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The Protector 2

R Released May 2, 2014 1h 44m Action List
18% Tomatometer 22 Reviews 31% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings
Martial artist Kham (Tony Jaa) must rescue his beloved elephant from poachers and thwart a plot to start a war. Read More Read Less
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Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture If you thought the higher profile might have prompted Jaa to up his game, prepare to be disappointed. May 2, 2014 Full Review Glenn Kenny RogerEbert.com Think about how bad the acting and plotting have to be in order to distill the impact of a Tony Jaa battle scene. If you know a little about Tony Jaa, that's kind of hard to imagine. I know. But trust me. Or don't. Rated: 1.5/4 May 2, 2014 Full Review Daniel M. Gold New York Times Again with the elephant? May 1, 2014 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins The story is still wildly juvenile, but the BMX assassins are back, along with the insanely destructive knee lunges and elbow strikes and lengthy martial arts face-offs. Rated: 1/10 Dec 4, 2020 Full Review Andrew Heskins easternKicks.com Highly enjoyable, Tony Jaa's return could become a cult classic - but for all the wrong reasons... Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 24, 2020 Full Review Stephen Danay Under the Radar Do yourself a favor and stick with the original. Rated: 1.5/10 Aug 15, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Carlos T Minha opinião: "O Protetor 1" Imagine uma OBRA DE ARTE, COM CERTEZA UM DOS MELHORES FILMES DE ARTES MARCIAIS QUE ASSISTI. Mas este 2º filme que é continuação do 1º, deixou muito a desejar, muito mesmo. São 2 universos totalmente diferente. Este filme já peca com sua estoria e enredo. Fracos de mais. Oque faz o papel de vilão, ele tenta parecer mal, mas é fraco. O Mark que fez um papel importante no 1º, aqui não tem peso no filme. A parte com maior emoção foi a perseguição com as lambretas. Uma pena este filme. Roteiro e enredo fraquíssimo. Vale apena assistir? Não. Como pode do céu ao inferno. Nota: 3 Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/04/23 Full Review Audience Member This second installment to one of my favorite martial arts movie, was not that good, and I felt bad about it. The reason why is because I really loved the first onr to die for, and for me seeing the trailer and then watching the movie after gave me some some disappointment. I was really looking forward to this second installment. Yes it had its good fighting scenes no doubt on that , but it didn't have the same vibe as the first one. As that being said for some good fighting scenes and some new villans for Tony Jaa , but not being enough to impress me, like the first one, This second installment was just ok, I really wanted to like this movie, So for that I give " The Protector 2 " a solid C. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The Protector is one of my favorite Martial Arts films, and when Tony Jaa disappeared for years, only to reappear with this bloated mess of a movie, I was very disappointed. Oh, much of the fighting is of high quality, and there is actually even more of it than before, but the movie just feels too long, too thin and oddly frustrating. One reason for this is that there's one central muscle-villain that is literally treated like The Terminator (no matter how hard you beat him down, he's up again 30 seconds later), and in order to generate tension, the baddies will get plenty of cheap-shots on Tony Jaa (and his allies) when the baddies themselves aren't nearly on par with them. Jeeja Yanin has a surprising amount of screentime considering that her part in the movie literally amounts to nothing; truly, she loses every fight and doesn't end up accomplishing something that others were unable, forcing me to believe that she was added to the movie during one of its many times when Production halted simply because she herself is awesome. The movie also has an odd fascination with adding CGI to this movie's fight-scenes from time to time - Honestly it's hardly as bad as you might think from such a low-budget movie industry, but it just comes off as odd for a movie that follows-up a movie that took all efforts to feel as real and lifelike as possible. And to top it all off, it's almost 2 hours long, which is criminal when all of the non-action bits are this badly done. Worth watching once if you're into Martial-Arts movies, but you'll likely only want to see it the once. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review jonfreakin j this was bad, real bad. tony greenscreened alot of stuff and rza was in it...god forgive them Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/20/17 Full Review Audience Member Jaa is not the same person here as in in his original movies. The action scenes are poorly executed, the CGI is laughable, the characters are boring ... It really has nothing going for it. Sorry Tony! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie had more comedy, and not as epic as the first. But that motorcycle chase scene though. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Martial artist Kham (Tony Jaa) must rescue his beloved elephant from poachers and thwart a plot to start a war.
Director
Prachya Pinkaew, Panna Rittikrai
Screenwriter
Eakasit Thairaat, Eakasit Thairaat
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
Baa-Ram-Ewe, Sahamongkol Film International
Rating
R (Violence|Language)
Genre
Action
Original Language
Thai
Release Date (Theaters)
May 2, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 4, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.3K
Runtime
1h 44m
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