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[Drunk Monk]

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.