The Power Kids (Thailand Movie)

Four children sneak into a terrorist controlled hospital to steal a heart to transplant for the 5th child who is dying in a different hospital. Power Kids is a product of Prachya Pinkaew (“Ong-Bak”, “Tom-Young-Goong”) and his Baa-Ram-Ewe production company, and translates the adrenalin fueled, Muay Thai action of his previous movies to kids. Wuth (Nantawooti Boonrapsap), Pong (Paytaai Wongkamlao), Catt (Sasisa Jindamanee), and Jib (Nawarat Techarathanathanprasert) are all students who live at Master Lek’s (Arunya Pawilai) Thai Boxing academy. I’m not sure where their parents are in all of this, but the only time any of their progenitors are mentioned is in relation to Pong, whose father is a famous country singer/comedian (Petchtai Wongkamlao, Dirty Balls from “Ong-Bak”, and also his real life father), but only appears in the film via photograph.

Despite being happy-go-lucky, junior badasses (they come together to beat up a giant muscle-man in a slapstick scene that shows their unity through groin pummeling), these kids have all the standard kid problems, bullies on four-wheelers, drunken Americans, the big RC-car race tomorrow, and, most pressing, congenital heart defects. Wuth’s younger brother, Wun, has a bad heart and collapses while fleeing some neighborhood toughs. The good news is that the doctors have found a suitable donor organ for transplant and are prepared to perform the operation, just in the nick of time. The bad news is that a group of heavily armed insurgents has taken over the hospital where the heart is, “Die Hard” style.

Krissanapong Rachata (director) / Nonont Kontaweesook, Napalee, Piyaros Thongdee (screenplay)
CAST: Nantawooti Boonrapsap … Wut
Sasisa Jindamanee … Kat
Pimchanok Leuwisetpaiboon … Teelor Girl
Richard William Lord … Drunk Bully
Johnny Nguyen … Rebel Leader
Arunya Pawilai … Lek
Conan Stevens … Ambassadors Bodyguard

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