Well Go U.S.A. announced
this past week that Filipino writer/director Erik Matti’s sensational crime
thriller, On the Job, will be heading to DVD and Blu-ray on Feb. 18.
The ARR comes in at 144
days and the limited domestic theatrical run generated ticket sales of
$164,620.
If this foreign language
import isn’t remade into a big-budget, big-star American blockbuster than it is
only because the powers that be are either asleep or brain dead. This is one sweet — and cleverly twisted — mystery/thriller! And what makes it even more compelling … it
is actually based on a prison scandal that took place in the Philippines.
The film opens with the
noise and celebration of a street festival.
Dancing goes hand-in-hand with gunplay as two assassins emerge from the clutter
of the crowd to execute — for all to see — a high-level drug dealer.
We only come to realize
as the story progresses that the hitmen, Mario "Tatang" Maghari (Joel
Torre) and Daniel Benitez (Gerald Anderson) are inmates, who periodically
“vanish” from prison to carry out their assignments. It’s the perfect cover!!!
Indeed, the police
investigation — headed by Sergeant Acosta (Joey Marquez) — is stymied by the
mysterious disappearance of the assassins.
Where are they hiding? Who are
they? Who do they work for … and why
the killings?
His investigation is
further complicated by the arrival of a green-behind-the-ears federal
investigator named Francis (Piolo Pascual), who may be carrying water for those
involved in the scheme.
It’s complicated. It’s clever … and it is loaded with action!
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