From the beginning on I was disappointed because of the bad acting of the main actor. The way he walks, the way he fights... he looked like an amateur, which I later found out, was true. Sometimes it's just lame, sometimes it's some fresh air.

Another thing was the kick boxing mentor of Dida. The trick he reveals to Dida is, to injure the opponent with a non-legal elbow-hit. I would have expected some more sophisticated fighting technique. I was really disappointed from the fighting scenes. The real interesting hits were cut out, I think Dida didn't want to see a stunt man in his stead, and wasn't good enough at it himself.

I watched the movie, because I wanted to have a look at kick boxing. Because Dida is a beginner who steadily climbs in his skills in fighting, I hoped to get a glance at fighting and training techniques. Unfortunately, they don't mention at all what kick boxing is for, and what it makes different than other fighting sports (Apart from the obvious). I compared it to "Million Dollar Baby", where Clint Eastwood explains a lot about boxing.

Finally, I missed the big surprises in the film. The story was pretty predictable and superficial. If I didn't know that the story is true, I would believe it's just a bad movie script. Irony of fate ;)

Thank you for xavier durringer to give us this movie and for sur the ladybars movies too but chok dee is really interesting for all the thailand fans bernard giraudeau play so well and it is his last movie before he die and dida is very good actor i don't know why he doesn't play anymore so thai boxing at his best.