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Eagan U It's like The Raid, but worse in every way. More often than not, action sequences are full of choppy cuts that hides seemingly good choreography (from what could be seen provided the choppy cuts). To be fair, the action gets better later in the movie and the set-pieces are great all-throughout. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/30/24 Full Review Emilliano Jr S Hollywood feels for a local Filipino action film. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Meh...it passed the time. It's basically a remake of the superior Indonesian film The Raid. The acting is passable, but the action didn't convince me. The action didn't look visceral or hard-hitting; especially from the main actress who's fight scenes were pretty terrible. I don't know what was going on with the musical score as well, it was all over the place, inconsistent and didn't gel with what was happening on screen. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Obviously POLITICALY MOTIVATED MOVIE.. Its the most discustingly ignoramus film i have ever seen. It branded our country to whoch our first conqueror the RCC wanted to keep this country look like. This movie made me really sad. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Surprising good and action packed Filipino film about betrayal, corruption, and the drug underworld. This film is violent and frenetic but that gives you a cinematic sense of the drug underworld in South East Asia. Anne Curtis leads an ensemble cast of unknowns to me, who are really good in this film about a drug raid gone bad in an attempt to catch a high level cartel under lord. Curtis' brings gravitas to her performance as a suspicious soldier whose prior unit was ambushed due to a double cross. This film is chaotic but not by accident, or by poor cinematography- the opposite. It is well filmed and well directed. The pacing is engaging. If you like the feel of Gareth Evans, The Raid, then you will enjoy this one. There is a lot of gunplay and fighting, but not martial arts. Unlike Maria, another Filipino action film I liked very much, this one has very goof fight choreography and fight cinematography and it makes a big difference. It is violent. It is subtitled. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Late R The cinematography is pretty nice in places and the cast is solid, but jeez-louise, it doesn't get a lot else right. The general setup meant it could have been a Filipino ‘The Raid' style film which might have been fun, but unfortunately, there's just too much that goes awry: the characters are extremely thinly written so that you don't actually care for any of them; the fight choreography is atrocious, silly and lacks any realism where most of the performers look like they have no idea what they're doing; and just as badly, even if they did know, you wouldn't have been able to see much of it because the camerawork is all over the place. Those last two are a real problem considering how much of the film consists of just that. To top it all off, it's too long and feels longer because you have to suffer through all of the aforementioned. Ultimately, it's just a badly filmed massacre that is difficult to enjoy which means that ‘Buy Bust' is a bit of a bust. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/17/20 Full Review Read all reviews

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