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Played by Chattapong Pantana-Angkul. It’s completely ridiculous that such a wonder drug would exist (maybe it’s the same venom that Bane uses), but it’s a well-established cheesy action movie trope– much like how in older dramas, blind folks were always one “big operation” away from regaining their sight. Before the match he’s seen injecting himself with a needleful of an unidentified substance that apparently makes him stronger or more pain-resistant or something.
He could be faking the struggle and still taking a dive, but either way, between the drugs and the maybe-faking, Ting doesn’t really put a dent in his villainous opponent, and he definitely takes a brutal beating himself.Saming first invites Ting to take several shots at him, and Ting delivers several strong-looking punches & kicks that Saming just shrugs off. Komtuan asserts later that Ting deliberately threw the fight, though it looks like he’s struggling mightily here regardless. Or even once at normal speed.The Fight: Almost completely one-sided.
And fortunately it’s smart enough enough to get its ugly business over with quickly.It is not, despite what this picture would imply, a poorly-attended daytime rave.Ting Fights: A handful of Komtuan’s goons. It serves mainly as a bit of darkening plot material, giving the hero a major stumble and obstacle before he is able to return triumphantly. That’s about the end of things.One-sided fights are rarely all that interesting, but this one gains some extra points just for its sheer brutality and Saming’s unrestrained craziness. He then pursues AGAIN and kicks the fallen Ting in the chest for good measure. He does a running knee so hard that it knocks the hero out of the ring and onto the announcers’ table.
A few goons stay inside to finish the job while a few others wait outside. Don’t bad guys know you ALWAYS stay around to make sure the hero gets finished off? It’s like they don’t even watch movies.The Fight: Ting manages to turn things around pretty well. Then he has his thugs hold the two at gunpoint and prepare to kill them while he leaves, for some reason. Of course, he reneges on the deal, and presents them with an empty box.
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Their shots end up striking a drum full of oil and creating a significant explosion. He cancels out the gun advantage of one thug, who was waiting in the driver’s seat side of a truck, by jumping so hard at the truck’s open door that the force of it closing knocks him all the way through to the other side.At least two more guys nearby have guns, though, so Ting avoids them by hiding amongst a bunch of wreckage off to the side. The villains eventually figure out that all the noise they hear in the building isn’t good (their biggest hint is one of their buddies get kicked through the door), but when they check the room, Ting has apparently slipped out the window. At one point Ting punches a guy so hard that his face smacks hilariously against a wooden table.The real fun starts when they get outside. With some assistance from Humlae, they soon take out all the goons inside.
Naturally, Ting just immediately adapts and fights with two sticks– escrima– for a while.Then he trades that for one of his foes’ dropped machetes, but apparently his inner pacifism takes over and he discards that as well. He smacks them around with the improvised staff for a while, but eventually it gets hit hard enough to break in half. For some reason almost all of them are armed with machetes, odd implements for a digging crew.The Fight: The hero is immediately ambushed by the half dozen or so machete-wielding fools, and he soon grabs a long pole– between the pole’s appearance and the odd sounds it makes when struck, it’s hard to tell if it’s wooden or metal or what– and evens the odds. While, I’ll remind you, HIS LEGS ARE ON FIRE.Then not far into the cave, he runs into some tougher resistance.
Some cracks are starting to show in the choreography, namely when you can see a few instances of stuntmen moving their bodies into position to receive the simulated blows (the fact that Prinkaew keeps switching to slow motion makes it even more apparent).Still, it’s an ambitious & fun scene, and nobody’s perfect. And since the alley chase doesn’t really count, this is the first time in the movie Ting has taken on such a large amount of people in close quarters at once. And quite a variety of weapons at that: swords against unarmed, staff against swords, escrima against swords, sword against sword, tonfa against sword. The last chump is apparently the smartest, since he just up & runs away.Once again Prinkaew and Jaa have changed up things a bit, this time by showcasing a weapons-heavy fight. Tonfa are almost tailor-made for Muay Thai’s elbow-heavy style, so the rest of this particular ass-beating is like Christmas for Ting.That pretty much finishes up this batch, as well as a few late-comers.
Anyway, he goes deeper into the cave and discovers Komtuan and Saming high up on some scaffolding, waiting as their crew saws through the neck of an enormous Buddha statue. Apparently every fight for him is like a whole new video game is for Samus Aran. He’s a man on a mission, and this mission is just getting started.After this, Ting makes the inexplicable decision not to take ANY of the weapons he’d been using into the next room.
And at least one of them is not a native Thai but a white guy, so points to the villain for diversity, I suppose.The Fight: It’s the penultimate battle and the last real melee brawl of the film, so it pulls out all the stops. Some of them are even wearing flak vests, for some unknown reason. But first the hero has to get through….Ting Fights: Another half-dozen or so of the gangster’s thugs.
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The last baddie, who has a glass eye (or maybe it’s just weird-looking), gets ahold of a long, serrated saw and hurts Ting pretty bad with it, first whipping him across the face and back with the flat end, then charging at him with the blade out. Real-life physical endurance is of course out the door before we started, but Ting’s even pushing past the point of action movie physical endurance.Our tiring hero gets it worst of all just after he saves Humlae from being hung to death the slow way. Sometimes it’s because he’s distracted with one of the other five combatants, but a lot of times he’s simply not ready– the guy’s worn down like nobody’s business. Some particularly memorable tricks involve Ting laying out two thugs in quick succession with a continuous series of spinning jump kicks, or the time one baddie ducks under a jump kick so Ting just lashes out with his other leg while still airborne.It really does take a while for Ting to take all these guys out, though, and you can see him taking a few wallops himself.
Fortunately, when Ting recovers, he pays the guy back by breaking his leg in an even more painful-looking way. The eye-guy soon gets the best of the comic relief, though, and breaks his arm in a very painful-looking way.
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