Chocolate is a movie from the makers of Ong-Bak and The Protector.
As you might expect, it's a film filled to the rafters with martial arts. Long elaborate fight scenes tied together by a thin story line. Par for the course, but there is one slight difference...
Unlike their previous movies, the lead is a female.
A young autistic woman named Zen (Yanin Vismistananda) has developed uncanny martial arts skills by watching television, and from living next door to a Muay Thai academy.
The girl is the daughter of Zin (Ammara Siripong), the Thai wife of Yakuza boss Masashi (Hiroshi Abe).
Zin was previously the girlfriend of Thai gangster No. 8 (Pongpat Wachirabunjong), who was jealous of her relationship with rival gangster Masashi, so he cut off one of Zin's toes, and forbade her from seeing Masashi.
Zin then falls ill with cancer, and does not have the money to pay for treatments. One day, Zen's friend discovers a list of debtors in an old notebook, from the days when Zin was a high-interest moneylender under No. 8. In order to get money to pay for her mother's cancer treatment, Zen decides to collect on the debts, which leads to confrontations with various criminal gangs and, eventually, No. 8.
I would say that it's not as good as Ong-Bak or The Protector. The main problem is that the movie kind of feels like it was made by fans of the previous films. Kind of like a tribute instead of a spiritual successor. This point is justified in my opinion when you see Jin watching Ong-Bak early in the movie and then uses it as her inspiration for the ass-kickery later.
But I will say that is it incredibly cool seeing this tiny little girl kicking a whole lot of ass. It's like playing Tekken as
Jun Kazama.
The movie does start of slow though, and the initial fight scenes are rather simple. As the movie goes on though the plot gets a little more interesting, and the fight scenes get more elaborate. All climaxing in an epic fight scene that ends on the side of a building (that's all I'll say).
I recommend this movie to any martial arts movie fans especially those that liked Ong-Bak and The Protector.
Best part of the film is when Jin does her first fight scene and after every hit she does the whole Bruce Lee "WoooooooOOOoO!!"
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