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Without divulging the plot or the ending, I want to share my thoughts about Jeeja Yanin, so that people will know what they are getting. Her father died when she was young, 11 or 12, and given that she was a gold medalist in Tae Kwon Do as a child who had achieved 3rd level Dan, (equivalent to Black Belt) she helped support her mother and brother by becoming an instructor of TKD at age 14. She auditioned at age 18 for a small part in Born To Fight, and was noticed by filmmaker Prachya Pinkaew, and action stunt trainer Panna Rittikrai, when they decided she was special enough to make an entire film for. This girl quit University studies and trained for this film for four years. She trained under Rittikrai, the mentor of Tony Jaa, and Jaa himself. She trained for 2 years in preparation and 2 years while making the film. She also studied the symptoms and behavior of autistic children, staying with them and working with them, and reading up on everything she could in available literature and film on the subject, including Rain Man, etc. In addition to this, she had to overcome fear of heights (you'll see why) and subjected herself to constant injury, including life risking stunts. Watch the movie and enjoy her spectacular debut, and remember that you were there when a star was born. Enjoy the fact that she is a very special person, who put heart and soul into making the movie.

There actually was an assassination Bureau, centered in London, steered from behind the scenes by the Monarchy, British Intelligence, and the Fabian Society. Its operational head was the exiled Russian prince, Peter Kropotkin, who fled Russia, and then Switzerland, and then suspiciously escaped from jail in Paris to find asylum in England. He was on the lam for his role in the assassination of Czar Alexander II, and as a leader of the "People's Will" anarchist organization, he was under a death sentence. He was the international head of the anarchist movement, replacing Bakunin, and steered the organization which assassinated 19 heads of state, Kings, Queens, Princes, Dukes and Archdukes, Prime ministers, and a President, during the years preceding WWI. Kropotkin was the controller of Emma Goldman (who lived with Kropotkin for a time in London) whose disciple, Czolgosz, shot McKinley. Kropotkin was with Emma Goldman when she met with Czolgosz at Jane Addams "Hull House" in Chicago in the week before Czolgosz made his way to Buffalo to shoot McKinley. King Umberto of Italy was shot the year before by Antonio Bresci, member of Goldman's anarchist chapter in Paterson NJ. Goldman met with Bresci weeks before he went to Italy to shoot the King, financed by money raised by the members of the chapter. Go through the history of the political assassinations during the run up to WWI, mostly done by anarchists, supposedly acting alone. It was all organized by British Intelligence out of London, directed by Kropotkin and his networks.

There are many allusions to the actual real story in the film, for those, who, like a previous reviewer who touched on this, actually know some history.