Okay, so I saw Kubot last last week and I've got a lot to say.
It got a lot of promotion, which may sound like a great move for a dumb movie. But no, it actually lived up to the hype.
Erik Matti, director of Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles and its sequel--which is this movie for all y'all who don't know--ditched the overuse of green screen from the first movie to spend almost all of its digital editing to the visual effects of the aswangs on the sequel.
Kubot, for those who don't know, is centered on Makoy(Dingdong Dantes) who, by luck(or bad luck, depending on how you think), encounters the aswangs for a second time due to Nieves(Lotlot de Leon), his relative's suspicion on her boss, Lex(Isabelle Daza)'s true identity.
First things first, it had the format of what seemed to be a feature-length TV episode, and literally picked up where Tiktik left off.
Lovi Poe, who play Sonya in the first film, may not be in Kubot, but her character still kinda is. But she gets replaced by a girl who looks like Mikael Daez and Lovi Poe's love child. But at a glance, you won't notice that, good job to the guys who gets the task of re-casting her.
The main conflict of this movie is Makoy being traumatized after seeing his "wife" get killed by the aswang right in front of him. Now, the story is well done, the effects are great, they did minimal green screen work in some scenes, especially the Pulupandan scene and probably some of Nieves and Makoy's house, but it turned out to be so good that you won't notice where the green screen is placed or how big the area actually is.
The movie has got a great balance of dark comedy, action, drama and adventure. The scenes the actually got me to laugh are when Nestor(Joey Marquez) suddenly did a back flip to evade the gunshots fired by the cops, the scene where one of the cops played by Bogart the Explorer used a cellphone app to prove that the CCTV footage was faked, the scene where Bogart the Cop just sees two different Nieves-es killing each other, and the scene where Tope(Jun Sabayton, an old favorite of mine) and Nestor did a fistfight.
But the only small flaw is at one point, it's got comedy-comedy-comedy-comedy scene after scene that it evaded us from the plot for a bit.
But still, it's worth checking out, it's got a 3.5 out of 5 stars for me. It's a good movie for everybody. But if you're a kid, just watch out for the foul language that you will hear.
Walang komento:
Mag-post ng isang Komento