YMMV / Ong Bak 2

• Adaptation Displacement: The whole duology is officially a loose remake of Ai Noom Saraphad Phid (''The Man with Poison"), a short film made as an audition screener in Jaa's stuntman days, whose plot followed a martial artist resisting against his dark side with the help of Thai khon dance. However, few people outside Thailand know the original, and it seems the film is lost to ages because the film stock they used was expired.
• Ass Pull: The crow warrior appears from nowhere to beat Tien down, being the first time it was shown Rajasena had such a powerful fighter among his mooks, and it is not until the sequel that the viewer gets to know (barely) who or what he is. He feels pasted in, among other things because he was: the whole character was added to the film at the last minute after most the battle was shot, which you can note on how the brawl continues right after he beats up Tien and leaves.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Jaa kicking ass from an elephant might be a bit unsettling knowing that, in 2017, one of the elephants used in the Ong-Bak series went mad due to musth and gored a mahout to death.
• Moment of Awesome: Tien's fight against the brotherhood of bandits/pirates/ninjas that adopted him and taught him every form of combat known to man. It's a bit of a marathon too, and many viewers will be exhausted by the halfway point.
• Sequelitis: While Ong-Bak was universally liked at its time, this sequel was pretty divisive about whether it successfully lived up to the Tough Act to Follow or it was too exotic and pretentious, not to talk about its Cliffhanger ending.
• Signature Scene: The aforementioned marathonian battle is the film's best remembered scene.