Movie News - Tony Jaa is finished

At one point Tony Jaa was the most exciting martial arts star on the planet. Then he became a big weird joke. And now he's done. Twitchfilm is reporting that Tony Jaa has quit filmmaking and become a monk in Thailand.

This doesn't necessarily mean his career is at an end, though. Twitch points out that it's not uncommon in Thai culture to take some time to join a monastery, and Jaa could eventually leave the religious life and return to kicking ass in movies, but it's unlikely that this will happen any time soon.

Jaa's career has been on a downward spiral; after demanding directorial control on Ong Bak 2 he got it, and turned in a movie with good action but really shitty everything else. I haven't seen Ong Bak 3 but hear that it's terrible - according to Twitch it's essentially a failure in Thailand.