2005 · action · martial-arts · muay-thai
The Protector
Directed by Prachya Pinkaew1h 45m2005
A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.
Our read: The Protector (2005) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · martial-arts · muay-thai entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / martial-arts, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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