Tony Jaa and director Prachya Pinkaew, who made the memorable Ong-Bak together, return with a similar tale.

Once again, our hero is forced to leave his home and make his way to alien territory to retrieve something stolen from him, amid much light-footed kung-fu and bone-breaking sound effects. Last time, it was the head of a sacred statue that needed to be recovered. This time, more interestingly, it is a couple of elephants, kidnapped and taken to Australia from Thailand by organised crime.

The opening scenes in Thailand are idyllic and beautifully photographed - a child carried along on an elephant's tusks sticks in the mind - but once the film switches abruptly to Australia, the Jackie Chan-style culture clash doesn't provide much comedy to break up the action scenes.

These are expertly choreographed - one of them is shot in one take and lasts four minutes - but get awfully samey, especially as Jaa tends to throw a very high proportion of baddies through windows and seems too invincible to ever be in much danger, despite the traditionally fearsome odds.

And hopes that the pachyderms might team up to stomp villainous butt prove illusory (Ong-Bak was the action equivalent of Dogme, permitting no wires or computers and Warrior King follows suit). Pinkaew throws in a murderous ladyboy and a gang of thugs and it turns into a police procedural, but after a while it settles for being a series of set-pieces loosely strung around an optional plot. It zips by pleasantly enough, though.