Good points:
What I like about
the Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga story, how they executed their production setting.
It looked like they did not come short to their budget. The black and white
cinematography looked fine also and it did not sacrifice the other elements in
each scenes. I appreciate also the scenes wherein, they put it on slow motion
and it made the scenes to be more highlighted.
Bad points:
What I did
not like about the movie was the action scenes itself. Almost every action
scene there would be guns being fired. Personally, I don’t like hearing
gunshots so somewhat I got a little paranoid while watching the movie on those
parts (forgive me for being subjective here).
Also, some
scenes which included Asiong kissing his wife looked misplaced and would have
been better if it was just a smack on the lips, nothing more. Another thing,
E.R. Ejercito lacked more in acting and projecting how Asiong really is.
My rating:
5/10
