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My first review ever for Film School Rejects was for Prachya Pinkaew’s brilliant Ong-Bak. Back then I was a fresh-faced, seven-year old ready to tackle the world of film journalism. Almost three years later, I’m a bitter twenty-four year old ready to tackle a bottle of Maker’s Mark and call it a night.

The one thing that stops me from destroying my life with sweet, sweet alcohol is a trailer like this:

Somehow, Yanin Vismitinanda (Jeeja to her friends) manages to be adorable and deadly in the same shot while she does some of the most impressive martial arts work I’ve seen since Ong-Bak, the kind of thing we’ve come to expect from Pinkaew as a director. Based on the trailer alone, the story looks like a violent exterior shell wrapped around a sweet, sappy center.

So yes, when a girl breaks the neck of a guy with a high kick while holding onto her dollie and asks me to taste the fury – I have no other choice but to chow down.

I’ve been looking forward to seeing this ever since our own Rob Hunter reviewed it for his Foreign Objects column, and I’m even more psyched that it comes out in theaters on February 6th followed up by a February 10th DVD release. Thus, I won’t have to hunt the way I usually have to or illegal rig my DVD player to be All-Region.