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BuyBust [Sub: Eng]
All the dirty policemen were slaughtered after raids on drug gangs, and only the activist Nina Manigan survived. Once again, Nina will enter an official mission to confront the guerrillas following the police raid and attack them in the most dangerous civilian neighborhoods to the south. It will look more violent and bloody.
November 28, 1984 in Bicol, Philippines
March 23, 1976 in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Luzon, Philippines
July 31, 2018
Uneven but brawling and bracing Filipino riff on "The Raid," a drug bust gone epically wrong.July 16, 2018
Resolute performances give a vital human quality to a film that is otherwise as brazenly cynical as it is brilliantly executed.August 07, 2018
Some of the sequences are crazy in construction, but few make good on their promise of showing more than easy blocks and arm-twisting flips.July 20, 2018
Tthe movie makes potent points about the collateral damage wreaked by the Philippines' war on drugs, as the residents of lower-class communities like Gracia suffer and die thanks to the cop-vs.-criminal conflicts playing out in their midst.August 08, 2018
It feels like the film is trying to have it both ways, turning violence into a joyride even as it condemns it.August 02, 2018
The 47-year-old director...is certainly quite clever to use the chaos, the unbelievable sequences in the film as a metaphor for his anti-establishment sentiment.August 10, 2018
When "BuyBust" finally combusts, it's often simultaneously spectacular and disturbing.July 18, 2018
Goes beyond easy moral binaries to highlight how Duterte's warped worldview has made monsters out of everyone from the police to the peddlers to the ordinary people in between...July 17, 2018
A superbly executed action film about drug squad members fighting for their lives in a maze-like Manila slum that resembles nothing less than hell on earth.August 09, 2018
Featuring one villain in leopard pants and another in a bathrobe, "BuyBust" is surprisingly funny for a movie that's basically a massacre in progress.August 10, 2018
So often bogged down by pseudo-naturalistic long takes and generic cop/robber power dynamics that it makes one wonder what the point of watching such a film is.