Customer Reviews

Battle Warrior

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

After being majorly disappointed by Spirited Killer, I set my expectations much lower for this movie. Unfortunately, it is even worse than Spirited Killer. The story is not really worth going over. Basically there is some guy who knows where a valuable stone is. An evil General and his men want the stone and are trying to get it. There is also a group of good guys trying to find the guy who knows where the stone is. That is the story.

Tony Jaa plays one of the bad guys and looks pretty good in his 2 fight scenes, but all of the other fights are really bad. Some of the stunts are good, but not on par with most of Panna Rittikrai's other movies. The good guys have a Rambo type person on their side and he kind of drags the movie down because his movements are very slow. But overall the main reason this movie is so bad is because there aren't many fights. I can stand a bad story as long as the fights are good, but this movie doesn't provide that. Even the big finale isn't worth sticking around for. Thre are some decent explosions, but nothing to get excited about.

Rating- 1/5. This movie really makes you appreciate how much effort was put into Panna's 2 Born to Fight movies.

Picture quality is surprisingly good (well, good for Videoasia). There is a HORRIBLE English dub track, but luckily there is also an original language track and subtitles.




The only reason this 2-disc DVD set gets more than a 1 star rating is because of the special features.

4 minute interview with Tony Jaa talking about Tom Yum Goong. No new information here, but while he is talking they show a really cool demonstration he did on some TV show.

6 minute interview with Jaa talking about his inspiration for getting into films and a few other interesting topics.

10 minute interview on some Thai comedy TV show with Prachya Pinkaew, Jaa, Panna, and Petchtai Wongkamlao. Mildly entertaining.

5 minute demonstration and interview that Jaa did in Hong Kong. Good stuff here, but nothing you haven't seen before if you are a Jaa fan.

22 minute interview with the producer of Pechpanna Films and a director/actor for the company. Awesome interview! They talk about some really cool stuff, such as a new Thai movie called The Brave. It isn't subtitled and the dubbing is really cheesy, but that actually makes it more enjoyable (to me at least). And there are some good action scenes mixed into the interview.

3 minute Tony Jaa interview. It seems like they are just trying to pile on the special features with this. Only thing to talk about is a 1 minute demo they show at the end of the interview.

Last but not least is an interview with Christoph Kluppel who is a big German Rambo guy that stars in Battle Warrior. He talks about his film career. I suppose this would be interesting if I was a fan of him.

I was first introduced to Tony Jaa in the film The Protector, which I enjoyed very much. When I came across Battle Warrior, with the 2007 release date, I was really looking forward to watching the movie but was very disappointed. This movie was produced in 1996, although you'd never know it from the DVD printing. In fact, I had to search the internet for information about this film since I simply could not believe this was actually a Tony Jaa film, it's so bad...

Yes, the movie is campy and old-style dubbed, and it's entertaining to some degree because of it. However, it's actually very boring and poorly filmed. Some of the scenes are so dark you can't see anything that's going on.

Bottom line is, if you can stomach the lousy filming, mediocre fight scenes, and almost no Tony Jaa, you might enjoy this movie. Otherwise, I would say the promotional statements on the DVD documentation are down-right and purposefully deceptive as to the date of this film. It will not stop me from purchasing other Tony Jaa movies (his fighting style is simply amazing) - but I will be more careful in the future about any further releases. The Protector is a keeper. Battle Warrior ended up in the "don't bother viewing again" section of my DVD library.

This is strictly a marketing ploy. The movie stinks, is poorly shot and everything about it is sub-standard quality. Don't waste your time. Check out Tony Jaa's other films though.

This is the worst movie I had ever watched in my entire life. The plot was so poor as well as the actions. The filmed was poorly made and I believe back in 1996, there were quality movies have been made but this does not qualify a bit to be one. Where is Tony by the way ! Zombies in the jungle, tribemen and rebel-like soldiers,,,wow what a waste. I can say the budget was about 10-25K US$ or maybe less. Where can you find a golden stone treasure that even the King of Jordan and Prince of Saudi would like to buy it for 1B US$ which only lies beside the riverbank where the rebels live. One more, an almost hundred rebel soldier attacked by 2-3 good guys and yet the explosion is everwhere as if they were attacked by vietcongs..
Those who are fan of Tony Jaa, never ever try renting, buying or even watching this movie. The cover was deceptively made to fool the consumers. Too dark, too slow, extremely poor movie. ZERO rating for me.

This movie is a piece of garbage. First of all it is grossly mis-advertised. The plot description on the back of the DVD cover makes it sounds as if Tony Jaa is the hero of the movie protecting an artifact from bad guys, when in fact the exact opposite is true. Tony Jaa is a bad guy who has about 7 minutes of screen time. As for the plot, it makes less than no sense, the dubbing is horrific (I noticed the voices for one character changing through out the movie), at one point the dubbing just stops for a few minutes. There are zombies, black goblins, a big German guy named Smith, and for those who appreciate the art of bad cinema, this is a gem. I admit your brain needs to be wired a certain way to find this kind of thing funny, but if it is, you'll be laughing for days.

never received item. last time i was asked to review item, i opted to contact seller instead. i noted the situation and was never contacted by the seller. NOT IMPRESSED.

Im a big fan of Tony Jaa, he's almost up there with jackie Chan(not just yet). But this is my second time falling for the photo shop, up to date promo cover. The first time it happened with "Spirited Killer", and Tony was barely in that as well, this movie...... I'm use to horrible Dubbing, but this movie, I was done with the movie, when the big Australian dude came into the picture and when he started talking, they gave him a voice of what sounded like a(n) old asian man that spoke broken english. I couldnt stomach watching the rest, I was seriously disappointed.

If you enjoyed Ong-Bak,Thai Warrior,watch it again. Don't waste your time or money on this. A really annoying villain, and zombies in the jungles of Thailand aren't the biggest problems. The action, special effects and the whole script are really lame. It isn't bad enough to be funny, just disappointing.

Oh gosh this is terrible. Poor quality all around and nothing but running around and shooting and fighting. Hardly a script. Inexcusable photography. Why are there special features? I must admit that I was so turned off that I did not look at them. I was in no mood even to be amused.

I liked a lot of things about The Protector and decided to give this a try. But any similarity was unrecognizable.

Not a keeper!

Oh, this film is terrible and is nothing like the quality of "Ong Bak". A minimal plot about the rescue of a archiologist/treasure hunter from a large group of drug-smugglers, pitiful dialog, simple photography, and weak action scenes make this film worthy of the trashcan. Much of the climactic battle at the end is done with gunfire and small explosions (with the exception of the guard towers - they explode into fireballs) instead of Thai martial arts. I did have a chuckle at the cringe-worthy conversations between the characters but otherwise this is not worth wasting either time or money on.