Chocolate
She's sweet but deadly.
She's sweet but deadly.
Action, Crime
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2008
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Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.
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Details
Runtime:
93 min
Release date:
7 Feb 2008
Country:
TH
Languages:
English, Japanese, Thai
Budget:
$4,800,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 5 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
It's called Chocolate, but Cheese would have been just as good. Soaked with tears, full of schmaltz, and yet strewn with bodies, Prachya Pinkaew's new kick-'em-up is extreme action, extreme melodrama, and extremely hard to resist.
– Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe,
12 Mar 2009
fresh:
It boils down to this: Thai girl fighting. Is that enough of a movie for you?
– Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb 2009
rotten:
Chocolate is risibly sentimental even for a genre not known for its emotional sophistication.
– Nathan Lee,
New York Times,
6 Feb 2009
fresh:
The world may not have needed a Thai-language martial-arts hybrid of Kill Bill and Rain Man, but by God, it's got one now.
– Jim Ridley,
Village Voice,
3 Feb 2009
fresh:
The heart of the film may be its action sequences but, even outside the battle arena, 'Chocolate' is a nicely characterised and consistently likeable piece of work.
– Tom Huddlestone,
Time Out,
24 Oct 2008