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Chocolate

She's sweet but deadly.

2008 · 1h 33m · R Action, Crime
Directed by Prachya Pinkaew

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Overview

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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All reviews
73%
Tomatometer
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
Fresh

It boils down to this: Thai girl fighting. Is that enough of a movie for you?

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

Chocolate is risibly sentimental even for a genre not known for its emotional sophistication.

Nathan Lee, New York Times
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
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

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