Kerd ma lui

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428725/
a.k.a. Born to fight.

Oh boy oh boy. Where do I even start with reviewing this?
The brutality is insane. Men are being blown to pieces by a bazooka, arms are blown of by gunshots, men pick up wodden sticks from a fireplace and fight with the sticks as they still glows, a young girl is trown trough the air like…













And let´s Not forget the chicken race between a bike and a truck.

Most western action movies (read american) has 1 Big action sequence - like a fight that are coordinated and somehow are ment to be the everlasting memory from the movie. In kerd ma lui however, the stuntscenes are so many that I seriously lost count after a while. I had to rewind soome scenes to understand if I just saw what I think I did in the first place.
This is exactly how actionmovies should be like, no logic is necessary here, don´t even think about it.
Kerd ma lui is a wet dream for everyone who loves crazy outrageous stunts, stunts that actually are Dangerous to do.

Crazy stunts



Don´t get me wrong, there are different ways of looking at action and people may argue what real action is. For some it is explosions, scene with weapons, or as in the asian way - use your body as a weapon, or better yet - your body is a weapon.
However, this has also a lot of explosions and guns, blood and emotions as you can handle.

All the top actors are actually former sport stars. Imagine an hollywood movie having real life sport stars as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tyson Gay, Marion Jones - or whatever the more active big time sportstars are - acting like themself and doing all their stunts, and I ain´t talking about stunts as in ”jumping from a stair to the floor” - you have seen the trailer... You do understand how big these are. On the double disc dvd, they even mention and thanks the us audience for the fine reviews/ the screening of Kerd ma lui in the states. It is very sincere, but I think the rest of the world instead should send their huge gratitude for the makers of this classic.

Ok, after that, I have to talk a bit about the actual movie itself.
A new police, Daew, joins up with his sister Nui (Kessarin Ektawatkul) and other athlets in a goodwill mission. They visits an village not far from Bangkok.
Deaw (Dan Chupong) tries to cope with his loss of a partner during an awasome opening sequence to this movie.
While at the village we see how happy the villagers are by recieving gifts from these topclass athletics, soon though some terrorist start shooting and butchering everyone, and I do mean everyone. No one, at first sight, seems to be spared, children as well as elders are killed.
Deaw and his friends most find a way to strike back - and so they do.

Kerd ma lui plays a lot on nationalism/patriotism feelings, wich I personally don´t like at all - normally anyway. But in this it works.
All the sportsmen and women get a chance to shine and use their special skill while fighting back against the terrorists.
They are gymnasts, boxers, rugbyplayers, Tae kwon do, Thai box junior champs (Sasisa Jindamanee) was infact 10 years if even that ”old” when recording this movie.

Sasisa Jindamanee



And if you think that just some do the actual kick ass beating, then you are all wrong.







From the youngest to the oldest, they all fight, with a passion and a pride that I actually to be honest never seen before in a movie.





















Kerd ma lui also copies the insane ”truck trough a neighbourhood scene” from Jackie Chans Ging chat goo si a.k.a. policy story http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089374/
But apart from that, this is an original movie, beside the part that Kerd ma lui is actually a remake, wich I didn´t know of to be honest.

The scene where Deaw shoots a lot of badguys is shot as a first person shoter game.













All that is needed to say about Kerd ma lui is in all honestly the following; Buy it!

















Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QmXbolzj4g

Trivia.
The production company is Baa-Ram-Ewe, they have produced movies such as Tony Jaa´s masterpiece Ong-Bak. Also Sumtum who stares Sasisa Jindamanee and Kessarin Ektawatkul, two of the stars from Kerd ma lui.

Deaw ( Dan Chupong) has worked with Tony Jaa in Ong-Bak.

Kessarin Ektawatkul is a former Junior national Tae kwon do champion.

Sasisa Jindamanee is a national Junior Thai kick boxing champion.














There are no string/wires used in any of the stunts.

And to all Thai people around the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPa28BwEuQo

Hope your country will have piece and prosper.
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