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Jenny (KC Concepcion), a mall promodizer, hitches a ride on a seaplane with stuggling pilot, Benjie (Richard Gutierrez), to attend a wedding in Palawan. On the way to the wedding, Benjie and Jenny find themselves not getting along. But when the aircraft crashes into an isolated island, the two are forced to deal with each other. They become friends and their adventure together ends up in a kiss that is supposed to be innocent and harmless. The kiss however brings… More >>
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This is the first Filipino movie I’ve ever seen.
I’m only commenting on the part with the two main characters. I don’t even want to get into their families and snarky gf/bf.
I thought Richard and KCs romance was sweet and simple. I do not mean that in a negative way. I thought it was refreshing. I’m getting weary of how “every” American TV show and movie has to portray the main girl as super-human woman who can do “everything” all by herself plus she is a member of peta and she is so green she will wrestle you to the ground and scratch your eyes out if you so much as pull a weed out of a vegetable garden, so on and so on.
It was nice to see a girl who actually needed a hero for a little while there. She wasn’t swooning from one end of the movie to the other, but “Oh horror of horrors don’t tell Hollywood” she needed a hero for 24-hours one time.
American TV shows and movies also like to make the main guy some greasy couch potato who wouldn’t hit a lick at a snake. It was nice to see a guy who got up on his hind legs and went off into the forest to find food and wood to burn to make sure they’d be okay until the rescuers could get there.
I felt like this movie portrayed “longing” between the two main characters, and made the viewers also long for the two of them to get together. If it had been a real-life scenario, they probably should have broken up with their gf/bf sooner, but it wasn’t real life, so I would imagine the writer/director was probably trying to build the longing by making you wonder if they’d get together or not. There was at least one kiss between them but that is as far as it went physically for those of you who want to know that.
My only negative was that I had to read the entire thing in subtitles. I wanted to see their facial expressions, but I had to read instead.
They don’t have the best actors in the world, but bless them; they don’t nag you to death with political correctness in every sentence. I imagine their acting will improve with practice, but the only cure for America’s ubiquitous political correctness is the off switch.
Rating: 4 / 5