Peter Bradshaw 

Born to Fight

Peter Bradshaw: A martial-arts action movie from Thailand ... gobsmacking stunts.
  
  

Born To Fight
Real stunts ... Born to Fight Photograph: Public domain

Is there a professional association of Hollywood stuntmen? If so, they can watch this movie and eat their hearts out: a martial-arts action movie from Thailand which, frankly, shows that as far as stunt work is concerned, it's the Thais who are making the running, the jumping, the flying through the air and the landing heavily on the ground.

There really are some gobsmacking stunts here, happening for real: no digital effects, no wires, no blue screens. There is a sequence showing a man jumping from one speeding truck to another, and then falling on to the roadside which has to be seen to be believed.

Writer-director Panna Rittikrai delivers quite a thrill ride and his stunt crew have, to use some obscure film theory jargon, cojones three feet in diameter.

 

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