Some of us here at Movie Buzzers are HUGE Tony Jaa fans, and it honestly feels like forever since he was in a movie. In a way, it kind of has been — his last film was 2011’s Ong Bak 3, but both that movie and 2009’s Ong Bak 2 were lighter on the martial arts action than one expects. That means the last really kick ass Tony Jaa movie was 2005’s The Protector. So I’m happy to see that not only has Jaa returned to movies with a vengeance, but via Collider we finally have our first look at the U.S. poster for The Protector 2 (Tom Yum Goong 2).
Though the 3D film has already been released in several Asian countries after opening in Jaa’s native Thailand this past October, Americans will get a chance to see it in May. Along with Jaa, the movie stars RZA, Mum Jokmok, Marrese Crump, Jija Yanin Wismitanan, Ratha Pho-ngam, Kazu Patric Tang, Kalp Hongratanaporn and David Ismalone. Check out the poster and the movie’s synopsis below.
Boss Suchart is the influential owner of a major elephant camp. When he was murdered in his own home – the killer delivered three fatal blows on his body – all evidence points to KHAM (Tony Jaa), who was present at the crime scene and was seen with the victim the moment before he died. Kham is forced to run as the police launches a pursuit. Meanwhile, the twin nieces of Boss Suchart (Jija Yanin Wismitanan and Teerada Kittisiriprasert) are out for revenge. But luck is on Kham’s side when he runs into Sergeant MARK (Mum Jokmok), an Interpol agent sent to Thailand on a secret mission.
As Kham is hunted by several parties, he’s also desperately searching for KHON, his elephant, whose disappearance is involved with Boss Suchart’s death. In another twist, Kham is drawn into an underground fighting ring run by LC (RZA), a crime lord who’s obsessed with collecting top-class martial artists from around the world. LC’s fighters are branded only by numbers, such as the lethal, beautiful TWENTY (Ratha Pho-ngam) and the diabolical NO.2 (Marrese Crump). These fighters are ordered to defeat and capture Kham for a special mission that LC has in mind.
A sequel of the global smash-hit “Tom Yam Goong” (or “The Protector”), TYG2-3D is an extreme fight movie, an endlessly intense, nerve-racking film full of fists, elbows, kicks and daredevil stunt scenes and amazingly choreographed fighting moves that will pump hot blood through the body of all action fans. All in the in-your-face 3D spectacle!
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