How many other Philippine movies have the same themes and such? It started out with a good premise -- the overseas Filipino worker in Dubai -- and just degenerated into formulaic and overplayed melodrama.
Quite a few crazy and unrealistic things happen in this film. The younger brother finally joins his older brother in the UAE, then falls in love with his older bro's part-time girlfriend. Then he gets her PREGNANT and his older brother just sits there calm and stuff. I highly doubt that any guy would just be calm, even if it was his brother.
The movie would have been more interesting had it dealt more with living in Dubai instead of the workers' personal problems. Filipinos have a tough time in the Mideast but the film dealt nothing with it.
The worst part was when the movie just becomes a tear fest of people crying, apologizing, saying saucy stuff and the like. Then the brother Raffy starts a nationalistic speech about how great it is to be Filipino. There's nothing wrong with being proud of who you are but the way he said it was very corny and awkward. Speeches like that make people forget the real problems of Philippine society -- corruption, class system, extreme poverty, runaway birth rate and others.
Screw this overrated, overdone and over-hyped movie. If you want to see a movie about the overseas Filipino worker, skip this one and try "Anak" with Vilma Santos and "Caregiver" with Sharon Cuneta.
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