Thai Action Films - Post-Rittikrai

[DrNgor]

I pulled up a list of "Action" movies from "Thailand" produced between "2015" and "2021" in the IMDB's Advance Search. These are the results. Have any of you watched some of these? If so, are there any worth watching?

OBS: There are some co-productions here.

 

7. Zero Tolerance (I) (2015)

8. Dark Element (2015)

10. Siam Yuth: The Dawn of the Kingdom (2015)

11. Pantai Norasingha (2015)

12. Trafficker (2015)

13. The Hand and Feet of Spin Tops (2016)

14. Monkey Twins (2016)

15. The Asian Connection (2016)

16. Khun Phan (2016)

17. Silence of the Dusk (2016)

18. Thong Dee Fun Khao (2017)

21. Saranae Love You (2017)

22. PlayBoy (and the Gang of Cherry) (2017)

23. Oversize Cops (2017)

24. Adam (V) (2017)

25. 7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)

26. Fantastic Friends (2018)

27. The 400 Bravers (2018)

28. Krut: The Himmaphan Warriors (2018)

29. Attrition (2018)

30. The Pool (III) (2018)

31. Triple Threat (2019)

32. Sisters (II) (2019)

33. Nemesis (II) (2019)

34. The Cave (III) (2019)

35. Khun Phaen Begins (2019)

36. Necromancer 2020 (2019)

37. The Driver (2019)

38. Bodyguard-Na-Hak (The Protector) (2019)

39. Paradise Z (2020)

40. Final Kill (2020)

41. Extraction (2020)

42. Dragon Pond Monster (2020)

43. Mother Gamer (2020)

44. E Riam Sing (2020)

Edited June 29, 2021 by DrNgor

[ShaOW!linDude]

Some of those title only hold true to Thailand as far as a location setting, I believe. Not sure they were actually produced there.

The only one that stood out to me as being a purely Thai production that I've seen would be Monkey Twins, which was on Netflix for a while. It had some solid Muay Thai action, but nothing that would really blow you away.

Oh, and Zero Tolerance suuuuuuuuuucks!!!

[DrNgor]

5 minutes ago, ShaOW!linDude said:

Oh, and Zero Tolerance suuuuuuuuuucks!!!

But it has such a great cast! How could it fail? *Looks at the director* Oh.

Edited June 28, 2021 by DrNgor

[One Armed Boxer]

Echo what @ShaOW!linDude said, combined with the fact that the action genre quickly fell out of fashion with Thai audiences before the end of the 00's.  Out of the one's you've listed, I've reviewed a few of them, links below - 

Attrition (2018)

Triple Threat (2019)

The Driver (2019)

[D1 Ma]

  just as others said, attrition, triple threat, extraction aren't  "real" Thai movies

 other than that, I only saw Monkey twins, and it's pretty average with one or two fights really standing out

I was under impression that Thai action cinema died with Panna Rittikrai

[DrNgor]

Well, as I clarified in my initial post, I simply posted the results of the IMDB search based on the criteria I put in quotations. I'm well aware that not all of the films would be real Thai films.

[Super Ninja]

Haven't seen it yet, but 400 Braves seems to be some kind of historical MA movie from the looks of it. It was available on YT on the WT collection channel, not sure if it still is.

Necromancer 2020 is an action thriller/black magic horror with bad CGI and plenty of action that's far from great. Little known Ant's Action team failed to deliver unfortunately, I couldn't find any information on what else they worked on.

I do agree Zero Tolerance sucks, as well as The Driver.

[Daxtreme]

Monkey Twins was decent, I'd give it a 6.5/10

But then again, I'm never not gonna watch anything with JeeJa Yanin so there's that.