What I loved most: Muay Thai scenes with JeJa Yanin

What I really hated: The transgender characters (MTF transgenders) are always evil, a pity, as in The Protectors.

Panna Rittikrai choreographed the films of his protégé Tony Jaa in Ong bak 1 and The Protectors directed by Praycha Pinkaew. Most recently Ong Bak 2 (Tony Jaa) and Chocolate alias Fury (Pinkaew) were screened at the Far East Film Festival in Udine last month where Panna Rittikrai and Praycha Pinkaew were guests. Pinkaew said he was in the process of making a new film with seven female action heroines. Together with Rittikrai he has created a fantastic female action film, Fury, where Zen, a young autistic girl played by JeeJa Yanin, takes on the underground world of her mother and like Tony Jaa and and Dan Chupong pounces them to smithereens with Muay Thai. Yanin started off with Taekwon do just as Tunta in Rittikrai's Born to Fight played by Rattaporn Khemtong who is actually on the Thai gymnastics team. JeeJa would have been in that film and was saved for Fury. There is another young female show stopper in Born to Fight--the little girl Baetoey. In real life she is Sasisa Jindamanee, the junior national champion in Thai kick boxing. What the film lacks in acting style and narrative development is more than compensated by the movement and charisma of these outstanding martial artists. One can't help but be pulled in to the story however because the sincerity and plight of the characters is so engaging. It is virtually impossible to take your eyes off of JeeJa in Fury. How often have you seen a film like this where a girl kicks ass, and there is no side show going on. She does it for the pure love of her mother and cousin Moom and to help pay her mother's hospital expenses. While fighting even her opponents and mother stand with mouth open at her prowess. She did her own stunts too which can be seen in the end credits where she is bandaged up and taken care of by medics on the scene. Pinkaew and Rittikrai are fantastic. More films , keep those films coming! Udine loves the work and all the international press like me in attendance!

What I loved most: Best fight scenes and great action scenes!

What I really hated: none

I was curious and interested to know why the name of this Thai action movie called "Chocolate". But to my surprise, it turned out to be a new Thai female action star movie after the Muay Thai action star Tony Jaa! I was impressed and excited to see a new Thai petite female action star who is stunning, highly skilled and well trained in Muay Thai and martial arts! The director Prachya Pinkaew who directed Tony Jaa's "Ong Bak" and " Tom Yum Goong" really produce a great action movie and a great heroine after Tony Jaa this time! The fight scenes are very good and realistic, the action scenes are also very entertaining and dangerous! Jija Yanin, the first time actress really fight very well in the movie. Especially when she beat up the bad guys and fight the debtors everywhere when she collect debts and money owed to her mother to pay for her mother's medical bills in the movie. The action choreographer Panna Rittikrai has also done a very good job! Go and watch this movie if you like to see a female action movie! You won't be disappointed and regret it!

What I loved most: The fight scenes, the fight choreography

What I really hated: Samurai swords in Thailand?

This movie has some really great fight scenes-- much better than a lot of movies I've seen recently. I recommend this movie to all true martial arts fans out there. Forget the story-- it's nothing great or original-- it's only there to provide a background for the true point of watching a movie like 'Chocolate'-- the fight scenes! The fight choreography is very very good and the actress who plays 'Zen,' the leading character of the story, is a true martial artist. Man can she kick-- she reminds me of some of the best female martial artists in Hong Kong action movies of years past. She's not just some actress given 'coaching' on how to do some fight moves, she definitely has a martial arts background. From the way she kicks, I can tell that she has a background in Taekwondo and of course has learned Muay Thai as well. She should come out in a movie with Jackie Chan or Jet Li-- she can definitely hold her own in fight scenes with both of them.

What I loved most: The fight scenes

What I really hated: Not very creative in the fight scenes

The title had me mistaken it as some sort of movie relating about chocolate but it turned out to be a fighting thai movie directed by the guy behind Ong Bak. As a guy behind all the action-packed moves, you should know that this will be one hell of ride. Kicking and punching everywhere and smashing into people's heads. The story is straightforward but in these kind of movies, we don't expect to have a complex story line but good action scenes. Though the story is boring or I don't even want to know the story but see action, I have to give credit to the fighting scenes, people get hurt for real as you see in the blooper like they bleed or got injured for real while making this movie. It is why when you look at the fighting scenes, they look real. The main character even had cuts on her face and bled. That is the thing I had to credit for, they all have the guts to make this movie. On the other hand, I don't know what to say about the director, either the director is crazy or he wants to make the fighting scenes look real. Overall: It is okay for an action movie, at least I am thrilled with the fighting scenes and nothing else. I don't know what to comment on the story but it is an action movie, leave your brains at hom when watching this or not you won't have fun.