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Has anybody heard of this movie, The Protector? It’s a Thai kung-fu movie, kinda like a low rent Jackie Chan. Well low-ER rent. First go check out the HD trailer on Apple.com. Okay, what did you think? Yeah, me too. Totally! So I went to see it tonite, and I found it to be exactly what I want when I go see a kung-fu movie — lots of kung fu. Well technically in this case muay thai. The star is some guy I’d never heard of until recently, Tony Jaa he’s some kind of Thai hybrid between Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. The movie was basically non-stop fighting for 90 minutes. Frankly I don’t see anything wrong with that. It’s like renting a porn movie and complaining that there”s too much sex. Actually a kung-fu movie is a lot like a porn movie. In a kung-fu movie there is some cursory backstory, for example the main character’s father is killed and he must avenge his death. In a porn movie there is some cursory backstory, for example a pizza delivery guy arrives at an all girl sleep over. In a kung fu movie there are various fight sequences as the hero makes his way through the underlings to the boss. In a porn movie there are various sex sequences as the star makes his way through the underthings to the boobs. At the end of a kung fu movie there’s a huge battle royale where the star takes on 20 guys. In a porn movie we call this an orgy. You know what would be an AWESOME movie? 50% porn and 50% kung fu!!! Oh man, I’m gonna hop on this.