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Alpha: The Right To Kill

2018

Brillante Mendoza

Allen Dizon, Elijah Filamor, Baron Geisler, Angela Cortez

5.5

134

Thriller Set against the backdrop of the Philippines Government's crackdown on illegal drugs, a SWAT-led police force launches an operation to arrest Abel, one of the biggest druglords in Manila. Police Officer Espino and Elijah, a small-time pusher turned informant, provide the intelligence for the operation, which quickly escalates into a violent and heavely-armed confrontation in the slums between the SWAT and Abel's gang. Before the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jonathan Holland The Hollywood Reporter	"High-impact, but shallow (...) Little insider light is shed on what is effectively a massive scandal (...) Carefully staged and dramatically filmed"
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Troy Espiritu’s script is taut and to the point, and gives the impression of being grounded in hard research"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"[It] covers familiar ground, but does so with a potent, purposeful stride (...) [It] is Mendoza’s most propulsive and engrossing variation on his favored themes in some time"

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