Jukkalan

From what I've seen (mostly Tony Jaa's work, plus a few others), Thai martial arts films seem to run on more frenetic energy than those of other Asian sources. That's a good thing. I've not noticed JeeJa Yanin before, but here she approaches Jaa's level of intensity, balanced with a touch of Jackie Chan's comedy. The script hovers between incoherence and stupidity, but who cares? A couple of early fight scenes, uniquely using bicycles and parts as weapons, justify watching this action comedy. The dialog only delivers a few really good laughs, but they help.

Outtakes run during the credits. But they're mostly dialog screwups, rather than the more entertaining stunt mishaps that Jackie provides.

Jukkalan (2011) is not a very good movie. Not even the kicking ass of the gangsters can keep me watching as this show was not very good. It didn't have what I was exonerating about Action Jackson from 1988. Magnet Releasing is the worst studios to see shows from. Only a little bit of action and a whole lots talk.

If you enjoy the Jackie Chan style movies of comedy and action mixed together with a bunch of physical acrobatics and stunts, then you will definitely also light "Jukkalan" (with the amazingly bad English title of "This Girl is Badass").

The story is about Jukkalan (played by JeeJa Yanin) who lives with Wang (played by Petchtai Wongkamlao (who also directed the movie). Jukkalan works as a bike messenger, delivering questionable goods to an even less questionable clientèle. The young Duan (played by Chalerm Yamchamang) is in love with Jukkalan, but she doesn't acknowledge him or his courting, as she has her eyes set on Pong (played by Sthit Amornvej). Things heat up and turn dangerous as various questionable bosses wants their goods and the bike messengers soon find themselves in over their heads.

Storywise, then "Jukkalan" was adequate. The story was simple and very easy to follow, however it was simple to the point where it was starting to be a tad too much. But the pace of the movie, the action and the chance to see JeeJa Yanin in a comedic action role more than makes up for the lack of a proper storyline.

Something that really had be puzzled were the characters in the movie. Most of them were really odd and hilarious, not to mention very much out there.

While "Jukkalan" doesn't match "Chocolate" or "Raging Phoenix", it is a must watch for all fans of JeeJa Yanin.

If you've seen Ong bak series, bangkok KO, chocolate or any action stuff from siamese team. You will know what you will see once you make a decision to watch this movie. One thing that I notice from every thai action movie I ever see is they never tell us how the main character know how to fight! They just can fight automatically and very skillfully. I don't know but I honestly enjoying this movie because its fighting choreography is awesome although we always see that move, you know like bare-knuckle and I wonder why they never using gun, that's more easier right? But for me, for action lover like me this movie is considered OK and watchable, have some funny moment and interesting subplot like love, drugs dealer and like thai always do. Just watch it!

This Girl Is Bad-Ass!! (2011) is currently available on Tubi and tells the tale of a woman who is hired by two gangs to sneak items to various locations. Being stuck in the middle her life is constantly at risk...until she decides she should be the one to bring down both gangs. This movie stars and is directed by Petchtai Wongkamlao (The Bodyguard 1 & 2) and also stars JeeJa Yanin (Chocolate). The storyline for this is fairly dreadful but the fight scenes at times are really good. There are some really clever fight sequences with good use of props. There are also some comedy squeezed into this, especially one of the mob bosses voices. Overall this movie is really bad, painfully drawn out in some areas and isn't as good as Yanin's Chocolate. I would recommend watching that over this and would score this a 3/10.