Maria (2019)

A Filipino female assassin quits and fakes her death. Her old boss finds out after she's gotten a family. He tries to kill them. She responds.

Director:

Pedring Lopez (as Pedring A. Lopez)

Writers:

Pedring Lopez (story) (as Pedring A. Lopez), Yz Carbonell

Stars:

Cristine Reyes, Germaine De Leon, KC Montero

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Cristine Reyes	...	Maria
Germaine De Leon	...	Kaleb (as Ivan Padilla)
KC Montero	...	Victor
Ronnie Lazaro	...	Greg
Freddie Webb	...	Ricardo De la Vega
Guji Lorenzana	...	Bert
Johanna Rish Tongcua	...	Min-Min
Jennifer Lee	...	Miru
Cindy Miranda	...	Wednesday
Andrea Del Rosario	...	Felicia Santiago
Miel Manalang	...	Vati
Johnny Revilla	...	Governor Villanueva
Ronnie Liang	...	Club Manager
L.A. Santos	...	Leo
Enzo De Guia	...	Leo's Friend

Storyline

When a former BlackRose cartel assassin deliberately betrays them by refusing to complete her mission, the cartel orders her execution. Unbeknownst to them, she fakes her own death and is able to create a new life of her own. When the cartel discovers she is alive, the hunter becomes the hunted as she fights to get revenge on those who took her new life away from her.

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Plot Keywords:

martial arts | one woman army | murder | torture | blood | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Philippines

Language:

Filipino English

Release Date:

27 March 2019 (Philippines)

Also Known As:

Maria

Box Office

Budget:

$1,200,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

PHP 6,000,000 (Philippines), 30 March 2019

Company Credits

Production Co:

BlackOps Studios Asia, Psyops8, Viva Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

Ugly Creatures
Composed by Karl Kliatchko & Aldreen Alcantara
Written by Bones Frankenstein & Karl Kliatchko
Performed by Mr. Bones and the Boneyard Circus
Sung by Kat taylor
Recorded at Tower of Doom Studios
Produced and Recorded by Kyle Cayton
Co-produced by Eric Perlas
Mixed ans Mastered by Macoy Manuel
Courtesy of Tower of Doom Music
Published by Viva Music Publishing, Inc.

User Reviews

Chop Shop

Came as a recommendation via my Netflix account. I'm a massive fan of these type of movies and luckily more films are being made in the same genre type as The Raid, John Wick and many very decent attempts from other parts of Asia.

This has plenty of reasons to hate it as well as liking it. If you like violent fight scenes with lots of slicing a dicing of the bad guys/gals then its worth a watch just for that.

Away from the action it is a hard watch and the constant chopping from English speaking to foreign language is horrible. The plot is cliched to death and most of the acting is forgettable to say the least.

No where near at the top of the tree for this kind of movie and if you dont like this sort of film you will hate it, no middle ground with this I suspect.

I've given it 5 as it fits what I like to watch. Luckily it is a short movie which probably does it some favours as well.

Give it a go if it's your thing, avoid completely if not.