6/10
Raging Phoenix
11 January 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Things aren't going well for Deu; while performing as a drummer see sees her boyfriend chatting to another girl she overreacts and loses both the boyfriend and her place in the band. It looks like things can't get much worse but then she is kidnapped by people who intend to sell her to the infamous Jaguar Gang. She is rescued by Sanim and soon meets his friends 'Dog' and 'Pig'. She learns that they each had loved ones taken by the gang and are tried to destroy the gang. She asks to be taught their strange martial art; Meyraiyuth… a skill which requires its user to be drunk! After training, they go up against the Jaguar Gang; things don't go quite as planned and they will be in a lot of danger as they search out the gang's fearsome leader.

This film is a bit of an odd one; it is sold as an action movie with emphasis on the fact that it is JeeJa Yanin's second film after the bone-crunching 'Chocolate' but much of this seems far more comic. The fighting seems more like stylised dance moves; impressively choreographed but for the most part lacking the impact one might expect. The story itself is fairly silly; the gang are kidnapping select people to extract their pheromones to make expensive perfume and the final scenes take place in what appears to be a bottomless pit with criss-crossing rope bridges that seem to serve no purpose other than to provide a nice setting for a multilevel fight! The cast do a decent enough job and if you can laugh at the silliness it is quite fun but nowhere near as memorable as 'Chocolate'.

These comments are based on watching the film in Thai with English subtitles.
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