Sanctuary (1998)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Sanctuary |
| Original title | Sanctuary |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Tibor Takács |
| script | Michael Stokes |
| production | Andy Emilio |
| music | Norman Orenstein |
| camera | George Mooradian |
| cut | Evan Landis |
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Sanctuary (in German: "Refuge" ) is a Canadian action thriller from 1998. It was directed by the Hungarian Tibor Takács , who specializes in science fiction and horror films . This film follows in the arms of death ( Deadly Past , 1995) and Dark Assassin ( Sabotage , 1996), the third collaboration with the director martial arts -Star Mark Dacascos .
action
After the violent robbery of his mother, the ten-year-old Luke Kovak comes into the care of the secret agent Commander Dyson, who for years drills him with other orphans to become an indoctrinated killer of a specially formed death squad within the CIA . This unofficial and high-tech command unit called DDA carries out semi-silly operations on behalf of the government that also result in human sacrifices. After an unsuccessful blackmail attempt in which the agent Fortier is killed, the loyal adolescent realizes that his foster father not only pursues patriotic and altruistic, but also personal goals to maintain his own power, for which he even willingly sacrifices his recruited "children". The frustrated Kovak, following his conscience, quits the service and goes into hiding with secret documents (with incriminating video material) in the safe refuge of the Catholic Church .
Under the pseudonym John Connelly, he settles as a priest in Chicago, where he is passionately committed to the social issues of his community when, after three years, a photo in the daily newspaper suddenly becomes his undoing. He is exposed! He only realizes this when his former companion and girlfriend Rachel Malcolm visits him to warn him about Dyson's henchmen. The secret organization has not given up the search and is trying to kill him. With Rachel, who breaks away from the DDA in the further course of the plot, the renegade initially successfully evades the hordes of killers. When innocent people living on the fringes of society are massacred by Dyson's killer units because they suspect Rachel and Luke to be there, Father John, alias ex-agent Kovak, decides no longer to stand by and in turn kills some of the attackers. At least now he realizes that he has to face his foster father and mentor Dyson; almost single-handedly, he kills Dyson's last loyal fighters.
At the end of the film, the deeply religious Kovac hands over the extortionate video material to the media, so that MacGuire, favored by Dyson, has to give up his political ambitions. For Dyson's DDA organization, this means the end; a few moments later he therefore chooses suicide. Kovac himself separates from Rachel and follows his calling to be a priest. In Rome the sinful clergyman is heard before a church body that is supposed to judge his priestly activity. The members surprisingly turn out to be a secret society of the sacred Order of the Holy Cross and ask him, Father Luke, to join the order. To do this, they hand the shocked ex-agent a weapon.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films believes that the thriller “ takes up the well-known subject of state-sanctioned vigilante justice” and “has not much to offer except for effective action entertainment” .
Web links
- Sanctuary in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Sanctuary. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .