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This is the first movie that has JeeJa Yanin as the leading role. I know she first hit a bit of fame with the movie "Chocolate"(2008) which shows off her martial arts stunt work. And I was actually quite impressed with her physical abilities in this one. Which sorta made me want to check out her previous movie and the ones that came after this one. As a matter of fact JeeJa and the guy that played Sanim spent over 4 yrs training for this movie. Which is quite a lot of dedication. And just about everyone in this flick pulled off there own stunts without relying much on wire works. I actually watched this movie with English dub which is just terrible but I actually found it to add comedic value to this flick. And the acting is pretty bad, but again that isn't the main focus for these types of movies. Which is fine because this one has quite a bit of creative and entertaining fight sequences. Which is composed of some muy thai break dancing fighting style and a bit of drunken boxing. Yeah, some of these fight scenes are far from being believable but it's still entertaining to watch. My main gripe with this flick though is that the cinematography isn't all that good. You can see everything that is going on without all that choppy fight sequence stuff in modern day action movies. But a bit of a better cinematography for the fight sequences would have added a lot of value to this one. The story is also laughable and I wouldn't be shocked if they got some of the ideas from the movie "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer". So yeah although the plot is not that well written and can come off laughable, I didn't find it irritating to watch. And the story blended in with the action decently. And was still entertained with this movie just about all the way through. I can see quite a bit of effort was put into this action flick, well at least with the resources they had and it was worth it.7.4/10

I greatly value originality in any story or flick. When I see something I've seen before, I recognize it and it's somewhat off-putting. This flick has a lot of martial arts that's unique but that's not the half of it. This is a martial arts flick with amazing, unique locations. Best of all it has a unique and original story line. One of the sets appears to be an abandoned hotel at the beach that was demolished in Thailand by the tidal wave. Another set is a labyrinth of tunnels and sewers. That's not all. This movie has atmosphere to spare. The characters are also original but I will not reveal anything about the unique, original story line.

Thai sensation JeeJa Yanin burst onto the martial arts movie scene in 2008 with Chocolate, wowing fight fans worldwide with her amazing performance as adorable but bad-ass autistic girl Zen (and earning her the title of 'the female Tony Jaa' in the process). Expectations were naturally high for her next film Raging Phoenix, but although Yanin once again displays incredible agility, skill, and speed, the film as a whole must be considered something of a disappointment, lacking the simplicity, charm, originality, and raw power of its predecessor.The script flits brazenly from one nonsensical scene to the next and is irritatingly indifferent to its main gimmick, the drunken fighting style of Meyraiyuth, so carefully developed in the first half of the film yet completely ignored in the second; almost as brash are the fight scenes that vary wildly in style from bone-crunching realism to comic-book excess (with naff wire-work employed for 'cool' gravity defying moves), most of which are so highly choreographed that they are more like immaculate dance routines than amazing displays of martial arts prowess (impressive to watch, certainly, but hardly adrenaline pumping). Meanwhile, Yanin desperately struggles to create another endearing character in Deu, but thanks to far too many embarrassingly over-melodramatic moments, her street urchin with attitude comes across as more pathetic than sympathetic.Throughout the film, there are plenty of scenes that display promise, but all ultimately fail to deliver the levels of genius that have made recent Muay Thai movies like Ong-Bak, Warrior King and Chocolate so memorable; the fact that this potential for awesomeness is so frequently and readily wasted makes Raging Phoenix an all the more frustrating experience.An unsatisfying 5.5 out of 10, generously rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

This is the second film of the supremely talented JeeJa Yanin, who starred in Chocolate a couple years back. Chocolate was like a trumpet blast followed by the announcement: "We now present to you the next great martial arts star, JeeJa Yanin!" Raging Phoenix is a perfect follow-up. Yanin plays a punk band drummer who is kidnapped by a ring of white slavers. A group of young men who have had women in their life harmed by these people save Yanin and train her in the martial art of Thai drunken boxing. Like most martial arts movies, the plot is pretty negligible. It's actually kind of weird, because it begins as the same kind of gritty realism of Chocolate but eventually veers into a more fantastical landscape where the villains are abducting women to extract their tears, which they make into a perfume that drives men crazy. Or some such nonsense. Who cares? The bottom line is that Yanin kicks every ass that anyone chooses to hand to her. And she's super freakin' cute while doing it. I'd probably rank it below Chocolate, but I'd say it's about at the same level. If you liked that film, this is a no-brainer.