Dan Chupong, Nappon Gomarachun, Piyapong Piew-on

When a remote Thai village is overrun by terrorists armed with a nuclear missile, an elite undercover operative leads the most unique fighting force ever assembled in a heroic bid to save their nati...( read more  read more... )on.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Panna Rittikrai

Release Date: December 31, 2004

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DVD Release Date: May 15, 2007

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  • October 26, 2007
    What do you want from a foreign language action movie? Plot? Character development? Life changing ideas on the duality of man? Up to you, but generally the answer might be NO. Of course here we get none of that, but the action sequences, shootouts, stunts and explosions are great...( read more)!!! If you can take it for what it is (and don't mind subtitles) then you might tolerate it, but anyone with any respect for common sense will be turned off quickly, as was I.
  • October 12, 2007
    Those crazy thai stuntmen are trying to kill themselves once more in this cheesy but fun action flick. The story is absurd even for MA flicks standards, and Dan Chupong is even more limited as an actor than Tony Jaa. But once the action begins, oh boy does it begins, people getti...( read more)ng trown from moving trucks, bikes, crashing against cars, trowing themselves to burning wood-houses, kids fighting, elderly fighting, a guy with one leg kicking ass!

    This might not be Ong Bak, but it's still a damn fun ride.
  • June 25, 2007
    Merely okay. Some great stunts at the beginning, but bogs down kind of quickly.
  • June 16, 2007
    Wowsers.....

    Well, Ong Bak for me is still the bench mark in Thai movies.... the beauty and artistry of Thai warrior eclipses most Hollywood movies Ive seen. But where Born to Fight lacks the artistry, beauty, dialouge, with a few ridiculous moments, it certainly does make up ...( read more)with the passion!!

    It was interesting to see supreme Thai athletes kicking ass..... an interesting concept. But who cares about the stars noones ever seen on screen, the ACTION is what its about.

    Brutal!! Bloody!! GRAPHIC!! more grapahic than most horror movies!!! this is seriously not a movie for the innocent of heart, and lots of people do get killed, especially in the 40 minute fight scene! Guns, blood, martial arts and such...... thrown in like a heap of mess, but its the passion which drives it..... random yelling and screaming, and people literally get beat up but good in that movie!! Stunts were unbelievable!!! when you think stunts couldnt get any better, the piece de resistance right at the end..... before the whole village the size of my suburb gets blown to hell. O_O!!!

    throw in a rebel army, a cop, a team of athletes, the President of Thailand, a nuclear missle...... YES a NUCLEAR MISSLE!! and you got one very messy, bloody, passionate and extremely enjoyable movie!

    if your into this sort of thing.... in terms of gratituous violence, I dont think any movie can match it!! In Oz, they gave it an MA15+ rating, which was very generous I think, after watching it!!!

    So action lovers, Ong Bak lovers, this is like the movie you watch when your not watching Ong Bak. And people who have no bones about watching people get shot apart and beaten up 500 times.....

    Enjoy... when Ong Bak is a nice, upper class 5 dish meal, Born to Fight is a poor mans buffet..... but ALL YOU CAN EAT!!

    Just make sure you get your steak well done... after seeing the amount of claret spilled in this flick, you'll probably faint next time you get scratched.

    ^_^
  • February 3, 2007
    The movie was awesome in so many ways. Once the action picks up, it doesn't stop and it truly had some unbelievable moments. It was like they let a small child with A.D.D. direct it after feeding him nothing but sugar for a week. I felt like I was watching a crazy action fil...( read more)m crossed with hardcore wrestling which I was hoping wouldn't turn into Faces of Death. Great film, I already can think of about 5 people I'm going to recommend it to.
  • November 2, 2009
    i like this one..
    aha
  • August 4, 2009
    I finally found my copy of this buried at the bottom of a box and re-watched it.

    It was pretty much how I remembered it, not much substance but absolutely packed with jaw dropping stunts. If you like his kind of flick then it certainly entertains.
  • June 8, 2009
    mie nu mi-a placut deloc , nu l-am inteles si mi se pare ca se schimba actiunea fara nicio legatura , naspa
  • May 20, 2009
    A good martial arts film!

    This movie, directed by the martial arts choreographer of Ong-Bak, and produced by its director is a very good moment to pass.

    A lot of action, some amazingly dangerous stunts, some explosions, some very impressive moves, choreographies of fights origi...( read more)nal by moments, all those things make this movie be interesting to watch.

    The script isn't the most original, interesting. It's near a lot of action movies we saw previously, and so, more a pretext for fights than everything else.
    But anyways, that's what we want, what we expect.
    With this kind of films, we don't want to have a crazy story, but more to see 90 to 120 minuts of stunts and martial arts.
    So, considering that fact, this movie is clearly a success.

    Thaïland give us some very good movies of this kind since a few years, thanks to the success of Ong-Bak a few years ago.
    The thaï style is interesting, as the muay thaï is a beautiful way of fight, changing of the chinese and japanese martial arts; who stay cool anyways, but very less original for us, non-asian people.
  • April 9, 2009
    A half decent Thai action flick that started off pretty good and then got needlessly silly and over-the-top half way through. As with most foreign action flicks the story is almost non-existant and the characters are pure cardboard, but there are some great stunts to hold your a...( read more)ttention for the first little while. Born to Fight starts off with a serious tone and some surprising brutality that works well, but once the action kicks into high gear things get goofy really fast. Everyone joins in on the kung-fu action....kids, seniors, gymnasts, even a dude with one leg. And I lost count at how many times people threw soccer balls and cocoanuts in the air and kicked them at the bad guys standing 5 miles away. It really was the goofy tone in the second half that put me off of this movie, because even with all the amazing stunts I just lost interest. Average, at best.

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