Movie Name : The Sanctuary
Actress Name : Patharawarin Timkul
Character Name : Selina
Year : 2009
In 2009 movie The Sanctuary. Actress Patharawarin Timkul plays as villainess Selina.
Watching Asian movie feels like breathing fresh air, you actually will be watching entertaining movie, which was the norm, but somehow, it became rare nowadays..
Ok, the movie starts with, I don't know, some colonialists being attacked by local armed men, like, are the colonialists the bad guys or the good guys!!
Another fight where I don't who are the people fighting each others, the problem with that it kind of break immersion, like, it works fine as a clip, people would just watching it as a wrestling video, so they wouldn't care about the context, when it comes to movies, you need to understand who are fighting who, so you care about what's going on and have immersive experience watching the movie..
The fighting scene is awesome anyway, and I will probably get the context later in the movie, I just wished if there was a preparation or anticipation for it..
I love the transparent glass visual around 11 minutes, I miss when filmmakers were always experimenting and trying..
This is the last movie Michael B. made, he doesn't even have a photo on his IMDB page..
Another great fight scene around 14 minutes, the stunt work is incredible, but there's no building to it, it's like he sold the artifacts and a group of goons went after him, I didn't get a basic conversation of the one looking for the artifacts ordering his men to get him or that he need to get rid of him to hide something, the movie just jumped to the stunt work, which was incredible, like I get it's action movie, people watch it for the action scene and stunts, I'm not asking it to turn it into a drama, but just a basic context to what's going on..
And he just died, I only know the guy's name now that he died, ok, RIP, PumKum..
We first see the stunning Selina around 19 minutes..
Thai language sound way beautiful than English, or maybe I was traumatized by modern Hollywood that every time I hear someone speaking English all I feel is disgust and disdain!! I absolutely can't make myself watch a modern movie where the actors speaking English, the language sound horrible to me now, I can only watch movies I know was made before the followers of the moralistic realistic artist started destroying movies and TV shows..
Around 37 minutes, that was a fight that the movie was building towards, it worked on the characters to lead to it..
We finally see Selina again around 46 minutes, the heroes basically go after the villains, so the villains stopped their car, and the gorgeous villainess went out with her gun to stop them from going further..
Selina is absolutely breathtaking, it's unfair for the rest of humanity for someone to be this beautiful 😍😍😍😍.
Around 53 minutes the main villain, Patrick played by Russell Wong, sleeps with the villainess.. Wait a minute, I knew he looked familiar, Russell Wong also played the main villain in Romeo Must Die, of course he was on the movie's poster, what an amazing guy, he was basically the biggest name in the movie and played the main villain helping the movie to be more known and recognizable, you have to respect such great actor.. It's very rare nowadays to find that, it's extremely rare to find a famous actor that actually help to introduce people to unknown actor, you don't find this today, mostly with superstars they are egoistic, they can't stand criticism, they can't stand making new stars, and that's why we are in the sad state of entertainment..
Before saying anything, I love Jackie Chan, he's a legend, this man would be known in history books as one of the greatest people in human history, that being said, there are rumors that Rush Hour 4 being made, can Jackie Chan find someone talented enough to introduce them to the audience, and having Jackie as his father of a father-figure to him, and having some family dynamic, and still Jackie playing a big part of the movie while still giving enough space to the young actor that deserve a chance and need a push to be known to the wider audience? Because basically most superstars today started like that, Jean-Claude Van Damme got his big break playing Ivan Kraschinsky in No Retreat, No Surrender, Dolph Lundgren playing Ivan Drago in Rocky IV.. Now it seems that we don't have anyone standing out, we rarely get secondary character that people go "That character was fun to watch, I would watch this actor in movies to come", you don't have that, all you get plain forgettable characters, and even worse, movies that supposed to be good and attract large number of people in many times end disappointing, and people even don't watch something they were willing and wanting to watch to find it sanitized and tasteless, and not only effecting certain franchises, but a whole genre associated with such movies and destroy the expectation of getting a good movie even with stars who made great works, even with movie franchises with huge popularity, and eventually not a single industry would survive and bait and switch, manipulation, gas-lighting of the audiences will wear out, and people will just move on of what was once a form of art they used to enjoy one day..
I totally forgot, I was so into the movie I forgot that our villains face the heroes again around 1 hour 3 minutes, and chase the heroes with their car..
The last third of the movie is insanely good, it's like ending a meal with the most delicious bite to be left craving for more..
The final fight of our evil goddess starts around 1 hour 12 minutes..
WOW, that was fun, this movie had the potential to be a masterpiece if the conflict between the characters was made right, and it kind of ended the conflict around Gary by getting rid of the General and taking away the motive of his race against time to get the antidote, but as an action movie, it was awesome and fun time.
You can watch the stunning Selina's compilation here..