Angkor (2018)

I don't know the actress portraying nang'ek in this one, and she's 30. Either she started her career only now or she was hired in some special budget thing. Pra'ek is in his thirties too, but of course him we know already. Now before she meets him, she seems close with 'The Lips' (you know who I mean by this nickname;) and Nathakron Traikitsyavet's captain Kampan is showering her with attentions, too (while throwing his typical "mean stare" to any other male). Interesting thing is Winai Kraibutr looks so much like Anuchit Sapunpohng I would thought it's him, only a couple years older. Kinda weird one of them playing father of the nang'ek, the other boyfriend of the nang'ek (okay, a close friend... personally I found that a pitty, the way I saw it she didn't need to bother traveling across the border for Ohm Atshar and could happily stayed with The Lips:))

But soon all hell is to break loose for whatever reason and she must flee away. I didn't care for the whole action plot to be honest, but the nang'ek knew how to use a gun and wasn't afraid to use it. Okay, then... Besides the outpour of action scenes that feel like random and without any apparent reason, this lakorn has one more problem, and that is the FANTASY element. First I thought, if the nang'ek really is regularly going to turn into a ridiculous "tigress face" using some bad visual effect, I'll bid this soon a bye bye. Therefore, it pleasantly surprised me there were whole long episodes where that element got completely skipped. I was afraid this would be unwatchable but that was NOT the case. Basically it's only at times somebody tries to rape her that Angkor turns into a tigress:) Or... hurt the one she loves.

The main couple gets together very soon... Main character dies after couple episodes, too... On the other hand, we have a bad guy who is like REALLY bad and pra'ek has a perfect opportunity to kill him but of course he doesn't do it so we keep having him (and there's more than 1 bad guy, we can see women being abducted every day and stuff... but even when several bad guys fight each other so it's a win-win whoever dies, no one does). New characters get introduced and join the main group who are neither fun nor eye candy and while I had nothing much against this series, I was not enjoying it that much because it dragged a lot for me... Too much traveling through forest, maybe? 1st kiss is in episode 10 and it's a modest peck. I am dropping this as it's very loong screen time with nothing much to look forward to. (I think you can calculate how much time I've already spent with this:)

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