The only good acting from anyone in this film was done by Anne Curtis (in the lead role as Nina Manigan) and Levi Ignacio who plays grey haired bad guy Chongki. Most of the cast are extra's who, it appears to me, have never done any film work before and they were all truly dreadful.
The plot is a good idea (I think the idea for it may have come from a video game I remember playing a few years back) and it could be based upon certain police drug enforcement actions in some of the Latin American countries like Brazil, Columbia etc (along with the corrupt police idea also; it is rife in the 2 countries mentioned). Its main let down though is that there is no unity with the Filipino drug squad and, the squad leader has no proper control over them as their discipline is totally non existent. Lines are delivered in complete lackluster fashion which is also the same way the action is delivered.
The fight choreography is embarrassing and either the stunt team is very bad or there was no stunt team and the director/producers just used clueless extras to keep filming costs low. Every fight scene was done in extremely lame visuals with the protagonists/fighters plainly obvious that they are pulling their punches, kicks and stabbing actions etc. At the film start you see the drug squad training in "Killing Room" technique (which was so bad by the way that they would have been all dead in a real life situation) and in unarmed combat; the latter being very mediocre. However! During the many, many hand to hand combat moments in the film they repeatedly got their butts kicked which, led to most of the squad unit being dead by the time the film had been running an hour! Running time was too much also...1hr:25mins would have been more than enough rather than the 2hr:07min dragged out flop audiences were given!
All in all a very poor film. The Filipino film industry schools need to make watching/studying the techniques of action directors, like John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, a few of the well known Chinese/South Korean/Japanese directors, a part of their curriculum and, then mix it with another 5-10 years of practice to get some better results. Go watch somebody paint their garden fence and watch it dry...you will have a far better time!
Also! I don't know/see the reason why the character portrayed by Anne (Curtis) had to cut off her long hair into a short chin length Bob for her part? She could have worn a wig or just tied her hair up or, plaited it.
The plot is a good idea (I think the idea for it may have come from a video game I remember playing a few years back) and it could be based upon certain police drug enforcement actions in some of the Latin American countries like Brazil, Columbia etc (along with the corrupt police idea also; it is rife in the 2 countries mentioned). Its main let down though is that there is no unity with the Filipino drug squad and, the squad leader has no proper control over them as their discipline is totally non existent. Lines are delivered in complete lackluster fashion which is also the same way the action is delivered.
The fight choreography is embarrassing and either the stunt team is very bad or there was no stunt team and the director/producers just used clueless extras to keep filming costs low. Every fight scene was done in extremely lame visuals with the protagonists/fighters plainly obvious that they are pulling their punches, kicks and stabbing actions etc. At the film start you see the drug squad training in "Killing Room" technique (which was so bad by the way that they would have been all dead in a real life situation) and in unarmed combat; the latter being very mediocre. However! During the many, many hand to hand combat moments in the film they repeatedly got their butts kicked which, led to most of the squad unit being dead by the time the film had been running an hour! Running time was too much also...1hr:25mins would have been more than enough rather than the 2hr:07min dragged out flop audiences were given!
All in all a very poor film. The Filipino film industry schools need to make watching/studying the techniques of action directors, like John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, a few of the well known Chinese/South Korean/Japanese directors, a part of their curriculum and, then mix it with another 5-10 years of practice to get some better results. Go watch somebody paint their garden fence and watch it dry...you will have a far better time!
Also! I don't know/see the reason why the character portrayed by Anne (Curtis) had to cut off her long hair into a short chin length Bob for her part? She could have worn a wig or just tied her hair up or, plaited it.