SOM TAM Trailer

For those unfamiliar, Nathan Jones is the behemoth of a man who fought Jet Li in Fearless and Tony Jaa in Tom Yum Goong - one of only two men in the world who can make that claim, and I’ll give a candy to anyone who can name the other without looking it up - and also is featured in Troy. Calling him enormous is a bit of an understatement. So what has Thai film company Sahamongkol done to him here? They’ve cast him opposite children, of course. It’s a martial arts comedy in which Jones stars as a homeless and very timid foreigner living on the streets of Bangkok who is taken in by two young girls, one of whom is familiar to fans of Born To Fight. He’s quiet and peaceful until he eats a bowl of very spicy papaya salad - the Som Tam of the title - at which point buildings are destroyed and aircraft collapse in terror. This looks hysterical. And also painful in the funnest possible way.