I love this movie. Rockets, rockets, rockets, rockets. Sure the acting isn't all that great, the story is needlessly convoluted, and Muay Thai is a poor choice for a martial arts epic, but the man has turned rocketry into a martial art. He rides them, powers carts with them, launches a fusillade of them at his enemies. You want rockets? We got 'em.
The absurdity of the story only adds to the charm. A tractor salesman is tired of the competition from water buffalo, so he hires bandits to take out the buffalo traders. The most successful trader is a magician, so the entrepeneur teams up with a rival magician to defeat him. In the course of this he crosses paths with Jone Bang Fai, a legendary warrior who is looking for the tattooed cattle thief who killed his parents and left him to be raised by Rocket Monks.
Apparently this movie tanked in Thailand; the acting and humor turned off most theater-goers, and the endless knee-drops turned off the rest. It was a crowd pleaser at NYAFF, though, and sure to be entertaining if you only watch it for the rockets.
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Khon fai bin (IMDB)
Wince : [***__]
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [*____]
Gape : [***__]
Beerequisite : [*****]
Pornability : [_____]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [**___]
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