The Protector 2 Reviews

Well I always love a good Tony Jaa flick. It's also nice to see the little girl badass from Chocolate is also in this. The director is also the one who made Chocolate, the previous Protector movie, and even the original Ong Bak film. It's pretty cheesy compared to the previous film like the fact that he loses his elephant again. Hopefully it won't become the theme again in a third movie, but it's still funny in this one. The acting is pretty bad from the people who speak English. It just feels like none of them actually know the language even RZA seems to act like he doesn't understand the English language. There is also a lot more CGI thrown into the fight scenes. That being said the fight scenes are still pretty awesome and they managed to come up with some original ideas which is hard to do in an action movie. I think Jeeja Yanin plays twins in this, but I could be wrong. It's definitely not as good as the first one, but it is still enjoyable.

There were a few things that bothered me though about this sequel.

1. While the fight scenes were awesome they could be a bit cheesy at times. One specific moment was the electric fight that sounded like a lightsaber duel if you weren't looking at the screen. Another moment was the fire fight as I think it's just not plausible what happened there.

2. The close up camera shots during fights were unnecessary. It kind of made it look like he wasn't even in the scene. Also it just looked plain silly.

3. There are some good twists, but there are also some twists that make you go "What???". Some things bring up questions that are never answered. Why did so and so do this and that? It just leaves you with a quizzical look on your face.

4. RZA's acting is atrocious. He acts like he doesn't know what he's doing. He sounds like someone who is having difficulty speaking English which really doesn't make any damn sense. I had to mention it twice because I really just can't wrap my head around it. What was with his crazy eyes at the end? Very strange!

5. What exactly caused the bikers to attack him? I know it's probably because of the villain. I might have missed something here. I mean I am sure that he either hired them or put a bounty for him, but they were trying to kill him. Was it one of the bad guy's tests? If there is a bounty on his head why weren't there other people trying to kill him as well? If he hired them why didn't he have them killed for their failure? Then again this goes with what I mentioned about questions being unanswered.

Now don't get me wrong I did enjoy this movie, but it is loaded with nonsense, errors, and the plot seems all over the place. It seems like they cut too much from the movie or decided not to finish it completely. I mean it took them around 8 years to get this out so you would think they could have made sure the plot made sense. It was a rather disappointing directing job from Prachya Pinkaew who up until this movie has made some pretty badass stories. I might be being a little harsh. Check it out if you enjoy Tony Jaa, but don't expect a high value story. The fight scenes are the only good thing about this unfortunate sequel.