Can anyone tell me what is actually going on in this film?? Firstly, and this is key, the fight sequences are top notch and I come to expect nothing less from Tony Jaa. Having seen the prequels to this film (Ong Bak in particular is fantastic) and Warrior King this doesn't quite live up to first Ong Bak but it has a good go. There is no question that Jaa's physical prowess is phenomenal, a serious Jackie Chan if you will. Jaa's directorial style in places is snappy with some interesting tricks. Lots of long tracking shots in the fights really help to prove that there are no Wires, CGI and certainly no stunt men. Secondly, and this is the problem, the film is a classic case of style over content. The storyline has more holes than a string vest and what bits you can understand are silly, out of context and flat out odd. I have watched this twice and I feel no more clued up. Can anyone explain the man with the wicker basket on his head?To sum up - this is one of those films that you will want to fast forward until there is a fight which means it will take you about 20 minutes in total to watch this film. Great fighting but not much else. If you want to watch a fantastic martial arts film in the last 5 years then when you have skipped to the fights in this, go out and get yourself RAID and RAID 2: Berandal, then you will have to opportunity to watch two modern classics of the martial arts era!!

So this is basically a sequel to "Ong Bak 2" which wasn't a good movie. This one is way more slow with it's pacing in a very irrelevant manner. It's like the makers forgot they are making a martial arts movie or something. I know they planned for the 3rd installment while making the 2nd. But if they combined 2 and 3 and cut out all the bull crap scenes it would have probably been a good movie. Instead they probably wanted to fill in the running time because it has to be at least an hour and 30 minutes long. So they filled it with boring and dragged out stuff. You have to actually sit through more than an hour of rubbish to get to some fight sequences. Even the cover on the DVD is a lie. Most of the running time of this flick is taken up with the recovery of Tien(Tony Jaa), meditation, dancing and curses and it's so darn dragged out and boring. It's just not a good story for one movie. What is irritating is how the main villain Rajasena gets cut off that was kinda built up from the 2nd movie and some irrelevant character named Bhuti that came out of nowhere takes his spot. When Tien built his vengeance for that other villain Rajasena and doesn't doesn't even know much about this Bhuti. If he faced Rajasena at the end at least Tien's actions would have been a bit more meaningful. Just skip to the last fight scene cause that is the only thing that is worth seeing in this movie. Petchtai Wongkamlao is also in this and he was very slightly comedic and irrelevant like he was in "Ong Bak 2" but at least he was slightly comedic although he didn't make me laugh or nothing.4.5/10

In my opinion, the first Ong Bak film had more of a cutting edge thrill ride filled with diverse fight scenes. The use of weponary was a lot more enforced and I could feel the connection between man and weapon in that film. Ong Bak 3 is really good however, the time Tien spends healing himself lingers on for to long for my liking. It felt like a really detailed and in depth process, the director may have gone for this look but didn't appeal to me personally. The fight scene at the end was absolutely glorious, you clearly see how Tien has taking into account his dancing talents and used them to use advantage, I don't like the fact that Tien sort of turned back time after fighting many foes in the courtyard, I think it would have been could if there was less guards and if he had hurt them all. It sort breaches the supernatural as well which I was a bit edgy on when Tien makes the soldiers go all weird. All in all, the film was amazing, I LOVED it, definitely recommend it :)

I registered onto IMDb just so I can tell you that this is the worst martial arts movie I've ever seen. I saw and enjoyed both the other movies. I had low expectations for this one, and they weren't met. In fact, the movie made me angry. The story seems to have been written by a random word generator - it involves nonsensical curses, a king who has unintentionally funny hallucinations, a crow woman who sounds like a female transformer, and things that happen that didn't really happen. I tried to understand what was going on, and I did not succeed.There's also scenes of graphic violence and torture that is a lot more mean spirited than what we've seen in Tony Jaa's other movies. This isn't fun, and it's not like the movie has any deeper meaning or interesting characters to justify it. Do we really need to see an uninterrupted shot of a person's throat being slit open and blood spewing out? How about two? The fight scenes? There's only one or two long ones, late in the movie, and that's when I perked up. Unfortunately, they're a disappointment. They're obviously sped up and sometimes there are wires involved. The moves Jaa does are the same ones he does in all his movies, except not as good and sometimes obviously choreographed. As expected, everyone attacks one at a time, but this time you can see them standing in the background waiting their turn. Tony Jaa's gotta make some better choices - the guys career has been going downhill after his first movie. The guy's got talent but it's being completely wasted.