Chocolate

SETTING: The film takes place in many areas around Thailand.

RATING: R, ACTION.

PLOT: a young Thai female falls for a Japanese fella who is from the wrong side of the line. their evident love brings an autistic child into the world whose special gift will eventually help her mother raise money to fight her mothers cancer.

QUOTE: I don't know any Thai so.......... yeah ...um... no quotes....sorry.

THOUGHTS: I must let you in on a little secret... I am a huge fan of oriental film!! very few have I not liked. Everything from romance and drama to their versions of horror flicks! So this film has become one of my favorites.

SYNOPSIS: This film begins during a tense meeting between the Yakuza and the Thai mafia. No. 8's mistress Zin falls in love for Masashi from the Yakuza and becomes his lover. When No. 8 discovers their affair, he orders Masashi to return to Japan. 9 months later Zin delivers a baby girl named Zen, who after a doctor visit is diagnosed as autistic. Zen is raised watching the students of a martial arts school nearby and Kung Fu movies on television. Zen learns how to fighting styles just by watching, she can mimic the moves perfectly. When Zen becomes a teenager, her friend Moon uses her accurate reflexes to raise money to help pay for the treatment of cancer.
Moon finds a black book with people that owe money to Zin, and he decides to collect the loans with Zen at his side. When their meetings go south Zen is forced to fight in order to get the money out of them. This of course attracts the attention of No.8 who captures Moon to force a meeting with Zin resulting in the.......nah your gonna have to find out all by your lonesome....

CONCLUSION: This is a wonderful film that all should watch, especially if you have a passion for oriental films. The version that I watched had no subtitles and was spoken only in Thai. which is in my eyes isn't such a bad thing. Actions speak louder than words.

MY RATING: I give this film 4 out of 5. Zin learns fighting styles from 2 of the great martial art masters of our time. She watches and learns from Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan films. The storyline is more than just kick ass, there is purpose and love from an autistic child.

CINEMA AUTOPSY RATING: 2 OUT OF 5 It is somewhat difficult to believe that Prachya Pinkaew, the director of the breathtaking Muay Thai martial-arts film Ong-bak, is also responsible for this very dodgy film about a girl whose autism somehow gives her special fighting skills.

The Losers

SETTING: well the nice thing about this movie is that every time the setting changes they use a cool computer- aided graphic to place the name of the area on the landscape. Mostly this film takes place in Bolivia and Miami, though it has a few other places that help drag the story along, (literally).

RATING: PG-13, ACTION, CRIME, ADVENTURE.

PLOT: Um... well.... if you have seen any action film in your life you have probably seen this film before. The story involves a special forces team secreted into the wilds of Bolivia. Their only objective is to eradicate an enemy of the State. Once the team decides to kill the mark their own way they have pretty much sealed their own fate with the C.I.A.. A classic DOUBLE CROSS!!!!
(how ingenious.)

QUOTE: Now, just to let you know Jensen is the funniest in the group so I have a few of them for you.
* Jensen: That's right bitches; I got a crossbow!

*Jensen: [women are looking at Jensen, who is undressed in an elevator] So... you, uh, ladies liking the angle of the dangle?

*Jensen: I'm warning you, I am a lethal killing machine. It was a secret government experiment. They did stuff to me. Spooky stuff... Anal stuff. It turned me into a dangerous telekinetic. In the words of Ancient Taoist masters, Don't start none... Won't be none.

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*Max: It's like giving a handgun to a six-year-old, Wade - you don't know how it's gonna end, but you're pretty sure it's gonna make the papers.

THOUGHTS: This film needed some serious help. Fortunately it came in the form of 2 characters, Cougar and Jensen. Jensen being my favorite, he reminds me of Murdock from the television show A-Team, (though not as psychotic...) And cougar, due to the fact that he is the team sniper!!

SYNOPSIS: A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max, a rogue C.I.A.. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.

CONCLUSION: Ok folks, at this point go rent something else. Jensen is the only reason to watch the film. No, really even the action scenes are cliche at best. Go to Starbucks, get a venti triple shot and play in traffic, it will be more exciting, I promise.

MY RATING: Believe me I would have given this film a 1, yes a one. this film receives a 2 only for the fact that Jensen is hilarious.

CHICAGO SUN TIMES (EBERT) 3 1/2 OUT OF 5. "The Losers" is a classical action movie based on a comic strip. It does just enough nodding toward the graphics of drawn superheroes, and then gets that out of the way and settles down into a clean, efficient and entertaining thriller.