Wow, what a great audience!
Ong-Bak makes Fight Club look like tellytubbies... People compare it to Crouching Tiger and the likes, but it's more like fight club in its setting at times, and the action is insane. I only learnt after the credits rolled that the film contains NO wires and NO CGI, just pure action. Tony Jaa is on par with Bruce Lee, showing what Thai-Boxing can really do.
The directing style of the film took a few scenes to get used to, as the film repeats most of the fighting sequences a second (often third) time, which had me in stitches to begin with. But you soon realise why - as the stunts are real in every way. No blue screen here.
If you haven't seen Ong-Bak, go grab a copy and watch - it has a simple story-line to follow: Village worships statue; head of statue stolen; villager sent to retrieve head; villager unwillingly enters a fight-club; villager ko's his opponents with one hit; villager worshipped; blah blah blah; villager returns with head. The English-dubbed soundtrack is pretty good, if hilarious at times.