It’s amazing how a historical film got into the Metro Manila Film Fest and won. There are so few of this kind of Filipino films today that even I, a historian, could not resist to watch. I can forgive any Filipino historical film made today no matter how low in quality since Philippine cinema has not yet risen to that state it used to have during the 50s to 60s. So here I was watching this film last December and I was really surprised at the quality of the film. Except for the bad acting of the lead actor, all the scenes were almost perfectly executed, and reminded me of The Godfather. Although much have been said about the inherent machismo of the film, it could not be avoided since at the time, such machismo was evident in that generation. Maybe the only thing I didn’t like was how the film was dedicated to Asiong Salonga in the end, as though he was worthy of being emulated. Other than that, I’m still hoping this won’t be the last of our recently made historical films.

I’m currently going LSS over the OST of the film. :)

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