This movie has dumbness stamped all over it. Granting a few points for a couple of interesting fights.

The movie starts: Deu is jumping off her drum stool to assault her boyfriend, Deu is being kidnapped by a transvestite in a van, Deu is rescued by a man with no shirt buttons and they're attacked by razor pogo ninjas. If it had kept to this pace of rapid nonsense it might have been entertaining all the way through, but it attempts to explain everything in boring detail (except the pogo ninjas), and even the fights, while more narratively competent than the script, lose their luster by the end.

The story is some ridiculous twaddle about sad girls being kidnapped to turn their tears into perfume (for real), but the fight scenes are plentiful and amazing. Unlike Chocolate, which takes 30 minutes to get going, Raging Phoenix drops a major fight scene in the first 10 minutes. The fighting combines Muay thai, drunken boxing, parkour and breakdancing into a completely impractical but incredible looking combat style.

Terrible, awful film. I thought Jeeja Yanin was supposed to be the next Jackie Chan. She doesn't even get a fight scene in the first 30 minutes, just a load of "acting" moments and dialogue which is the last thing you want in a martial arts film. When the fights do arrive, they are ridiculous, unrealistic epics which incessantly disregard the laws of physics and the human body. Nonsensical fights, inane acting, and for a female-lead film it's incredibly misogynistic in its portrayal of women :(