ONE WORD REVIEW: Slow
SUMMARY: An independent, foreign, gritty attempt to make a repetitive walking tour of the Philippines seem exciting.
DETAILS: Adam is a Filipino-American who returns to the Philippines for his father’s funeral, but upon his arrival he receives a phone call that leads him into a dark world of Muslim extremism and Jihad. The film is slow and repetitive, but given that it was made gorilla style, run-n-gun, probably without a single release form, I will give this film 2.5 out of 5. I like the independent, can-do spirit that the film embodies so well. We see plenty of the day-to-day reality, but I would have loved to have seen some breathtaking scenery of the Philippines.
SCORE: 2.5 out of 5
RELEASE: 2005
RATING: NR
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