11-25-2018, 12:58 PM
Fresh ultravi from the Philippines. A PDEA team get lured into a labyrinthian shantytown into a drug kingpin's trap and have to fight their way out. After a few minutes of set up, the rest is just fight scenes. The poor folk living in the shantytown attack them in droves, more like a zombie horde. Would a mob of people armed with clubs, shivs, molotovs and the occasional firearm go up against full-auto armed trained officers? Sure, why not? Most of this is shot in the dark, in the rain, with weird neon light. It's hard to see the choreography, but it's a lot of shanking. Repeated shanking. Shank fest. There's some good stuff - not crisp but muddy, rolling in mud and wet. Gritty and brutal. There's an extraordinary single-shot sequence towards the end. I wouldn't mind seeing lead Anne Curtis, in another actioner.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse