CHOCOLATE Film Review - 22/12/08

This is the tale of a young autistic girl and her mother who have mounting debts owed to them by the local crime lords downtown. The autistic daughter and a local lad set about getting the money back as the young girl beats the crap out of the local thugs in some brutal fight scenes particularly in a butcher's yard. Whilst the mother is taken ill we have the main story taking place between the local Yakuza & Triads as vicious infighting takes place within the gangs. Being the ex-girlfriend of one of the leaders of the group drags the family into some full-contact martial arts punch ups as the villains send in a gang of lady-boys who get slaughtered in a shootout. The jaw dropping moment comes at the end of the film in a massive fight sequence, topped off with gunplay and a mass swordfight. Following this your jaw drops even further when the protagonists proceed to have a full-scale fight scene on the side of a building with people plummeting (For real!) down a 4-storey drop onto pavement several times over. As the credits roll you get to see the real injuries and accidents as they cart people off to hospital. A pretty sturdy fight film that starts off slow and builds to an explosive finale!