Chocolate

Dir Prachya Pinkaew w/ Jija Yanin, Hiroshi Abe. 90min. Midnight Madness.

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BY Jason Anderson   September 02, 2008 21:09

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Madness vets who screamed with pleasure through the legendary 2003 screening of Ong-Bak will wet themselves again over the same team’s girl-positive spin on the same Thai recipe of hyperkinetic choreography, dazzling stunts and dubious acting. In place of Tony Jaa comes Jija Yanin, a tae kwon do black belt who plays a seemingly autistic young woman who loses her impassive manner when kicking ass. The first 30 minutes of set-up are dreadful but the next 60 are damn near sublime thanks to an ever-intensifying series of set pieces that variously involve butcher knives, transvestite gangsters and many extras falling off tall ledges. Sweet. 

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