On an official mission as part of the mission of activist Nina Manigan, an anti-drug activist. Entered an official mission to confront the men of drugs following the raid on the dirty police and the whole group was slaughtered. Angry civilians are turning to their team, there is a siege between civilians and gangs, and perhaps it will be bloody.
So often bogged down by pseudo-naturalistic long takes and generic cop/robber power dynamics that it makes one wonder what the point of watching such a film is.
Tthe movie makes potent points about the collateral damage wreaked by the Philippines' war on drugs, as the residents of lower-class communities like Gracia suffer and die thanks to the cop-vs.-criminal conflicts playing out in their midst.
A superbly executed action film about drug squad members fighting for their lives in a maze-like Manila slum that resembles nothing less than hell on earth.
Goes beyond easy moral binaries to highlight how Duterte's warped worldview has made monsters out of everyone from the police to the peddlers to the ordinary people in between...
The 47-year-old director...is certainly quite clever to use the chaos, the unbelievable sequences in the film as a metaphor for his anti-establishment sentiment.