has been written about a particular sequence that is done in an unbroken 4 minute take that has Kham running up a spiral staircase breaking bones all the way, which is impressive. The other standout scene was an intricate battle between Ja and capoeira master Lateef Crowder that must have taken weeks to choreograph. And of course there’s the battle between Ja and Australian freakshow Nathan Jones, who stands just under 7 feet tall. This guy makes Ja look like a Lego figurine, and their fight is appropriately brutal. Many of the fight scenes were accompanied by overdone sound effects of bones breaking and feet contacting heads, which only served to remind you how staged the whole thing was. Product placements abound, cheesy cameos are sprinkled throughout with no reason and there’s even a too-obvious anti-pirating plug. These are all symptoms of too many cooks in the kitchen, a classic example of what happens when businessmen get too involved in film making.

    I may come off a bit harsh here but it’s only out of love that I am. Tony Ja is an incredible find, a martial artist truly capable of taking things to the next level. Handsome without being pretty, confident without being arrogant, his talent deserves a team more dedicated to giving him quality scripts and projects that have him doing more than just screaming for elephants. How is a guy supposed to learn to act if he never has a chance to say anything?

    His next project with the same director is called ‘Sword,’ another martial arts epic. Let’s hope that instead of filling the movie with un-needed filler and sponsors’ logos, they let Ja actually act and keep things lean and mean like they did with Ong Bak – the first and still the best in what I hope is a long line of Tony Ja movies.

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