Elephant White is the English language debut of Prachya Pinkaew, but if you were hoping for another ass -
kicking martial arts film starring Tony Jaa or JeeJa Yanin, you might want to lower your expectations.
Not exact matches
The side splits which many people still associate with Van Dam because of his insistence in showing it in all his early
films is an iconic demonstration of flexibility and the one stretch that everybody associates with
martial arts and the ability to
kick high.
► Throughout the
film, we see
martial arts fights with acrobatics, punches and
kicks, but no blood; a variety of weapons is used that includes daggers, metal darts, flaming arrows, spears, moon - knives (swords), wooden staves, axes, hooks, sledgehammers and a mace.
For every movie featuring an Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Alice or Katniss Everdeen, Asian
film industries managed to produce several dozen more entertaining, hard - hitting action flicks featuring strong female characters portrayed by butt -
kicking heroines, many of them real - life
martial arts champions or physically gifted dancers or performers.
Bloodsport, a
martial arts movie dubiously based on a «true story,»
kicked off Jean - Claude Van Damme's damn awesome movie career, leading to many more
films where the Muscles from Brussels would smile, strut, and splits his way through
martial arts tournaments and always get the girl.
THE BODYGUARD China — Dir: Yue Song The new master of the Iron
Kick clan sets out in search of a lost friend, earns a job protecting a rich man's daughter, and clashes with a criminal gang in one of the most exciting and auspicious
martial arts films in years!
Well, the sixty - something iconic
martial arts wonder Jackie Chan certainly has not entirely lost his cinematic A-game when it comes to his trademark kinetic - style
kicks and punches that worldwide movie audiences have come to embrace in the legendary performer's adventurous chop - socky
film career.
«The Raid 2»: Does for action and
martial arts movies what «Singin» in the Rain» did for musicals, reminding you of everything you love about the genre while (literally)
kicking things up a notch and raising the bar for other
films to follow.