BKO: Bangkok Knockout
2010 Directed by Panna Rittikrai
Synopsis
In the ultimate fight of their lives only the strongest will survive.
A group of martial arts students are enjoying a reunion party when a bomb goes off in the building. When they wake up, some of their friends have been kidnapped and they soon find a group of assassins coming after them. The only way to survive is to fight their way out.
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If you like movies about stunts where everyone involved was a stuntman, this is your movie. If you're expecting plot, acting or clever dialogue, you need to look elsewhere. However, if you want to see humans doing amazing things while punching, kicking, throwing and immolating other humans, you've come to the right place, friend. Just try to ignore that annoying guy in the Elton John glasses.
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This movie breaks my rating scale I had been using on here. Yes there are artistic movies that I would rate lower than this and I like artsy stuff at times. The action in this movie is worlds above and beyond pretty much everything I have seen up to this point, and yes I've seen some Tony Jaa flicks. Sure the plot is throw away but I oddly enough wound up liking the protagonists in the end simply for their facial expressions. I would have enjoyed the antagonists meeting their demise quite a bit harder and the opening was a bit too long. But those are minor criticisms. Simply put: This movie makes me feel like I'm 10 years old again and seeing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie for the first time.
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People's shit gets wrecked in this movie.
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If you don't like this movie then you don't like fun.
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dumbest plot ever. epic action. :>
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Put your pads on.
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Story and acting are bare bones but the fight choreography is very good and the movie is mostly fight scenes, so worth a look, if you're into that (I am). Also, the characters have cool names, like: Pom, Pod, Lerm and Mr. Snead.
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Most of the first 30 minutes is unwatchably bad.
After that, it's action glory.
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Boy, is this not an intellectually stimulating film. The plot, characters and humor are not stellar. But, if you want to see a buttload of action and crazy people doing a whole lot of insane things to the point that you wonder how many people legit got injured during the making of this movie, then you should love this gonzo martial arts film.
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Thin on plot, fat on kicks to the face.
Entertaining enough but not near as good as other recent thai martial arts films -
Mala historia, buenas coreografía.
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I'm sorry, I happen to love shitty Thai action movies but this is too severely balls. Before you waste your time on this make sure you've seen some 5 star shitty Thai movies:Chocolate, Ong Bak & Tom Yum Gong would be good starts.
The martial arts is trailing modern Asian cinema and the stunt work is nothing special. For MA nerds the only real notable feature is people actually trained in Tae Kwon Do doing some cool stuff instead of 'Thai destroying bones' action.
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This movie breaks my rating scale I had been using on here. Yes there are artistic movies that I would rate lower than this and I like artsy stuff at times. The action in this movie is worlds above and beyond pretty much everything I have seen up to this point, and yes I've seen some Tony Jaa flicks. Sure the plot is throw away but I oddly enough wound up liking the protagonists in the end simply for their facial expressions. I would have enjoyed the antagonists meeting their demise quite a bit harder and the opening was a bit too long. But those are minor criticisms. Simply put: This movie makes me feel like I'm 10 years old again and seeing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie for the first time.
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One of the most porn-like movies I've seen. Bad production values, terrible acting, and laughable story; all you're really watching it for is the, ahem, "body action." There are several great fights and crazy stunts in this, but there are also a lot of 'air punches,' the large cast seems to be wildly divergent in their martial arts abilities.
If the movie had focused more on the main lead, and had more brutality (it seems like the A-Team TV show with no one dying until suddenly the last 10 minutes when the guns come out), it could've earned some good cult cred. As-is, all it really made me want to do was watch The Raid again.