Chocolate

release year: 2008
genre: action/drama
viewing setting: home streaming 4/30/23

synopsis: A young girl with some developmental issues has the ability, it turns out, to emulate martial artists after watching them...which she uses to help her mom.

impressions: It's kind of a tragic plot, but the fighting scenes are plentiful, varied, and probably didn't use stuntpeople. This girl sees that her mother needs expensive medical care, also finds that a whole bunch of lowlifes owe the mother money from her past life, and starts seeking them out - with violent and entertaining results. Just some amazing martial arts work here.

acting: Yanin Vismitananda is the young, autistic girl who also has some sort of photographic reflexes and can learn any fighting style she witnesses. Ammara Siripong is her formerly-badass mom who's now settled down. Taphon Phopwandee is a bumbling but well-meaning kid who they kind of adopt. Pongpat Wachirabunjong is the long-haired, glasses-wearing, wanna-be-cool bad guy. Hiroshi Abe is the girl's father, who was forced to leave town but is still a deadly fighter.

final word: Great movie about both/either awesome martial arts fighting and triumph against great odds.

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