Despite the team’s intimidating name, the members of Fight Club are the good guys of this Thai actioner. The bad guy is the cigar-chomping gringo Mr. Snead (Speedy Arnold), who runs a high-stakes gambling operation where the minimum wager is $5,000. On what do his richie-rich clients bet? Quasi-gladitorial games between pairs of fighters in […]
Tony Jaa
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Muay Thai Giant
I’m serious, even if the movie almost never is. Standing at nearly 7 feet tall, the bald Jones plays “loser laborer” Barney, who wins a trip to Thailand. No sooner is he there than he is drugged and robbed. He’s left with nothing — no money, no passport — but his pants. Although his hands […]