Yayaying rhatha phongam and tony jaa fight

Principal cast and crew return eight years later for this action-packed sequel which never quite settles into a steady groove and becomes overly reliant on distracting camera trickery. The gimmicks seem unnecessary for a film featuring two of Thailand’s best martial arts actors: Tony Jaa and Jeeja Yanin, supervised by fighting legend Panna Rittikrai and director Prachya Pinkaew, who last worked with Jaa on the prolific failure of the Ong-Bak prequels. The film is bolstered by great personalities, but every set-piece descends into convoluted chaos, and seemingly good ideas are made to look ghastly in post-production. A rooftop bike chase starts in stunt-filled glory before culminating in a dodgy CGI train jump and a horribly artificial gas explosion. There is a fake firewall sequence in which combatants duel with flaming feet, and one of the many encounters with Marrese Crump involves electric sparks emanating from an active train-line – none of which looks remotely con

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