What happens when you mix basketball with Thai kickboxing, pipes, brass knuckles and knives? A whole lot of people get hurt; it’s so brutal that fatalities are not uncommon.
There are two ways to win the sport of Fireball—score a single basket, or be the only team with men left standing. Scoring a basket sounds easy but it becomes a lot harder when people are beating the hell out of you.
Power Kids is an awkward fusion of kids and Thai martial arts cinema. Combine one part Muay Thai with two parts sappy melodrama and you get a final product that just doesn’t measure up to other Thai action flicks.
Elvis Presley...., sorry, Steven Seagal is secret agent man Jake Hopper, a kung fu good guy (with clazy mullet) who goes on a violent, tubby revenge trip when bad men from terrorist group Abu Karaf kidnap his brat daughter while she's sunning her arse on a backpack trip in Thailand. Ho hum.
A Thai action/comedy about food, family, and fighting. Sound too tame? How about some displaced giant Australians, papaya combat, diamond smuggling, and psychotic pro-wrestling thugs tearing entire scenes apart amidst some great Muay Thai kickboxing?
Citizen Dog is a Thai surreal romantic comedy with great visual style and use of sound and music. I really love this director's use of oddly bright pastel colors in both this movie and his previous film, Tears of the Black Tiger. It also features some off-the-wall creative touches like a zombie taxi motorcycle driver, a talking (and smoking and drinking) teddy bear, and many other oddities.
If you’re looking for some martial arts action, the Thai movie Chocolate is definitely worth your while. The story of a young girl born with autism who somehow picks up martial arts by watching a neighboring school and old movies (including some shamelessly inserted clips of Ong-Bak) is rather odd, but the stunts and fights make it top-notch viewing for martial arts fans.
