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It's hard to believe it's been almost 20 years since director Prachya Pinkaew released Ong Bak to the world in 2003, heralding what was seen at the time as a new era of action with Thailand at the helm. Of course, leading man Tony Jaa was an equal, if not more, part of Ong Bak's success, with Pinkaew returning to the director's chair for Jaa's subsequent vehicles, Tom Yum Goong in 2005, and after a falling out, its unfortunate sequel Tom Yum Goong 2. in 2013. The sequel is worth mentioning as it represented the final nail in the coffin for audience excitement when it came to Thai action production, and with it, the Once common discussions, such as what kind of crazy action Thailand would produce next, also boiled down to nothing. I mention this, as 2022's Shadow Master seems to hark back to the mid to late 2000s era, seemingly oblivious to the fact that no one cares about brutal elbows to the head or flying knees to the torso. It becomes apparent why when, in th...