The Protector (2005)
Kham's life is turned upside down when an international mafia syndicate, based in Australia, captures his two beloved elephants and smuggles them thousands of kilometers away to Sydney. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take down the gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.
23 November 1977, San Jose, California, USA
15 April 1985, Thailand
21 August 1969, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
1973, Germany
1974, Binh Duong, Vietnam
30 April 1974, Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Netherlands
April 25, 2011
Truly, the best martial arts film about elephants yet made.March 20, 2009
You have to wonder why they even bothered with the subtitles. It's not like they make much difference.December 15, 2006
Exactly like an elephant, mostly slow and lumbering -- but with great menacing charges of excitement.August 11, 2007
If you like you martial arts action tough, gritty and fast, Tony Jaa is your artist, as he proved on his debut with Ong Bak (2003). This is Muay Thai, a form of aggressive martial arts that makes the others look tame.September 23, 2006
It's silly, at times laughable, sure, but Jaa has a reckless, bone-cracking grace that transcends the film's triviality. For fight fans, he's worth the price of admission.December 15, 2006
Pretty tough to sit through.September 08, 2006
When you've got a male lead who can break heads like Tony Jaa, a little bit of story line goes a long way.September 23, 2006
Jaa's ingratiatingly ridiculous Protector delivers a steady stream of cheap B-movie thrills, plus two positive messages for young people: Be nice to animals, and when in doubt, always aim for the tendons.April 22, 2009
In the realm of fresh martial arts movie stars, no one holds a candle to Tony Jaa.August 03, 2007
If a video game allowed you to do what Tony Jaa does, it would be the bestselling video game in history.January 13, 2009
Bone-crunching action triumphs over story and, uh, character development.August 16, 2007
a no-brainer, but also an extravaganza of inventive, visually stunning brutality (by the trunkload).