Alas. Ta-ha-ha-ha--
Evil laugh. Hehehehehe. 'Hitman' misses!
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| Get this! Cesar Montano plays a cold and chilling Ben. Oh, look at that face! He might eat you...or...something. |
Cesar Montano is playing Ben, an ex-hit man out of business for at least seven years who is forced to take all costs to avenge the murder of his family when his bosses attempt to get him back on the loop.
Dubious, I entered the cinema. Boom. This looks interesting. Let's erase all doubts. Okay...Good actors: Phillip Salvador and Ricky Davao. Film also features an unavoidable aging Cesar Montano and a newbie chick, Sam Pint--
--Oh, wait! This ain't good.
While the editing is clunky and sloppy: having the advancement of the gears that are used to shoot the film with the old school Pinoy action convention collided, not a good idea, the film struggles to basically show what they intend to show. It's such a misfortune to have these bad lucks happening, alas. *still laughing maniacally.
The screenplay is no good too! After a sequence wherein Ben is gone coma; miraculously surviving a headshot, the movie slid out a handful of promises that are, well, affirmative to the myth of the barrio, broken. We learned that he fights for his memory (trying hard, ouch! lakas maka-Bourne Identity diba??) but the film seemed not to be generous about emphasizing that.
Even the romance like the movie's premise is painfully shadowed. Choppily edited and clumsily choreographed, 'Hitman' also had its moments. Or a singular noun moment. In a scene in which a bullet slow mos, and everything else in the captured scene stops while tilting the camera to some surprisingly interesting angles.
'Hitman' suggests a downright bashing film. Not triumphant, not win-win but it's such a please to learn that there is someone trying--something Cesar Montano is commendable about. And no, I'm not going to stop laughing.
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