Our Most Underrated Action Star Returns With Brutal Tale of Revenge in New Thriller

One of the vital underrated worldwide motion and martial arts stars of all time returns with a brand new, no-nonsense motion thriller. Titled Placing Rescue, the motion outing sees Ong Bak and Livid 7 star Tony Jaa display his distinctive Muay Thai expertise as soon as once more on this story of revenge. Jaa, a three-time Muay Thai champion, has already confirmed that his martial arts prowess usually ends in visible poetry (bloody and brutal visible poetry, in fact) together with his expertise now all set for the large display after Placing Distance was picked up for distribution in North America by Properly Go USA.

You possibly can try the official synopsis for Placing Rescue beneath, which teases the peerlessly easy plot that ought to enable for all method of motion.

“Directed by Cheng Siyi, the motion revenge film follows An Bai (Jaa), a veteran Muay Thai knowledgeable who goes on a take-no-prisoners mission of revenge after his spouse and daughter are brutally murdered by mysterious forces. The movie co-stars Chinese language actors Hong Junjia and Shi Yanneng.”

Placing Rescue is already obtainable to stream on the Chinese language platform, Youku (you may try a clip right here courtesy of X/Twitter consumer @DerekBrocks), with Properly Go USA eyeing a theatrical launch for the film in america. The motion outing is the primary Youku undertaking to get a theatrical launch within the U.S., and comes as a part of the streamer’s plan to increase into each theaters and worldwide markets. Definitely, a revenge story fronted by Tony Jaa is the way in which to do it.

Tony Jaa Is an Motion & Martial Arts Icon

Tony Jaa, 48, first broke into the motion film scene with Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior again in 2003. The film finds Jaa starring as a extremely expert fighter from an impoverished village in Thailand who’s tasked with retrieving a treasured statue of Buddha after it’s stolen. Heading to Bangkok, Jaa is shortly drawn into the violent prison underworld…a world that has no concept how effectively this unassuming younger man can wield his fists, toes, elbows, and knees.

Proving himself to be nothing lower than a residing, respiratory weapon, Jaa is ready to full each acrobatic and preventing feats that usually border on the inconceivable. The actor and martial artist has since starred within the likes of The Protector (Tom-Yum-Goong), Ong Again 2 and three (which take issues again to fifteenth century Thailand), Pores and skin Commerce with Dolph Lundgren, the hit motion sequel Livid 7, XXX: Return of Xander Cage, Grasp Z: Ip Man Legacy, Monster Hunter, Triple Risk, Expend4bles, and extra.

Nonetheless, whereas Tony Jaa has confirmed repeatedly his on-screen charisma and skill to impress and shock motion followers, he has arguably by no means reached the heights he might have. Properly, the producers behind Placing Rescue are actually hoping to alter that, with THR revealing that they’re “selling the movie as Jaa’s return to the high-octane Muay Thai struggle cinema custom that made him well-known.”