This movie brings back fond memories of when I was stationed back down in the good ol' PI. It has all the classic archetypes here. The aging bar girl and her cherry younger sister, the horny young GIs having the time of their lives with their LBFMs. This tells the story of a naive young soldier who gets trapped into a no win situation and so fights back heroically with all his skills, and goes down in a blaze of glory. Things start going bad for our hero when one afternoon he takes a barfine to the beach, but after taking his money she neglects to tell him she's cherry and once things start heating up she changes her mind and starts screaming rape. Confused because he thinks he just paid for a prostitute, he stops immediately but nobody is willing to believe his side of the story. So because of this little misunderstanding the gold-digging Filipina villians of the movie decide to take advantage and squeeze him (for possible ransom money? gangster payoffs? the movies is unclear about this plot point). He is thrown in jail without a trial for harassment against in his words "a bar girl with an attitude" and is about to go before the kangaroo court when he hears that on top of this, he's also charged with murder stemming from an incident in which he accidently kills a seedy criminal in self-defense. Valiantly he seizes a gun from the policeman Santiago and makes a dashing escape from his captors. In the jungle, he slowly plots his revenge for justice. A corrupt American politician is coming to town, and realizing that his time is marked, the hero decides to gun him down to do one final good deed in the world and make his death meaningful. Overall a good movie that perfectly captures the spirit of the Philippines and its people.
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mnonyobidness30 April 2002
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jacob-4512 May 2003Conceived by amateurs executed by ABS CBN known for screwing up, good foreign actors given appalling lines by hack script writers, teamed up with the worst of Filipino talent not the best goes to make a bad movie. This movie together others produced by Mike Sellars have done massive damage to the Philippine film industry, already in turmoil and decline.
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msn2029 March 2006I had the chance to be there when the movie was filmed in Subic Bay, I recently was reading the script again and I realized things I didn't realize when it was made. This is a movie where you need to open your eyes and heart, some people take it serious but you need to realize "How it was then" and thus is why one can find a lot of issues about females. Now it didn't portray the women as being bad, So one can say that this is a balanced movie. Some females might get offended but normally those are the ones who live a different lifestyle and made find it hard to adapt to how the navy is. For the budget was not high but made it work with what they had. And it made everyone I know happy,sad,and fruitful. I like the fact that the Michael Sellers made the effort to get production with the aircraft carrier. clever. Everything shown was actually in a building that existed, unlike other movies they have to make the scene, here again Clever mike used natural resources to make it come together. Wonderful movie just remember open your thoughts.
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The sailors and airmen of the U.S. bases in the Philippines at first thought the Filipinas they met in the bars there were nothing more than little brown sex toys. Filipinas, however, have a way of getting under a man's skin. Between 1972 and 1992 23,000 of these little brown sex toys became wives of American servicemen returned home with them, and are now living the American dream as middle class wives and mothers. One of the protagonists in this movie must choose between his Filipina sweetheart and his cheerleader American girlfriend.
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prime_boy2729 June 2001The main villain's performance wasn't that bad. The Philippine cast was quite ok especially Nanette Medved and Raymond Bagatsing. The missing points are: the storyline, the photography and the somewhat boring performances of some of the American actors. I'd give it a 4/10 rating.