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Acclaimed Thai action director Prachya Pinkaew helms this martial arts drama, which follows Zen (JeeJa Yanin), a young autistic woman who discovers that she has the uncanny ability to absorb precision fighting skills just by watching martial arts movies. When her cancer-ridden mother's creditors come calling, Zen attempts to settle the debts by standing up to a hardnosed gang of criminals who have wrongfully swindled money from her family.

Serenity-ish autistic chick meets The Protector complete with Thai lady boys and yakuza. Not much in the way of story - but still funny in parts. Decent fight scenes despite the fact that the hero is a less than 100lb girl. Entertaining diversion if you want cheesy martial arts.
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Ladyboys you say?
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Fat Cat wrote:Ladyboys you say?

Rather fabulous ladyboys with guns, actually.
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going to grab this one then.

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Shafpocalypse Now wrote:going to grab this one then.
It was obvious that the mention of ladyboys was going to win over many IGX brothers.
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It'll go platinum when the P&B finds out about it.
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