The cast often seems to deliver more enthusiasm than ability following some links on the IMDB has much of that cast appearing in things like "Viva Hot Babes" (Viva being the name of the production company) and "Sex Drive".
#KEKA REVIEW MOVIE#
A movie doesn't have to be bound to a specific narrative technique, but the techniques used probably shouldn't contradict each other. Both Keka and Jason also contribute voice-overs.
Even stranger is when one of Keka's confessional moments turns into a musical fantasy sequence (which is a flat-out riot). It does seem to imply an end which the film may or may not deliver. It's kind of an interesting technique, more direct than giving them friends to talk to about it - although kind of unnecessary, since Keka is already talking to Bhong about it (although she might not talk to Bhong about both her new boyfriend and offing the folks who killed her old boyfriend). Throughout the movie, both Keka and Jason appear to be taking part in interview segments, talking about the story's events in the past tense. She works hard at training herself, she recognizes that things probably won't have a happy ending, and displays a sort of guileless enthusiasm when addressing the audience directly. Santos somehow manages to make Keka never come off as unhinged - aside from her quest for vengeance, she seems pretty normal, not capricious or unusually friendly. Making the murder seem to be in response to exaggerated boorishness puts the audience in an exaggerated-comedy frame of mind which carries through even after we learn the motivation is serious. I'm certain a lot of people in the audience were nodding their heads, thinking that yes, that guy's got it coming during the opening scene, even before we learn about the murder of her old boyfriend. Though she's a killer, Keka's got our sympathy from the start. What surprises her is how much of a thrill killing the five is - way better than her job working late nights doing tech support with an American accent in a call center! And of course, Jason has no idea that the girl he's dating has committed the seemingly unconnected murders he's investigating. She figures it's eye-for-an-eye time, and gets P.J.'s fraternity brother Bhong (Vhong Navarro) to help her train. (Jordan Herrera) was killed by members of a rival fraternity, but because the five were members of wealthy and powerful families - especially Bobby Domingo (Ryan Eigenmann), whose father was a senator - they got off. The two will, of course, have a couple of chance meetings later, and start dating, but first we learn about Keka.Ī few years earlier, her college boyfriend P.J. Having nearly as bad a time is policeman Jason Sanchez (Wendell Ramos), who makes a quick trip to the men's room to psyche himself up to propose to his beautiful girlfriend, only to be dumped. In the first, a man drones on and on about himself, quickly revealing himself as a prize jerk, and after a few minutes, his date Francesca "Keka" Jose (Katya Santos) makes her way to the refrigerator, pulls out a garrotte, and strangles him. Props to the beginning, though, where we're treated to a couple of Dates From Hell. Writer/director Quark Henares doesn't quite seem to know HOW he wants to tell his story, and basically throws his hands up at the end. I mention this not just because this is the first Filipino film I can recall seeing, but because the movie itself seems built of parts that don't quite fit together cleanly, and not just in terms of combining romantic comedy and revenge thriller. Just looking at the cast and credits the facial features are mostly Pacific Islander, but the names are mostly Spanish, and there are a lot of English words heard amidst the Filipino/Tagalog dialog. They're in love."Įven more than the rest of Asia, the Philippine islands seem to have had their culture just smashed into small bits by the West.
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