Let's be realistic.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

As other reviewer explained, this has to be reviewed not as a stand alone movie, yes as a third one into a trilogy. Not better way to end the ONG BAK trilogy, Tai survived a terrible torture, he died and came to life just for one reason, complete the circle. He trained his body to recover it and above all, his mind and way of fighting. I agree that this has less action sequences as previous films, but the fighting is beautiful and as I said, the reason is to complete the circle. He must learn the dancing style and finally understand that he is the weapon, he doesn't need weapons. The movie is well done and the action is solid. I understand the deception of many reviewers, but this movie was the only way to end the trilogy. Excellent movie.

In my opinion, the first Ong Bak film had more of a cutting edge thrill ride filled with diverse fight scenes. The use of weponary was a lot more enforced and I could feel the connection between man and weapon in that film. Ong Bak 3 is really good however, the time Tien spends healing himself lingers on for to long for my liking. It felt like a really detailed and in depth process, the director may have gone for this look but didn't appeal to me personally. The fight scene at the end was absolutely glorious, you clearly see how Tien has taking into account his dancing talents and used them to use advantage, I don't like the fact that Tien sort of turned back time after fighting many foes in the courtyard, I think it would have been could if there was less guards and if he had hurt them all. It sort breaches the supernatural as well which I was a bit edgy on when Tien makes the soldiers go all weird. All in all, the film was amazing, I LOVED it, definitely recommend it :)

I registered onto IMDb just so I can tell you that this is the worst martial arts movie I've ever seen. I saw and enjoyed both the other movies. I had low expectations for this one, and they weren't met. In fact, the movie made me angry. The story seems to have been written by a random word generator - it involves nonsensical curses, a king who has unintentionally funny hallucinations, a crow woman who sounds like a female transformer, and things that happen that didn't really happen. I tried to understand what was going on, and I did not succeed.There's also scenes of graphic violence and torture that is a lot more mean spirited than what we've seen in Tony Jaa's other movies. This isn't fun, and it's not like the movie has any deeper meaning or interesting characters to justify it. Do we really need to see an uninterrupted shot of a person's throat being slit open and blood spewing out? How about two? The fight scenes? There's only one or two long ones, late in the movie, and that's when I perked up. Unfortunately, they're a disappointment. They're obviously sped up and sometimes there are wires involved. The moves Jaa does are the same ones he does in all his movies, except not as good and sometimes obviously choreographed. As expected, everyone attacks one at a time, but this time you can see them standing in the background waiting their turn. Tony Jaa's gotta make some better choices - the guys career has been going downhill after his first movie. The guy's got talent but it's being completely wasted.

Ong Bak 3 is the worst out of them all.How did Tony Jaa go from a brilliant Ong Bak 1 to two terrible sequels? time and time again we are bombarded with slow-mo scenes and it gets old fast.The fighting is pretty non-existent bar a few so so scenes which aren't at all that great.He has fake looking long hair and a beard which just looks stupid.Humlae is some retarded doofus who says silly things for the 'comedic' effect but its just dumb.The end fight scene was just pathetic.....Tien beat the guy like it was a walk in the park. I wanted action, real conflict, for Tien to struggle to win and fight to the near-death.All I got was a half-arsed film with sentimental crap and....oh forget it.It's miles away from the brilliance of Ong Bak 1.