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Once, Zin (Ammara Siripong) was a debt collector for a local gang, but
when she started an affair with yakuza Masashi (Hiroshi Abe), she fell out
with her boss, got her toe cut off, and got fired from her gang. Since
then, she has spent her time bringing up her autistic daughter Zen (Yanin
Vismitananda) and her adoptive son Moom (Taphon Phopwandee) - but then
she's diagnosed with cancer, and cannot afford proper treatment. Moom
finds a book containing all the names of people owing Zin money among her
things, and he figures that he and Zen should go collect the debts tohelp
pay for Zin's treatment. Whereverthey go to ask for money though, they are
only ridiculed and humiliated, but when they are attacked once, Zen, who
has been watching martial arts movies all her life, just beats the crap
out of all her attackers, though grossly outnumbered. Now the debt
collecting business works greatly, even if Zen has to fight an increasing
number of opponents with every new assignment. Eventually though, Zin's
former bos learns about this new girl in town, and he soon enough kidnaps
both Zin and Moom and even lures Masashi into a trap - but in the finale,
Zen beats the crap out of the whole gang and kills the boss in an extended
fight sequence ... unfortunately though, her mum, too, dies in the proces
... The premise of this film - an autistic fighting girl - is
almost great, and Yanin Vismitananda is really up to the task of playing
her role and looking great in fight scenes. Furthermore the fight scenes
are extremely creative and most of the time also exhilarating, and they
are very well shot. That all said though, Chocolate is by no
means perfect, and the problem is that too much of an effort is made to
give the film heart - which siply put is not a good idea when making an
action film - so many of the cheesier scenes feel completely out of place
here, and the few supposedly meaningful sequences just feel silly. The
glossy camerawork only emphasizes that, and the cheesy stuff makes the
film lose sight of its rather simple concept time and again. Still, if
you want to see great, high octane action, you better watch this movie -
just don't expect too much on top of that.
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