“Thai Fighters” Poster
Fair warning, I am absolutely overrating Thai Fighters by a fair margin simply because, well, it’s been so damn long since we’ve seen a Thai martial arts movie! Not counting Tony Jaa’s endeavors in the Chinese market such as Striking Rescue, the last time I can really remember sitting down for a bonafide Muay Thai action flick would have to be 2014’s Vengeance of an Assassin, which not-so-coincidentally was the final film directed by Tony Jaa’s mentor, Panna Rittikrai, before his untimely passing at the age of fifty-three. The whole genre of Thai action seemed to more or less grow entirely dormant after Rittikrai left us much too soon. (The only example I think I might have missed in the intervening years was 2017’s Broken Sword Hero).
So while Thai Fighters is not a particularly great film, it did feel incredibly welcoming to be back in the milieu of the goofy Thai action-comedy, you know, the kind where actors mug for the camera and the questionable humor is occasionally broken up by slow-mo shots of somebody’s elbow connecting with a stuntman’s cranium. The plot, which might be more accurately called ‘a flimsy series of circumstances,’ revolves around the stubborn conflict between the Northern and Southern sides of a rural village in Thailand. I don’t think you’ll be shocked to learn that both North and South will eventually have to put aside their petty differences and team up when a dangerous gangster targets their humble outpost.
I had a feeling from the trailer for Thai Fighters that this was going to be one of those movies where most of the action is crammed into the last fifteen minutes, which mercifully isn’t the case, but I won’t lie and say there’s a ton of action in this thing. Still, the presence Continue reading
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