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On the Job

2013

Erik Matti

Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, Rayver Cruz, Shaina Magdayao ...

6.2

97

Thriller. Action On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the murders. As they get caught in a web of machination of corrupt government officials, their jobs lead them on a head-on collision against each other with their loved ones as collateral damage.

	Author	Review
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Even at its most incomprehensible, the propulsive thriller "On the Job" is never less than arresting."	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"On the Job" is a sturdy and sophisticated crime drama from the Philippines that takes a pretty gruesome situation and enriches its presentation with lots of human detail."	POS
United States	Inkoo Kang Los Angeles Times	"Despite the relative flatness of his characters — their relationships to one another are more archetypal than particular — the film is as heartbreaking as it is heart-stopping."	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"It’s a provocative premise, and one that manages to go beyond the usual themes of the crime genre. Too bad, then, it’s forced to share screen time with a humdrum and occasionally heavy-handed police procedural."	NEU
Canada	Peter Howell Toronto Star	"A Filipino crime thriller that makes up in character development and action shots what it lacks in narrative innovation (...) More than anything On the Job plays like a calling card for Hollywood gigs for Matti"	POS

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