barwins Reviews

Deceit (2023–2024)

It started great, then it went downhill

[5/10 · 20 November 2023]

I was hooked after watching the initial episodes. But after the 5th episode, it all went downhill, and I just forced myself to watch the rest, which took me more than a week to finish the last 9 episodes or the complete season. The initial plot was captivating and very interesting, but once the twist of the story was revealed, everything that came next was so predictable (and silly). I thought it was another quality, smart, and entertaining Philippine produced series, just like HBO's "On the Job" and Netflix's "Amo" but no, it's not. This one is subpar or substandard compared to that two, The ending was anticlimactic and ridiculous. Glad it was over.

The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

Waste of time and money

[3/10 · 3 October 2021]

Very bad. Watch it and so you'll know, and maybe you'll rate it much lower.

One More Rainbow (2020)

A movie that will touch your heart

[7/10 · 1 March 2021]

Story is predictable but it's original and believable. The casts in the film were great. A story that happens only in the Philippines. Well recommended.

The Little Things (2021)

Denzel's worst movie ever

[5/10 · 31 January 2021]

Malek's role as a detective is so unrealistic. When you have a very bad script, even with very good actors, you get a very bad movie. Gave 5 for effort.

Daughters of Eve (1985)

Death of virtue

[1/10 · 29 June 2009]

Story of ignorance very common in small isolated barrios in the Philippines. The movie however exaggerated the sexual orientation of the people.

Stars former Ms. Philippines, Ma. Isabel Lopez, including the soft-drink beauties of the late chief exploiter, Dr. Rey Dela Cruz who was murdered sometime in the '90s. It was so disappointing that Ms. Lopez, a UP graduate, used her beauty and brain to trash herself and the institution and country she used to represent.

This movie was produced during the era of the Experimental Cinema of the Philippine when some starlets in local show business were exploited to create sex-oriented movies. Marcos was still in power, and maybe this passed his approval to divert Filipinos from the worsening political and economic problems. Most of these experimental cinema allowed "pene" so don't be surprised if the there were actual "penetration" in this movie.

Produced by Elwood Perez and directed by Ricardo Lee. This experiment was definitely an on your face spit to the only Catholic nation in Asia.