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23 October 2008
Prachya Pinkaew is the Thai director who introduced martial arts star Tony Jaa to the world in Ong-Bak and Warrior King. Now he trumps his ace with JeeJa Yanin, a female version who zaps dozens with the best of them.
There’s an extended fight sequence towards the end of the film that takes place on the window sills, ledges and neon signboards of a multi-storey building which would make Bruce Lee turn pale. Apparently done without stunt doubles, too.
But Chocolate is a bit strange because JeeJa plays an autistic girl who at one point fights a brain-damaged boy. The director makes sure we know that it all proves how people with special needs can triumph.
Some, however, might disagree. In fact, fights apart, it’s a very odd plot indeed — the autistic girl’s mother, apparently married to a gangster, is having an affair with a handsome young man and is then diagnosed with cancer.
Chocolate
Cert: NC
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