The Protector 2

Tom Yum Goong 2, also known in the US as The Protector 2, in the UK as Warrior King 2 and in Germany as Return of the Warrior is a 2013 Thai martial arts film directed by Prachya Pinkaew and written by Eakisit Thairaat. It is the sequel to Pinkaew's Tom-Yum-Goong with Tony Jaa and Petchtai Wongkamlao reprising their roles. Vision wrote: "the usual Jaa formula. The action choreography was overrated and not that convincing at times. With the action coming fast and furious, especially when the script basically gives up any pretence at coherency halfway through the film overcomes a clumsy, complicated set-up and breaks through. Worth a watch. Especially the martial arts from Marrese Crump and RZA. Rhatha Phongam as No. 20 convinced us that she has a prominent future. Three fries!"

Minha opinião: "O Protetor 1" Imagine uma OBRA DE ARTE, COM CERTEZA UM DOS MELHORES FILMES DE ARTES MARCIAIS QUE ASSISTI. Mas este 2º filme que é continuação do 1º, deixou muito a desejar, muito mesmo. São 2 universos totalmente diferente. Este filme já peca com sua estoria e enredo. Fracos de mais. Oque faz o papel de vilão, ele tenta parecer mal, mas é fraco. O Mark que fez um papel importante no 1º, aqui não tem peso no filme. A parte com maior emoção foi a perseguição com as lambretas. Uma pena este filme. Roteiro e enredo fraquíssimo. Vale apena assistir? Não. Como pode do céu ao inferno. Nota: 3

This second installment to one of my favorite martial arts movie, was not that good, and I felt bad about it. The reason why is because I really loved the first onr to die for, and for me seeing the trailer and then watching the movie after gave me some some disappointment. I was really looking forward to this second installment. Yes it had its good fighting scenes no doubt on that , but it didn't have the same vibe as the first one. As that being said for some good fighting scenes and some new villans for Tony Jaa , but not being enough to impress me, like the first one, This second installment was just ok, I really wanted to like this movie, So for that I give " The Protector 2 " a solid C.

The Protector is one of my favorite Martial Arts films, and when Tony Jaa disappeared for years, only to reappear with this bloated mess of a movie, I was very disappointed. Oh, much of the fighting is of high quality, and there is actually even more of it than before, but the movie just feels too long, too thin and oddly frustrating. One reason for this is that there's one central muscle-villain that is literally treated like The Terminator (no matter how hard you beat him down, he's up again 30 seconds later), and in order to generate tension, the baddies will get plenty of cheap-shots on Tony Jaa (and his allies) when the baddies themselves aren't nearly on par with them. Jeeja Yanin has a surprising amount of screentime considering that her part in the movie literally amounts to nothing; truly, she loses every fight and doesn't end up accomplishing something that others were unable, forcing me to believe that she was added to the movie during one of its many times when Production halted simply because she herself is awesome. The movie also has an odd fascination with adding CGI to this movie's fight-scenes from time to time - Honestly it's hardly as bad as you might think from such a low-budget movie industry, but it just comes off as odd for a movie that follows-up a movie that took all efforts to feel as real and lifelike as possible. And to top it all off, it's almost 2 hours long, which is criminal when all of the non-action bits are this badly done. Worth watching once if you're into Martial-Arts movies, but you'll likely only want to see it the once.

Jaa is not the same person here as in in his original movies. The action scenes are poorly executed, the CGI is laughable, the characters are boring ... It really has nothing going for it. Sorry Tony!

This movie had more comedy, and not as epic as the first. But that motorcycle chase scene though.

Back in 2003, Tony Jaa and company proved that lightning can indeed strike twice. With both hits of Ong-Bak (2003) and The Protector (2005) taking audiences by storm, Tony Jaa was labeled the new "Jackie Chan", due to his hard hitting fight scenes and gritty stunt work. But this time around, the filmmakers are missing one fatal flaw, action choreographer Panna Rittikrai. He seems to be the only person from the original crew missing, and the result is a complete and utter mess. The movie tries to recreate the stunts from the original, featuring a shoddy CGI filled motorbike chase that runs on for too long. Then the movie actually has one semi-decent scene, No. 2 (Marrese Crump) and Tony Jaa face off in a shipping yard. The movie never gets to its full momentum, because of the addition of Jeeja Yanin. She was excellent in Chocolate (2008), but she feels superfluous and useless in this movie. She has to avenge her thief of an uncle and twin sister, but in the film she only has a weird taser, acupuncture needles, and subpar fighting skills. Jeeja spends the entire movie getting smacked around by lesser goons, but can somehow take on No. 2 when the plot calls for it. You could have taken her character out of the movie and it wouldn't change anything, so Jeeja Yanin is sorely wasted in this film and should have been a villain. As for RZA, he is about as slow as a turtle in his fight scenes and he might as well be fighting in slow motion. After No. 2 is taken care of, Tony Jaa's character has to fight RZA, who is utterly unconvincing as a martial artist. Wearing a suit and punching Jaa through walls, his punches look so slow and he comes off as more camp than menacing. No. 2 (Marrese Crump) should have played the villain, as he had a better screen presence. Its almost as if the filmmakers made a checklist of what people like about Tony Jaa and Thai cinema, and decided to do the exact opposite. Fight scenes are quick cut edited, the bad CGI is all over the place (like the literal firefight), and the main villain was sorely miscast. All of these things could be forgiven if the movie had some sweet fight scenes, but the movie doesn't even get that right. Despite the little spar between Jaa and No. 2, the movie has nothing else to offer, except a cheesy and laughable plot. The Protector 2 shows the fallacy not pushing yourself to higher standards. Its rumored that Jaa quit the movie industry and became a monk to run out his 10 year film contract, but then on his return he came back to the same people and made this film. Tony Jaa is more capable of this, and this is why The Protector 2 is such a sore disappointment.

I could be forgiving with movies like these that are low in plot. However the action/fight scenes are severely squandered by overuse of bad cgi.this one was very hard to sit through

The Protector 1 was an amazing movie full of classic Tony Jaa action and a fun story. This sequel has a bare bones story but still plenty of jaw dropping action. The biggest complaint I have about this film is that there are to many special effects added to the fight scenes. Tony Jaa's style of action does not need anything special but they decided to make some of the fight scenes unnatural and unrealistic which really took away from the film. Later on in the movie things got back to normal and were straight up fights that were awesome. These types of movies are not good for anything else other then the insane fighting so if you like that kind of stuff you can't go wrong here. Just do not expect anything special with the story, acting or characters.

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.