Genre: Comedy, Action
Starring: Nathan Jones, Noawarat Tacharathanaprasert, Sasisa Jindamanee
Release year: 2008
Language: Thai
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
Nathan Jones, plays Barney Emerald in Somtum. He’s a carefree guy, tricked by a pretty woman in Pattaya who later steals everything he owns, including his passport.
Barney heads to the tourist information center to ask for help but the place was already closed. There, he meets Katen (Narawat Techarattanaprasert), an orphan street hustler. Barney is soon confronted by a gang who often harasses Katen but instead of driving the bad guy away, Barney turns out to be a wimp and too scares to throw some punches. Katen’s friend Dokya (Sasisa Jindamanee), a Muay Thai fighter comes to the rescue.
After the incident, Barney stays in a Buddhist temple, where he’s given shelter. On a visit to Dokya’s mother’s somtum stall, Barney tries a taste of somtum, a traditional thai salad, out of curiosity. He feels like his mouth is burning and storms out to get some water. What he doesn’t know is that when he turns red from the heat of spice, he’s grained with a superpower.
RATING: 7.5/10
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REVIEW:
"Somtum, the food, is a spicy treat. It's best shared with friends. You can all dip into the same plate of spicy, sweet and sour papaya salad with your forks, and daub up the juices with generous helpings of sticky rice.
And Somtum, the movie, is a lot of fun, too. And, yes, you should see it with friends, and marvel at this action-packed, oftentimes silly, but also very sweet tale.
Nathan Jones, the towering Australian strongman and former WWE wrestler, who's played a screaming, menacing madman in such films as Troy, Fearless and Tom Yum Goong, gets to play the face -- the good guy -- in Somtum. It must have been refreshing for him after being cast as the heel time after time...
... Some guest appearances and feature fights keep it interesting. The girl boxer Sasisa, grown up since her appearance as a half-pint-sized Muay Thai fighter in Born to Fight is a wonder to behold, a lethal combination of flying knees, elbows and dimples.
In fact, Somtum is a Born to Fight reunion of sorts. Dan Chupong makes an appearance as a policeman and he mixes it up in a comical kitchen fight. Taekwando artist Kessarin "Nui" Ektawatkul, who played Chupong's sister in Born to Fight, shows up as a hilarious toothpick-chomping papaya vendor who pitches in to help Dokya out in a street fight.
There's some foreign wrestlers on hand, too, and they mix it up with Nathan toward the end of the movie. It's a unique mix - rasslin' piledrivers and Muay Thai kicks. Somehow, it works.
With action choreography by Panna Rittikrai (who also takes producer credit), I got the sense that the criticism leveled at some of his past films, about fighters hanging around in the background waiting for the protagonist to attack, has been duly noted. In Somtum, when a bad guy is put down on the ground, they stay down. Or if several people attack at once, they are dealt with in ways that at least seem plausible. "
Source: Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
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