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 1.5/5 Stars •
Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
08/04/23
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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 3/5 Stars •
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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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 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/23/23
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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 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/22/23
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This movie had more comedy, and not as epic as the first. But that motorcycle chase scene though.
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/23/23
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Back in 2003, Tony Jaa and company proved that lightning can indeed strike twice. With both hits of Ong-Bak (2003) and The Protector (2005) taking audiences by storm, Tony Jaa was labeled the new "Jackie Chan", due to his hard hitting fight scenes and gritty stunt work. But this time around, the filmmakers are missing one fatal flaw, action choreographer Panna Rittikrai. He seems to be the only person from the original crew missing, and the result is a complete and utter mess.
The movie tries to recreate the stunts from the original, featuring a shoddy CGI filled motorbike chase that runs on for too long. Then the movie actually has one semi-decent scene, No. 2 (Marrese Crump) and Tony Jaa face off in a shipping yard. The movie never gets to its full momentum, because of the addition of Jeeja Yanin. She was excellent in Chocolate (2008), but she feels superfluous and useless in this movie. She has to avenge her thief of an uncle and twin sister, but in the film she only has a weird taser, acupuncture needles, and subpar fighting skills. Jeeja spends the entire movie getting smacked around by lesser goons, but can somehow take on No. 2 when the plot calls for it. You could have taken her character out of the movie and it wouldn't change anything, so Jeeja Yanin is sorely wasted in this film and should have been a villain.
As for RZA, he is about as slow as a turtle in his fight scenes and he might as well be fighting in slow motion. After No. 2 is taken care of, Tony Jaa's character has to fight RZA, who is utterly unconvincing as a martial artist. Wearing a suit and punching Jaa through walls, his punches look so slow and he comes off as more camp than menacing. No. 2 (Marrese Crump) should have played the villain, as he had a better screen presence.
Its almost as if the filmmakers made a checklist of what people like about Tony Jaa and Thai cinema, and decided to do the exact opposite. Fight scenes are quick cut edited, the bad CGI is all over the place (like the literal firefight), and the main villain was sorely miscast. All of these things could be forgiven if the movie had some sweet fight scenes, but the movie doesn't even get that right. Despite the little spar between Jaa and No. 2, the movie has nothing else to offer, except a cheesy and laughable plot.
The Protector 2 shows the fallacy not pushing yourself to higher standards. Its rumored that Jaa quit the movie industry and became a monk to run out his 10 year film contract, but then on his return he came back to the same people and made this film. Tony Jaa is more capable of this, and this is why The Protector 2 is such a sore disappointment.
Rated 0.5/5 Stars •
Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/05/23
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