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Saw Born to Fight last night. Think Ong Bak meets Shaolin Soccer but somehow not as good as that sounds. Kudos for the shots of the little girl tae kwon do-ing that guy’s dick in, as well as the “death-for-all-fake-stuntmen” approach. The whole weird patriotism flava seems weird to us the Western “and England’s dreaming” crowd. We can save Thailand through discipline and sports philosophy and tight shots of the flag.

100 hundred villagers roused by the Thai national anthem coming out a shitty boombox run into the guns of the terrorists, but ’sall good cos the martial artists are all safe as, including the one with one leg. True to form, sarge with the dodgy tache gets blown to fuck in the first reel, but most of the Hollywood action tropes are presented as token, kinda totem signifiers that they stick in cos they have to, dig? Now on with the ass kicking. Still, unlike pussy Hollywood terrorists, the rogue army actually fucking shoots some of the children, on camera. Nice.

The techno soundtrack ruled. For some reason it made me want to see a German action/martial arts movie. Now there’s a hook.