Tony Jaa is undeniably one of the best action stars we have today. His stunt is mercilessly violent, delivering each devastating blow with pinpoint accuracy. The main reason The Protector 2 is such a letdown is because the film lacks the usual crisp stunts, then replaces them with a lot of CG and poorly made 3D effect. The plot is abysmal, not that most of his work offer complex story anyway, but with less than stellar action, it's harder to overlook the faults in narrative.Story follows Kham (Tony Jaa) as he tries to rescue his elephant buddy once again, but this time he's involved in illegal fighting ring, a murder investigation and a conspiracy to throw nations into war. There is so much going on without any decent explanation. People are literally popping out of nowhere, it has no start up or careful development of any kind. This is almost like a flash mob, but instead of dancing they just fight randomly.Many sequences are dubious, there is barely any transition between a scene and the next one. Kham might run in rooftops, climbing buildings, and then suddenly fighting thugs in a warehouse of some sort. It's simply not coherent enough to establish foundation for solid storyline. Characters are strictly shallow, an unfortunate misuse of RZA and Yanin "Jeeja" Vismitananda (Chocolate). With them in the cast, the characterization could have had more range, but director Prachya Pinkaew didn't capitalize the actors efficiently.Fight scenes are sadly watered down with CGI. Some wire stunts are acceptable, but there is considerably more special effect in play. Granted, CGI will ensure less injury since they deal with dangerous hardwares, but this is not the direction Tony Jaa movie should go as his main selling point is the brutal unadulterated fist of face contact. Instead the movie goes to unimpressive 3D effect of throwing projectile into the screen, it is the farthest thing from improvement. Some acts are even borderline unintentionally funny.Nevertheless, the fight is still top-notch and better than most action films, however that alone will not be enough to overcome its many horrible flaws.

The sequel to the amazing action piece The Protector fails on every level. Tony Ja is slowly killing his career and needs to get back to basics. There is no need to mention plot because that is not why you watch a movie like this. You want action-packed fight scenes that 1 - up its predecessor not fake CGI! It looks bad and is acted even worst.The first movie was simple, put Tony Ja against tough bad guys and get the hell out of his way! You don't need terrible actors trying to play BAD @$#%@* when we no there not like that in real life (RZA). AVOID!!! AVOID!! AVOID!! and go rent The protector if you want to see Tony Ja show what he can really do!

oh my god how bad was this, all the moves and set ups were so slow and obvious, everything was just really bad, the acting the script the characters and jaa seriously like all your moves just became boring as you just elbowed people in the head constantly its not a great move its boring to watch, jump elbow in the head. Jump on a dirt book, elbow him in the head, run at people slide through their legs turn them around slowly and then just hits them in the top of the head...oh my god what a waste of nearly 2 hours :( so bad you better be putting some effort into fast and furious 7 you really do...if you want to see action this is not the film that you want to go and see, it is rubbish, the big scenes with the main fighters I thought OK this could be the big fight scenes I want to see, and no they were also rubbish, at one point they use star wars lightsaber sounds when they kick each other its like what the hell.I can actually say this is the worst martial arts film ever made...

mild spoiler below: I felt asleep watching this one. I hope you don't A: Idiotic Ideas. Do they think we are stupid or are they that stupid?1. bad guys ride 50+ motor bikes (up the stairs??) to the roof top to fight tony ja and when they get there, they don't get off the bike and cycle/circle around him for 20 minutes one by one to let tony punch them in the face? Almost no close fighting that I expect to have a lot in this long unrealistic scene. 2. the above scene continues on the street, with 100+ bikes!! with some non-firing arms like pipes and knives. after some chasing, without reason, just about 20 bikes left, one suddenly takes out a gun? Why not use it in the first place?? That's where i start to fall sleep ... B: bad fighting, bad CGI i have not watched tony's first movie, while expecting a lot with the good reputation. he wasn't that amazing in the second one. i read from other reviews that he is slower in this one, and i agree he is slow, compared to others. and you can definitely see lots of scenes that you can tell its a green screen shot in the factory added with POOR CGI. watch 'chocolate' instead if you watch a good thai fighting movie. much better storyline, plot, great fighting sceneman, why introduce a gun suddenly after 20 minutes of fighting (and not use it in the beginning)? ? it just doesn't make sense ... just some good fighting will do, skip the guns if you do a kungfu movie(unless you keep the fighting close and have them disarmed real quick).