Review Movies " Maria (2019 ) Tagalog

Maria (2019) Tagalog Movies

Movie Synopsis:

When a former BlackRose cartel assassin deliberately betrays them by refusing to complete her mission, the cartel orders her execution. Unbeknownst to them, she fakes her own death and is able to create a new life of her own. When the cartel discovers she is alive, the hunter becomes the hunted as she fights to get revenge on those who took her new life away from her.

Special Movies:

Cristine Reyes, Germaine De Leon, KC Montero, Ronnie Lazaro, Freddie Webb, Guji Lorenzana

Release : 2019-03-07

Country : Philippines

Runtime : 89 min.

Stars : Cristine Reyes, Germaine De Leon, KC Montero, Ronnie Lazaro, Freddie Webb, Guji Lorenzana

Production Co : Viva Films, BlackOps Studios Asia, Psyops8

The movie starts off with Maria going ham infiltrating a mansion and killing everyone inside. The very end of that shows a mother and her child crying and blacks out to the sound of a gunshot.

It takes a while for Pedring Lopez’s Maria to find its beat and punch, but once it finally makes full use of its ludicrously lawless reimagining of Manila as stage for its string of stylized action scenes, it becomes relentlessly entertaining, proving that there is much potential for an actioner centering on a slighted housewife with a secret past on a rampage.

Never mind its boilerplate opener which has a shrouded assassins break into a home, beat up brutes, and murder a family.

That teaser of an action sequence, more deflated than daring with most its spectacles wasted as they are draped in shadows, is merely serviceable. While it is underwhelming, it still sets the central mystery behind the titular character (Cristine Reyes) who is one of the masked murderers but is curiously next seen as a doting mother dutifully fetching her young daughter from school so that they can spend the night together with her idealistic husband.

Maria needlessly spends quite a while shaping this world of domestic bliss. In between terse introductions of the film’s slew of sadistic villains, the film crawls with its by-the-numbers portrayal of the not-so-perfect but still euphoric family life of the protagonist. It is almost as if Lopez is attempting for some relevance, setting his tale in the midst of a senatorial election that is riddled with scandals. 

It becomes very clear that Maria intends to focus on this not-so-unique but still compelling conceit of having brutality spring out of the most unlikely places, which in its case, is a comely woman whose most urgent concern seems to be her desire to have her husband spend more time with her family.