The Protector

2005 R 1h 23m Blu-ray / DVD

The Protector

2005 R 1h 23m Blu-ray / DVD
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Tony Jaa stars as Kham, a young Thai fighter who sets off for Sydney, Australia, to reclaim his family's prized pachyderms. When a nefarious Chinese gang shoots his father and makes off with two beloved elephants, Kham vows to settle the score.
Cast
Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Xing Jing, Nathan Jones, Johnny Nguyen, Lateef Crowder, Jon Foo, Damian de Montemas, David Asavanond
Director
Prachya Pinkaew
Format
Blu-ray DVD
Screen
Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1
Subtitles
English
CC
Yes
Audio
Thai: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Screen
Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1
Subtitles
English
CC
No
Audio
Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1
Rating
R - Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them. R - Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
age 17+
Common Sense rating OK for kids 17+
age 17+

Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that the film is essentially a series of brutal martial arts fights, with bones crunching and bodies slamming. In a sad scene that leads directly to action, a young man's father is shot (bloody chest) and dies in his arms. Fights show bodies thrown through walls and windows, into furniture, and in/out of vehicles. Some assaults result in bloody faces or bodies. One sequence features slow motion kicks/hits performed in standing water, with background fires burning; another a lengthy series of bones breaking (arms, legs, necks, backs) with loud sound effects. One villain throws a baby elephant through as window (reportedly, a real elephant was not used); one adult elephant appears dead/mounted as a trophy. One scene shows characters eating exotic animals (close-ups of slithery items being chewed), while another shows young women/older men in mud bath, and still another shows a young boy dying of poisoning (briefly gruesome).

Sexual Content

A couple of scenes feature women disrobed/disrobing; in a mud bath, a dancer/call girl rubs mud on her breasts/torso and lap dances a police commissioner (other girls appear in background, in thongs, with another man); in another, a woman bathes in rose petal water, emerging to have a man put a silk robe on her (no explicit body parts here); Rose is portrayed by a famous Thai transsexual star.

Violence

Ongoing and often brutal martial arts action (bone-breaking, falling, flipping, punching, kicking, assaults with poles); character shot in chest (visible blood, and he dies); some other shooting, some car chasing/crashing.

Language

Profanity, including "ass" and "s--t" (once written in subtitle).

Social Behavior

Villains deal in all sorts of corruption (police payoffs, exotic animal cuisine, drugs, guns); hero is extremely focused and upright.

Consumerism

Not applicable

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

Drinking by background characters.

  • Age appropriate
  • Not an issue
  • Depends on your child and your family
  • Parents strongly cautioned
  • Not appropriate for kids of the age

This information for parents is provided by Common Sense Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving kids' media lives.

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