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Metro Manila

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Oscar flees from a life of poverty and moves with his family to Manila. They fall victim to the hardened locals until Oscar finds work with an armored car company.
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Critics Consensus

Infusing thriller tropes with a searing glimpse of modern-day corruption, Metro Manila is just as gripping as any action blockbuster -- and twice as thought-provoking.

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Radheyan Simonpillai NOW Toronto 09/19/2014
2/5
The painstaking set-up for the heist is both admirable in its detail and off-putting in the slick way it exploits poverty, reducing social drama to a genre gimmick. Go to Full Review
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail 09/19/2014
2.5/4
Proof that you can't go wrong with the same old story. Go to Full Review
Linda Barnard Toronto Star 09/18/2014
3/4
As bleak as a Dickens novel, yet twinned with a contemporary heist drama, Metro Manila straddles two worlds in telling the story of a desperate family man who moves from a small farm to the city. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 09/04/2019
Metro Manila sports some excellent visual sequences, and manages to abstain from veering into overly soapy melodramatics... At its core, the film features a dynamite lead performance from Macapagal. Go to Full Review
Daniel Green CineVue 03/02/2019
3/5
Refreshing to see Metro Manila laud the little guy... This admirable approach is galvanised further by a quietly compelling performance from lead actor Macapagal. Go to Full Review
Jared Mobarak The Film Stage 02/28/2016
B+
The tone is much bleaker [then Cashback], though, showing his evolution as a filmmaker and person to embrace the world's cynicism with a lens no longer tinted by fun quirk. Go to Full Review
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JJJJJJ J 11/21/2023 This film delivers an engaging enough narrative who's ending gives it a reason to exists. The main negative of this film is that the main plot is often not emotionally engaging, and though it is enough to keep the story movie is not very powerful it is only at the end where anything is really said. I will also play that I felt sometimes as if the negative migrant experience was taken to the extreme with every negative that could occur, occurring. It was a bit over the top. But overall this was a good movie, its just the beginning and middle of the film could have done more then me, maybe built up and worked with more films then it did. If you think the plot sounds interesting you will likely enjoy though your overall takeaway of the film will very much rely on your opinion of the ending. See more 04/29/2022 Dark and darker. It shows the reality of the Philippines and not just blue sea and islands. The slums, the suffering and the corruption. See more 04/14/2017 excellent Filipino thriller. family move to Manila to earn extra money and the husband gets a job in security but gets inadvertently involved in a heist. See more 11/30/2016 Pas le plus original des films See more 06/04/2016 Glad I randomly came across this movie on Netflix. Wow. See more 05/11/2016 This is a film that each and every Filipino should watch - not because it's patriotic, but because it's a wake-up call to those unaware of the corruption that surrounds Metro Manila. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Oscar flees from a life of poverty and moves with his family to Manila. They fall victim to the hardened locals until Oscar finds work with an armored car company.
Director
Sean Ellis
Producer
Sean Ellis, Mathilde Charpentier
Screenwriter
Sean Ellis, Frank E. Flowers
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Filipino
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 25, 2017
Runtime
1h 54m