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She- Bruce Lee

Chocolate (Thai, 2008) Why Chocolate? I am still wondering after completing the film. The only thing remotely linked to chocolate is that the protagonist loves M&M and in one of fight scene there were stacked boxes labelled 'Chocolate' on it. Generally, I do not fancy violent shows but this is an exception. Kudos to the believably natural stunts in place unseen before on films - in a pork market with cleaver swinging thugs and the climax fight scene off a roof and parapet. At the end of the movie, we are shown that many stuntmen and even the actress (Yanin "Jeeja" Vismitananda, a 3rd dan taekwando exponent) get injured on numerous occasions. The story is nothing to shout about but the martial arts are out of this world. It is a combination of Bruce Lee's acrobatic moves, Jacky Chan's practical fighting using things that come along the way like doors and muay thai type of kiss-ass movements! Zin angers the Thai underworld warlord (no. 8) when she leav...