12-26-2025, 12:47 AM
(03-05-2025, 10:43 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Striking Rescue
Jaa is back with my friend, former Shaolin monk Shi Yanneng.
Jaa is back with a father/daughter revenge film. He plays Bai An, and his wife & daughter are killed by drug runners, so from scene 1 he’s on the road to vengeance. It’s a Chinese made film set in Thailand so the dialog bounces back and forth between both languages and it adds a level of depth to know who is speaking which. There’s also some English but with no regard to grammar so that’s all broken up. An ends up rescuing the daughter of the ceo that he is looking to kill; they team up to find him after he’s kidnapped by a rival gang. There’s a fun line where he tells her to jump off a balcony and she refuses saying ‘I’m not Tony Jaa’.
The fight choreo is hard hitting. Jaa sells a roundhouse, an elbow strike, and flying knees like no one else in the biz. And the fights escalate with Jaa taking out hordes of machete-wielding gangsters and a handful of lead thugs like the yoked bodyguard of the girl, a psycho chick with groovy shades wielding double hammers with spikes, lots of guys with guns that cant shoot, and ultimately ex-monk Yanneng (glad I got some selfies with him in our Shaolin days). Satisfying ultravi - the sort where you stab someone with a kitchen knife only to have them pull it out and stab you back with it. Also, who has a wall rack of baseball bats?
A decent park-your-brain-outside actioner. D00M recommended.
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