{"id":338111,"date":"2021-09-12T03:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T00:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-on-the-job-the-missing-8-review-sprawling-anti-corruption-thriller\/"},"modified":"2021-09-12T03:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T00:20:44","slug":"watch-on-the-job-the-missing-8-review-sprawling-anti-corruption-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-on-the-job-the-missing-8-review-sprawling-anti-corruption-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;On the Job: The Missing 8&#8217; Review: Sprawling Anti-Corruption Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407e604905d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407e604905d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-on-the-job-the-missing-8-review-sprawling-anti-corruption-thriller\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98On_the_Job_The_Missing_8_Review_Sprawling_Anti-Corruption_Thriller%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;On the Job: The Missing 8&#8217; Review: Sprawling Anti-Corruption Thriller&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-on-the-job-the-missing-8-review-sprawling-anti-corruption-thriller\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98On_the_Job_The_Missing_8_Review_Sprawling_Anti-Corruption_Thriller%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;On the Job: The Missing 8&#8217; Review: Sprawling Anti-Corruption Thriller&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98On_the_Job_The_Missing_8_Review_Sprawling_Anti-Corruption_Thriller%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;On the Job: The Missing 8&#8217; Review: Sprawling Anti-Corruption Thriller&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98On_the_Job_The_Missing_8_Review_Sprawling_Anti-Corruption_Thriller%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;On the Job: The Missing 8&#8217; Review: Sprawling Anti-Corruption Thriller&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Scr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y filmmaking can sometimes deliver superb storytelling, as is proven by Erik Matti\u2019s initially wobbly but increasingly gripping, increasingly thoughtful, increasingly <em>increasing<\/em> three-and-a-half-hour \u201cOn the Job: The Missing 8,\u201d the prolific Filipino director\u2019s Venice-competing sequel to the 2013 Cannes Directors\u2019 Fortnight title \u201cOn the Job.\u201d While the film unfolds more like the TV show it\u2019s about to become (together with part one, it is due to be re-edited into a six-episode HBO Asia mini<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>), that\u2019s hardly a diss these days. And in its current shape \u2014 due largely to screenwriter Michiko Yamamoto\u2019s uncanny ability to keep multiple narrative balls in the air at once \u2014 it combines the immersive, occasionally spectacular pleasures of genre cinema with the greedy moreishness of longform TV models. It\u2019s a sprawling, satisfying big-screen binge.<\/p>\n<p>It also plays somewhat like a 209-minute dolly zoom: As the aperture widens on the intensely corrupt landscape of a society under strongman leadership (Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s name is never mentioned, but the ruthlessly suppressive tactics he is known to employ are everywhere), the focus also narrows onto one man\u2019s painful ethical reawakening. This man is Sisoy Salas (played in a deceptively shrewd, moving performance of integrity gradually winning out over bluster, by John Arcillo) a local celebrity in the municipality of La Paz. On his brash radio talk show, he is known for vociferously defending even the most suspect policies of La Paz\u2019 Machievellian mayor Pedring Eusebio (an excellent Dante Rivero).<\/p>\n<p>His support for Eusebio has caused a rift between Sisoy and his erstwhile best friend Arnel (Christopher De Leon), who now runs the struggling <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper the pair co-founded back in Sisoy\u2019s more idealistic days. Since the paper has become known for publishing regime-critical stories \u2014 often written by crusading journo Weng (Lotlot De Leon) \u2014 it has attracted Eusebio\u2019s attention. On the same night he throws a lavish party at which the clueless Sisoy is prevailed upon to sing karaoke, Eusebio orders Arnel\u2019s murder, to be carried out by a hit squad assembled from the inmates of the local prison.<\/p>\n<p>In a cruel twist of fate, Arnel happens not to be alone when his assassins find him, and eight people in total, mostly newspaper staffers but also Arnel\u2019s 8-year-old son, are murdered that night, their bodies hidden. Only one of the killers seems to show any hesitance: Roman (Dennis Trillo), shaggy of mullet and spectacularly broken of nose, at first seems little more than a cog in the movie\u2019s vast machinery, but will later come to play a key role in the newly engaged, grieving and disillusioned Sisoy\u2019s campaign to find the bodies and to make those responsible answer for their crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the Job: The Missing 8\u201d is long but it uses its length wisely, to ever more absorbing and enriching effect. And though Matti can be a little undisciplined in deploying showy techniques \u2014 \u201c24\u201d-style split-screens, rather ugly montages of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> chatter, newspaper headlines, TV reports and so on \u2014 after a rather confusing blizzard of information up top, Jay Halili\u2019s editing soon settles into its rhythm. That beat is often a familiar one: The Scorsese influence is unmistakable, especially in the use of incongruously cheerful or romantic pop tunes (often Tom Jones covers as a nice little running gag) to soundtrack moments of high peril or violence. But if you\u2019re going to paint an ever-broadening, multi-level, practically dynastic portrait of a whole interconnected system of political, judicial, social and penal gangsterism, who better to emulate?<\/p>\n<p>There is some crossover with Matti\u2019s first \u201cOn the Job\u201d movie, particularly in the person of cop Joaquin Acosta (Joey Marquez) who even in that earlier film was dedicated to exposing the practice of manipulating prison inmates \u2014 who are often inside for far more minor crimes \u2014 into becoming political assassins for hire. But the real focus of this sequel is on journalism (recalling \u201cThe Wire\u201d season dedicated to newsroom ethics) and its value in a society not only increasingly hostile to traditional print media, but also saturated, as the Philippines is, with online fake news outlets, and social media clickbait masquerading as reputable sources.<\/p>\n<p>The film is designed as a genre procedural, and delivers its most visceral thrills in well-mounted versions of classic set-pieces, like a prison riot and a last-ditch car chase through a cornfield at night \u2014 sequences where Matti\u2019s verve, Neil Derrick Bion\u2019s classical, moody photography and Halili\u2019s exemplary cutting work in concert. But there is also a serious point being made here, and a distinctly angry undercurrent of social critique that all the ironic soundtrack cuts and cinematic suspense-building cannot obscure. It would make \u201cOn the Job: The Missing 8\u201d a fine double bill with Ramona S. Diaz\u2019s terrific 2020 doc on pioneering Filipina journalist Maria Ressa, \u201cA Thousand Cuts,\u201d which proves how very close to life much of this expansive, uneven but ultimately richly entertaining thriller really is \u2014 especially, perhaps, those elements that seem most far-fetched.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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