When the head of Ong-Bak, the sacred Buddha of a poor village, is stolen, young martial artist Boonting goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
9 February 1982, Bangkok, Thailand
1 June 1957, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
5 February 1976, Surin, Thailand
1973, Germany
1961, Khon Kaen, Thailand
8 April 1971, Bangkok, Thailand
23 March 1981, Kalasin Province, Thailand
August 13, 2016
[Tony] Jaa has an impressive physique, a steel snap to his delivery, and a gymnastic prowess to his style, and director Prachya Pinkaew puts it all on display in an endearingly naïve martial arts adventure.March 03, 2005
No prizes will be awarded to anyone who guesses that Ting beats all assailants and recovers the artifact. What you might not anticipate is how viscerally exciting director Prachya Pinkaew makes the action scenes.February 17, 2005
What Jaa does is often mesmerizing.March 04, 2005
Ong Bak is not very good -- but Hollywood suits would be nuts not to give Jaa a role in every action flick they make from now on.February 16, 2005
The artifice-free antidote to such F/X enervation -- a jaw-dropper of a star-making display from lithe fighter-artist Tony Jaa, framed by a plot as bare-bones as a backroom boxing ring.April 29, 2009
Knocked my socks off, and I was cursing myself for not seeing it sooner.June 21, 2007
Genius. Perfection. Thai-style fighting with sequences that will make you shout at the screen.September 26, 2009
May be the supreme example of a filmic endeavor succeeding exclusively for one cinematic aspect.July 21, 2012
The best parts of this movie are the gritty and grisly fight sequences that have a power and intensity you don't find in many movies nowadays.August 24, 2006
Just a showcase for Jaa's athletic abilities.March 03, 2005
Jaa's moves are impressive, but the choreography ranges from bland to ridiculous (as when one dirty fighter resorts to using major appliances as weapons).February 14, 2005
I think you have to hang a plot and some suspense around this. It was just so dopey and so endless and so repetitive. The guy's got talent, but thumbs down for this movie.