THIS MOVIE doesn’t merit spoiler alerts, we all (sort of) know what happened. In 2015, 44 members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Special Action Force (SAF) were killed by terrorist groups in Mindanao.
The movie’s first few minutes are given to slain SAF members bidding their families goodbye as they head off to their dangerous mission, the capture of international terrorist Zulkifli Abdhir, known by his alias, Marwan. Afterwards, their fate hinted at, the film continues with meetings of the board of inquiry established by the PNP-CIDG determining the causes for the bloodbath on Jan. 25. This board was headed by then-CIDG chief Gen. Benjamin Magalong , played by Edu Manzano.
It’s difficult to touch on the political implications in the movie, and especially since the case is still up in the courts. The lawyer representing the families of the deceased SAF 44, Ferdinand Topacio, also happens to be the film’s Executive Producer, through Borracho Film Production .
We also found it hard to take the battle scenes seriously: rock music plays in the more decisive segments of the battle, and it seems as if it were a boys’ day out, instead of the tragedy that ended their lives. PJ Abellana, playing fallen SAF Team Leader Col. Pabalinas, realizes that he is out of ammo. Knowing he’s about to be killed, he comes out of the grass with guns blazing, shooting out his final blasts of ammo, giving a primal scream before his death.
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