Dynamite Warrior ฅนไฟบิน by Chalerm Wongpim (2006)
18 September 2007This is an over the top wire fu action spectacular, with lead, Dan Chupong warting a hat reminiscent of Indiana Jones, and it really makes me yearn for the good old days in Hong Kong when they too used to make ridiculous action spectaculars like this. Unfortunately those days are over, but luckily it seems Thailand is taking up the slack, because this film is about as fun as can be, over the top ridiculous fun, and a must see for all kung fu fans.
Dan Chupong plays Jone Bang Fai “The Fireball Bandit” a Robin Hood in 1890’s Siam who uses giant fireworks, and his martial arts to attack cattle traders and theives and takes their buffalo and gives them to poor villages, and never kills anyone. He is legendary, but really he is searching for the cattle thief with a dragon tattoo on his chest who killed his parents. Meanwhile an evil local nobleman Lord Waeng (Phutiphong Sriwat) is selling mechanical tractors, and since they are not selling well, he helps a convict called The Thief (Somdet Kaewleu) whose sole motivation seems to be eating, and who carries 2 huge buffalo harnesses as weapons, to go around and steal all the water buffalo so he can sell them to a slaughter house and sell his tractors. The Thief ends up fighting a cattle trader with supernatural martial arts powers and a dragon tattoo named Nai Hoi Sing (Samart Payakaroon). This gets Jone Bang Fai’s attention and he believes Sing is his parent’s killer.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
Lord Waeng gets the help of a cursed man, the Black Wizard (Panna Rittikrai) who was cursed by Sing, and tricks Jone Bang Fai into helping them. The Black Wizard has a beautiful daughter named Sao (Kanyaphak Suwankut) and if they use her virginal menstrual blood, since she has a more powerful astrological sign than Sing. Jone Bang Fai and Sao like each other right away, and she helps him prepare his missiles with her blood, and he heads off to fight Sing.
Sing is quickly hurt, and the BLack Wizard and Lord Waeng pop out, and it turns out that the Black Wizard has the same tattoo as Sing and in fact killed Jone Bang Fai’s parrents. It then turns out that Sao is not his daughter, but he in fact killed her parents, and took her specifically so she could be used to stop Sing who cursed him so he cannot go into sunlight. Now they move in with Waeng, and he plans on raping Sao who will then no longer be able to give Sing back his powers, but of course Jone Bang Fai shows up.
The Black Wizard leaves his body and jointly takes over Lord Waeng’s body to fight. SIng is given his powers back, but is too weak, so he cuts the charms in his chest out and has Sao give them to Jone Bang Fai, so he can fight him evenly, and of course they defeat the evil duo, and blow them up in a tractor, and Jone Bang Fai and Sao leave together, though Sing was killed.
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An enjoyable silly wife fu film. Really a must see!!!