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Okay. That just looks like a whole smack of stupid fun! Niiiice.

Nobody does martial arts better than Luc Besson?? Sorry, I disagree, Besson has done nothing but rip off all the best Asian martial arts directors who have been directing and producing the sort of quality movies and styles westeners did not see until The Matrix, which also was rubbish as the fights do not use real martial artists, credits to Reeves for learning the routine, but if you where trained for two months in the same sequence of moves, you would be just as good. Besson has now decided to 're edit' Ong Bak, why? To see the original cut is to see the movie as it was meant to be, raw and brutal martial arts, not slo mo overkill of Americanised movies. Even Shaolin Soccer had over 30 mins cut for its American release, Americans think they know better, they dont. Rather than show something orginal they want to put it in a McDonalds happy meal box and make it just like everything else. Again, though, Luc Besson a great martial arts director??Please.

Hey, I said nothing about Besson being the best martial arts director out there, I said nobody balances cinematic style with martial arts better than he does. There are LOTS of better straight martial arts diretors out there, but most of them shoot fairly average looking film. Besson gets good, high energy martial arts sequences with a lot of high end martial artists - the stars of this film, in particular, are incredibly skilled - while also getting fantastic looking film.

As for the re-edit of Ong Bak, from what I hear there's not a single frame of the fight sequences touched. Where there has been trimming it's been in the side stories - which needed a healthy trim, in my opinion. Other than removing some of those things to increase the focus on the action all Besson has done is remaster the video to up the quality a bit and re-do the soundtrack. And he did it all with the direct input of the film's director. This is not even remotely a repeat of the Shaolin Soccer fiasco.