Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior

Ong-Bak announced Tony Jaa to the world and proved that Muay Thai could anchor an entire action film with zero wirework, zero CGI, and zero stunt doubles. Jaa plays a village protector who travels to Bangkok to recover a stolen Buddha head, and the film exists to showcase his inhuman physical abilities: flying knees through car windshields, elbow strikes that split tables, and the famous triple-replay stunts where the camera shows his most impossible moves from multiple angles because seeing them once would not be believed. The chase through the Bangkok market — involving barbed wire, fire, and a refrigerator — is one of the great foot pursuit sequences in cinema.