We found this film to be an exciting, entertaining and at times even touching martial film chock full of well choreographed and cringe inducing fight scenes.
An autistic girl with martial arts skill attempts to collect on the debts of her sick mother. You will be treated to one of the most amazing displays of asskicking by a female protagonist in the history of action cinema. After a slow start, all of the movie is devoted to high quality choreography and bone-crunching maneuvers. The settings and scenarios change frequently, thereby avoiding any feel of repetition or monotony. This is brainless action at its very finest. JeeJa Yanin (Zen), who is an amazing specimen with her fluid moves and hard strikes, catapults herself into the upper echelon of female action stars with this single movie. Her punches and kicks start off rather basic, but get increasingly more complex until they peak during the jaw-dropping finale that lasts a whopping 20 minutes. There is lots of fun to be had here.
A young autistic girl is born of gangster parents. Masashi (Hiroshi Abe), the dad, is a self-respecting Yakuza member who doesn’t have a body full of tattoos, and mom Zin (Ammara Siripong) belongs to the Thai triads. It’s the perfect setting for a Romeo- Juliet styled love. Dad has to exile himself back to Japan to avoid an all out gang war, and Zin now becomes an outcast single parent, who has to struggle with cancer, as well as raising an autistic child.
I can’t think of any martial arts film I’ve seen that had moves any better than what is here. Roll together all the Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Jet Li and Jason Stratham that you’ve seen, blend in both Kill Bill’s, and top it with some really brutal work for the stunt guys. And yes it’s all being done by a little girl, but you won’t have much trouble at all believing she could really do it.
The movie does what it sets out to do and succeeds where so many Hollywood films fail in that it simply delivers the goods: We found this film to be an exciting, entertaining and at times even touching martial film chock full of well choreographed and cringe inducing fight scenes.
An autistic girl with martial arts skill attempts to collect on the debts of her sick mother. You will be treated to one of the most amazing displays of asskicking by a female protagonist in the history of action cinema. After a slow start, all of the movie is devoted to high quality choreography and bone-crunching maneuvers. The settings and scenarios change frequently, thereby avoiding any feel of repetition or monotony. This is brainless action at its very finest. JeeJa Yanin (Zen), who is an amazing specimen with her fluid moves and hard strikes, catapults herself into the upper echelon of female action stars with this single movie. Her punches and kicks start off rather basic, but get increasingly more complex until they peak during the jaw-dropping finale that lasts a whopping 20 minutes. There is lots of fun to be had here.
A young autistic girl is born of gangster parents. Masashi (Hiroshi Abe), the dad, is a self-respecting Yakuza member who doesn’t have a body full of tattoos, and mom Zin (Ammara Siripong) belongs to the Thai triads. It’s the perfect setting for a Romeo- Juliet styled love. Dad has to exile himself back to Japan to avoid an all out gang war, and Zin now becomes an outcast single parent, who has to struggle with cancer, as well as raising an autistic child.
I can’t think of any martial arts film I’ve seen that had moves any better than what is here. Roll together all the Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Jet Li and Jason Stratham that you’ve seen, blend in both Kill Bill’s, and top it with some really brutal work for the stunt guys. And yes it’s all being done by a little girl, but you won’t have much trouble at all believing she could really do it.
The movie does what it sets out to do and succeeds where so many Hollywood films fail in that it simply delivers the goods: well choreographed, bone crunching fight scenes.