{"id":365012,"date":"2021-11-10T05:08:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T02:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-arisaka-review-solid-but-far-too-familiar-philippine-action-thriller\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T05:08:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T02:08:17","slug":"watch-arisaka-review-solid-but-far-too-familiar-philippine-action-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-arisaka-review-solid-but-far-too-familiar-philippine-action-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Arisaka&#8217; Review: Solid but Far Too Familiar Philippine Action 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-6a413d9bb96e8\" 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-6a413d9bb96e8\" 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-arisaka-review-solid-but-far-too-familiar-philippine-action-thriller\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Arisaka_Review_Solid_but_Far_Too_Familiar_Philippine_Action_Thriller%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Arisaka&#8217; Review: Solid but Far Too Familiar Philippine Action 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-arisaka-review-solid-but-far-too-familiar-philippine-action-thriller\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Arisaka_Review_Solid_but_Far_Too_Familiar_Philippine_Action_Thriller%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Arisaka&#8217; Review: Solid but Far Too Familiar Philippine Action Thriller&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-arisaka-review-solid-but-far-too-familiar-philippine-action-thriller\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-arisaka-review-solid-but-far-too-familiar-philippine-action-thriller\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Arisaka_Review_Solid_but_Far_Too_Familiar_Philippine_Action_Thriller%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Arisaka&#8217; Review: Solid but Far Too Familiar Philippine Action Thriller&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Arisaka_Review_Solid_but_Far_Too_Familiar_Philippine_Action_Thriller%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Arisaka&#8217; Review: Solid but Far Too Familiar Philippine Action Thriller&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        It\u2019s not wholly clear how much Filipino filmmaker Mikhail Red wants his latest thriller, \u201cArisaka,\u201d to be more than a faithful retread of the kind of lean B-movie that used to star Sylvester Stallone and, more latterly, reinvigorated Liam Neeson\u2019s career. And it\u2019s also not clear why he would nurse such aspirations: It\u2019s the very competence of the action sequences (some dodgy CG arterial blood spray aside) and the strict adherence to the gritty actioner playbook that leave a faintly sour taste when the film attempts even the mildest commentary on real-world issues.<\/p>\n<p>The main twist on formula that \u201cArisaka\u201d offers is its star: not a grizzled older white man with a particular set of skills but multi-hyphenate Philippine sensation Maja Salvador. Her presence, plus Red\u2019s rising profile following 2019\u2019s \u201cDead Kids,\u201d the first Philippine Netflix film, should guarantee a degree of local success for the project. But its relative blandness makes it a harder sell anywhere its survival-meets-vengeance hero\u2019s journey feels like a well-trodden path. Which is to say, almost everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Mariano (Salvador) is part of the police unit that has been dispatched to ensure the safe passage of local politician Rosales (Archi Adamos) so he can give testimony against a cabal of high-level gangsters. But as the convoy drives along a deserted country road that is on the route of the infamous Bataan Death March, it comes under attack. Rosales is murdered, along with everyone else bar Mariano. She survives by playing dead beneath the bodies of her comrades: exactly the manner that one character had, two minutes earlier, described his grandfather\u2019s escape from Japanese custody in WWII, because this is the type of hasty foreshadowing Anton Santamaria\u2019s by-the-numbers screenplay deals in.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that it is another detachment of corrupt police officers who carry out the bloody hit, and that they previously tried to recruit Mariano, cues up a <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> of leaden flashbacks that incrementally reveal her not-terribly-surprising backstory. Things get briefly more interesting once sneeringly ruthless gang boss Sonny (Mon Confiado) arrives on the scene and Mariano takes to the dense jungle to evade him and his goons. There, accumulating non-fatal bullet wounds like some people collect stamps, she is found bruised and bleeding by Nawi (Shella Mae Romualdo), an Indigenous girl, who brings her back to her family to patch her up.<\/p>\n<p>This rustic interlude with Nawi\u2019s family is both the film\u2019s best stab at plugging some <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> and historical context into the weightless plot and its most problematic section. <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>arently unaware that their function in a story like this is to imbue in the hero a newfound respect for the simple nobility of the Indigenous lifestyle, and then to meet an ugly fate so there\u2019s even more to avenge, the family goes through the motions of this narrative with the same metronome predictability as Myka Magsaysay-Sigua and Paul Sigua\u2019s anonymous score. \u201cWhat you have gone through in a day, we as a people have suffered for many years,\u201d the wise, dignified father tells Mariano as she heals, but a portrayal this glib yields no real sense of the struggles specific to this marginalized community.<\/p>\n<p>Nor, indeed, does Salvador\u2019s casting bring much to the action-template table. As refreshing as it might be to have her sex not be a major issue, it\u2019s a little hard to believe that her exclusively male posse of pursuers \u2014 sadists, psychos and desperadoes to a man \u2014 make not one reference to the person they\u2019re chasing down being an extremely beautiful young woman. Whatever progressive laurels may be earned by having a female finger on the trigger of the titular rifle are a little tarnished by the sense that the script might well be the result of a find-and-replace process substituting \u201cshe\u201d for \u201che\u201d on a repurposed Christopher Lambert or Dolph Lundgren vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Mycko David\u2019s camerawork is, however, a virtue throughout, making the most of the striking verdant surroundings and of Salvador\u2019s face, which is pleasant to look at without ever doing anything very memorable. And Red further proves, on the foot of his previous genre outings, that he knows how to shape a tense sequence and is defiantly un-squeamish about gore. If \u201cArisaka\u201d has an effects hallmark, it\u2019s probably the fractional delay between the sound of a gunshot crack and a bullet\u2019s grisly impact on a far-off head. If you think about it for two minutes, the headshot-heavy climax is in direct contradiction to Mariano\u2019s philosophy by which \u201cEvery living being in the world has value, and no one can claim to be the scale that measures it.\u201d But not to worry: It\u2019s unlikely you\u2019ll be thinking about this perfectly functional, entirely forgettable film for as long as that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/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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