The film had a lot of potential, which in my opinion was partly underutilized. Both main characters are very likeable - Albert Goza (Gerry), an almost new actor, and Miko Pasamonte (Paolo), known to me from several films also listed here. Both of them have been through a lot and enter into a "strange" relationship without emotional ties to prepare each other for when each of them will meet their Mr. Right. Soon, however, "something" develops that transcends the terms of their mutual relationship. But what surprised me was the music in the second half. I can't understand at all if it was artificially added when watching online or if it is really part of the movie. Absolutely horrifying, horrible, out of place. And on top of that, the actress Renée Gozon played an affected, dismembering character, who kept getting goats out, and the well-known director GA Villafuerte, who is already dead, flashes there.

Film měl velký potenciál, který byl dle mě zčásti nevyužit. Obě hlavní postavy moc sympatické - herecký téměř nováček Albert Goza (Gerry) a mě známý z několika filmů i zde uvedených Miko Pasamonte (Paolo). Oba už mají za sebou leccos a uzavírají "divný" vztah bez citových vazeb, aby se vzájemně připravili na to, až každý z nich potká toho svého Pana Pravého. Brzy se však vyvine "něco", co překročí podmínky jejich vzájemného vztahu. Co mě ale zarazilo, byla v druhé půli hudba. Vůbec to nemůžu pochopit, jestli při online sledování tam byla přidána uměle a nebo to je vážně součást filmu. Naprosto děsivé, příšerné, nehodící se. A k tomu herečka Renée Gozon tam hrála afektovanou pitvořící se postavu, které neustále lezly ven kozy a mihne se tam i nám známý režisér GA Villafuerte, který už je po smrti.

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A pleasant short film where the emphasis was placed and most of the time also on both the two main actors of the characters Red and Nikko and it was played very nicely, gently. There were no Pinoy mannerisms and I was surprised that there were already end credits that took almost a quarter of the entire footage, so I expected that after the credits there would be the "real" ending. He wasn't. Just life...


Příjemný krátky film, kde byl důraz kladen a většina času též na oba dva hlavní herce postav Red-a a Nikko a byl zahrán velmi pěkně, jemně. Nebyly tam žádné pinoy manýry a překvapilo mě, že už jsou závěrečné titulky, které zabraly téměř čtvrtinu celé stopáže, čekal jsem tudíž, že po titulcích bude ten "pravý" konec. Nebyl. Prostě život ...

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Those manga characters (exactly as David compared it in the previous review) that were invented by Japanese women still look really weird to me, because their horrible hairdos make both the main actors, aged 18 and 22, look like thirteen-year-old hermaphrodites, or at best, so that they would rather go to the bathroom to make sure they are a boy or a girl. And when the Amagi opened its wide mouth with huge teeth from ear to ear in the close-up, I was afraid that the head of the praying mantis wanted to eat me. And now seriously. As it is almost unnatural, I actually enjoy it on the other hand. From that point of view, it was a gentle, sweet series, well-acted in its Japanese way with a straightforward story. Anyone who knows Japanese will relax with it or even smile in some scenes.

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Of course, I didn't know anything about the Panagbenga Festival in Baguio, which has been damaged by the covid pandemic in recent years, when general measures against the spread of the virus are often much tougher than in Europe, so I enriched myself with this knowledge. Joeffrey Javier is my favorite from the movie Hinala. I liked Kenji Garcia's second main character here much more than in Kambyo, which I think was less successful. The footage from the festival, the sad story, the jealousy and the burden that Ili has a girlfriend, the "erotic" scenes are sometimes funny, but for me, all this is above average compared to the set of Pinoy movies of the past years...


Samozřejmě jsem nevěděl nic o Festivalu Panagbenga v Baguiu, jež byl v posledních letech poškozen pandemií covid, kdy plošná opatření proti šíření viru jsou mnohdy daleko tvrdší, jak v Evropě, takže jsem se obohatil o tento poznatek. Joeffrey Javier je můj oblíbenec z filmu Hinala. Druhý z hlavních hrdinů Kenjie Garcia se mi zde líbil mnohem víc, jak v dle mě méně podařeném snímku Kambyo. Záběry z festivalu, příběh smutný, žárlivost a břímě, že Ili má i přítelkyni, "erotické" scény někdy úsměvné, to vše je ale pro mě ve srovnání s množinou pinoy filmů minulých let nadprůměrné ...

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The whole time I expected to be hooked when a couple of elderly actors with crooked teeth swarmed, but no ... The style was uninteresting for me, the comedy contrived, but through the pretty face of Daniel Wu, I got the ending I would imagine just like the reviewer before me. The Czech dubbing is trying, but as I'm already used to those Asian languages, it seemed incongruous, I'll probably never watch this movie again, I apologize to the creators.

Celou dobu jsem čekal, že mě to chytne, kdy se vyrojilo pár postarších herců s křivými zuby, ale ne ... Byl to styl pro mě nezajímavý, komediálnost strojená, ale přes hezkou tvářičku Daniela Wu jsem se dobral konce, který bych si představoval stejně jako recenzent přede mnou. Český dabing snaživý, ale jak už jsem zvyklý na ty asijké jazyky, připadalo mi to nesourodé, tento film si už asi nikdy nepustím, omlouvám se tvůrcům.

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By Pinoy standards, a pretty passable movie with likable protagonists. If nothing else, it at least stands out in its content from the set of other Pinoy productions with a gay theme of that time about 10 years ago. The creatures gradually increased, and I expected the ending to be as slightly "surprising" as the content of the film on IMDb reveals. It's a shame that these films, even if they don't reach the heavens, are so rarely available for the viewer from Central Europe in good quality and preferably with separate English subtitles. subtitles.

Na pinoy poměry docela obstojný film se sympatickými hlavními hrdiny. Když už nic jiného, tak se alespoň vymyká svým obsahem od množiny ostatní pinoy produkce s gay tematikou té doby před cca 10 lety. Kreatůrek postupně přibývalo a já i čekal, že ten závěr bude takový mírně "překvapivý", jak prozrazuje obsah filmu na IMDb. Škoda, že tyto filmy, i když nesahají do nebes, jsou pro diváka ze střední Evropy tak málo dostupné v dobré kvalitě a nejraději se samostatnými angl. titulky.

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Yes ... someone wrote on the net that he became a "prisoner" of this show. I also. This whole episode felt like Beauty and the Beast to me, and I'm going to be more critical than ever, and if you don't like my reviews (especially this long one), don't read.

BEAUTY:
Rain and Phayu, the second couple - without them, their acting, their likeability, their story, which was interrupted in the middle of the "plot", I probably wouldn't have given this project. Those two were the reason I became a prisoner of this series. A magical-looking Peterpan in his first major role, and Nod appealed to me far more than in Nitiman. Their scenes were also very well supported by the background music. The still beautiful Ohm (the character of Khim) and the likability of practically all the other swordsman and rugby characters (Chun, Pie, Phet and others). It was some scenes from the middle episodes that confirmed to me that the series will gradually develop into a superbomb. Unfortunately, it didn't happen.

ANIMAL:
The story was absolutely horrible, disjointed, torn, an absolute mess. I could list dozens of illogicalities, but I don't want to delay. "Something" always developed, only to be cut off, pushed back, or the story continued to act as if it hadn't happened. This literally drove many viewers to madness, and I watched as the rating on MDL gradually dropped, fell, gradually with the other episodes shown. From 8.3, the rating dropped to 6.8 today, so the viewers are angry. Such untapped potential. Several episodes dragged on like snot, tons of nothing, static after another, and I was just furiously rewinding faster to see if at least in half an hour Sun would fart and there would be some plot. In these moments, the music, otherwise beautiful, started to bother me for the first time. Because listening to heart-pounding music when "nothing" happens and the actor just turns his head from right to left (written figuratively) in two minutes, I didn't enjoy it.

ANIMAL OBSERVATIONS BELOW THE LINE:
- I'd like to see Fluke in a better role than just a confused and grimacing crybaby, shaped like a plucked mutt gnawing on a ton of red apples, Fluke didn't improve his acting reputation much with the character of Sun
- a nice "vest" in episodes 9 and 10 for the often unnecessarily confusing and indifferent character Khim, the costume designer got it right, the so-called "anti-bib" that exactly copied the holes in the entire story
- Khim runs up 25 floors as fast as Sun in the elevator, and it stops at each floor to see if the elevator car is going faster or slower than he is running up the stairs
- the orchestra: the young conductor waves in such a way that the play would have to break up immediately, Baibua couldn't see the violin even from a speed camera, poor Khim tried, but he couldn't save the cello playing with vibrato alone, everything could have been filmed, filmed differently
- Rain is in Brazil in front of the Iguazú waterfalls (I recognized it from the arrow to Itaipe), but even if he was on the Argentine side, in the whole of South America you drive on the right (except for two small, insignificant countries in the north), but Rain's car had steering wheel on the right
- stories of additional characters incomplete, while there were hours of wasted time

OVERALL: Phayu and Rain stole the show, they made one of the best BL couples I've ever seen (of course this is just my opinion), but they weren't allowed to do so physically as the storyline kept them apart for a long time. I'd like to see them in another project (possibly with all the likable swordsmen and Chun), but not led by the writer and director in one of these series. I've added a link to a short montage of Raina + Phayu footage in the comments, check it out.
Despite my very critical review, I RECOMMEND the series to all sensitive souls, I just wanted to express my disillusionment with how everything was wasted here. Respectful tribute to my colleague monvi for the precise translation, eighteen hour-long episodes are not just ...
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The movie didn't excite me at all at first, it's just stupid. However, it wasn't just stupid (I wanted to give a rating of 2), it's second stupid, and suddenly the film, which won two wins and 9 nominations at various film festivals, didn't bother me so much anymore, on the contrary, I started to feel that even the actors kidding ourselves. The story of the "transformation" of Remington (nice Martin Escudero) got me gradually, and the dismembering monsters were a lot of fun, so in the end...satisfaction, it's just a shame about the poor quality of the copy.

Film mě zezačátku vůbec nenadchl, prostě blbina. Jenomže to nebyla pouze blbina (chtěl jsem dát hodnocení 2), to je blbina na druhou a najednou snímek, který získal dvě vítězství a 9 nominací na různých filmových festivalech mě už tak nepříjemný nebyl, naopak, začal jsem cítit, že i herci si dělají srandu sami ze sebe. Postupně mě chytl příběh "přeměny" Remingtona (sympatický Martin Escudero) a ty pitvořící se obludy byly hodně k smíchu, takže nakonec ... spokojenost, škoda jen nedobré kvality kopie.

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This movie didn't give me much, although I watched it mainly because of Paolo Rivera, he didn't really play the lead role. SRO (Sonny, Roldan, Oscar) and marketable sex in a shabby cinema left me cold this time, not only because of the story, which didn't go anywhere, but also because of the processing. But still another gem in my pinoy collection.

Tento film mi toho moc nedal, ačkoliv jsem se na něj díval především kvůli Paolo Riverovi, nehrál tam úplně hlavní roli. SRO (Sonny, Roldan, Oscar) a prodejný sex v ošuntělém kině mě tentokráte nechal chladným, a to nejen kvůli příběhu, který nikam moc nevyzněl, tak i kvůli zpracování. Ale i tak další kamínek do mé sbírky pinoy.

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It's also not clear to me how it was with that girl... Kraťas looks very simple, but appearances are deceiving, it's a painful story straight from life, it's not a fairy tale. There is an immeasurable variety of relationships between human beings. From camaraderie, friendship, love, infatuation to hate and hundreds of varieties in between. Very solid.
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Také mi není jasné, jak to bylo s tou dívkou ... Kraťas vypadá, jako velmi jednoduchý, ale zdání klame, je to tíživý příběh rovnou ze života, není to žádná pohádka. Vztahů mezi lidskými bytostmi je nezměrné různorodé množství. Od kamarádství, přátelství, lásky, zamilovanosti až po nenávist a stovky druhů mezi tím. Velmi solidní.

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In my opinion, Adonis X is a slightly better piece than Bingwit. Even here, of course, there is such unusual for us Pinoy naive processing and seemingly amateurish acting, but that's just how it belongs to the Philippines, I studied everything and started the film without subtitles, which are not available anywhere.
According to the contract, Don creates a visualization of a handsome young man, Adonis X, who can materialize in certain situations and becomes Don's secret lover, although Don also has a relationship with Pam, who complicates everything in the house, because the other roommates are the two likeable characters Chong and Marvin. If you want to enjoy nice bodies, more tasteful sexy scenes and not compromise the quality of the picture, it's good for one viewing.


Adonis X je dle mě o něco lepším kouskem než Bingwit. I zde samozřejmě prostupuje pro nás tak nezvykké pinoy naivní zpracování a jakoby zdánlivě amatérské herectví, ale tak to prostě k Filipínám patří, vše jsem si nastudoval a pustil se do filmu bez titulků, které nikde nejsou k dispozici.
Don vytvoří dle zakázky vizualizaci krásného mladého muže Adonise X, který se dokáže v některých situacích zhmotnit a stává se Donovým tajným milencem, ačkoliv Don má vztah i s Pam, která to v domě všechno zkomplikuje, neboť dalšími spolubydlícími jsou dvě sympatické postavy Chonga a Marvina. Kdo si chce užít pěkných těl, vkusnějších sexy scén a nehrotit kvalitu snímku, tak na jedno zhlédnutí je to dobré.

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This erotic story is so sweetly simple, and the nice thing about it is that it doesn't play to win any film festival. And be careful, I don't recommend this film to delicate individuals, because it's full of obscene expressions and sassy sex. Salem is a horny gold digger who has an influential politician as her husband (that means a crook, which also applies here) and at the same time likes to share it with her current lover Aldon and later Medel, another man whom she "returned" to the fish farm (scenes with Medel are backwards in time). It also has a crime plot in the last quarter of the film, and a few scenes appear to Aldon in a dream. In the end, despite the "complicated" conclusion, it works out ... let yourself be surprised ... and for that I add one extra point to the story.
Many scenes are funny, Filipino. With her husband, Salem "does" it in the car through panties, the viewer gets the impression that this voluptuous girl has a natural somewhere on her navel near the scene where Medel lets herself be "licked" ?? (I'm using words from the movie), the men reprimand each other in such a way that that their pride has probably grown on their stomach or thigh, but the effort is great and you can feel and see it and actually the whole thing looks cute ???. But I won't deduct another point for processing, that's what other "experts" are here for, who, if nothing else, will at least give themselves a review orgasm by damning the film.

Tento erotický příběh je tak mile prostinký a sympatické je na něm i to, že si nehraje na to vyhrát kdejaký filmový festival. A pozor, nedoporučuji tento snímek jemným jedincům, neboť sprostými výrazy a přidrzlým sexem se to tam jen hemží. Salem je nadržená zlatokopka, která má za manžela vlivného politika (to znamená gaunera, což platí i u nás) a zároveň si to ráda rozdává se svým současným milencem Aldonem a posléze i Medelem, dalším mužem, kterého "vrátila" na rybí farmu (scény s Medelem jsou zpětně v čase). Má to v poslední čtvrtině filmu i krimi zápletku a pár scén se Aldonovi zdá ve snu. Nakonec přes "komplikovaný" závěr to dopadne ... nechte se překvapit ... a za to přidávám na příběhu jeden bod navíc.
Úsměvně působí mnohé scény, filipínsky. S manželem to Salem "dělá" v autě přes gaťky, divák nabyde dojmu, že tato chlípná děva má přirození někde na pupku u scény, kde se Medelem nechává "lízat" ?? (používám slova z filmu), pánové se vzájemně ukájejí tak, že jim asi jejich chlouba vyrostla na břichu či stehně, ale snaha je velká a je cítit a vidět a vlastně to celé působí roztomile ???. Nebudu za to ale ubírat další bod za zpracování, na to jsou zde jiní "experti", kteří, když nic jiného, si způsobí alespoň recenzní orgasmus tím, že film zatratí.

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The film did not impress me as much, despite the awards at festivals, as it probably should have. But I appreciate the quality of the copy and the main character of Ambet. The style of the camera and the alternation of "real" shots with film and black and white, and above all the involvement of the little girl who watched some of the sex scenes and crimes, did not do me any good. The film has certain qualities, I admit, but from my point of view I rather do not recommend the film.


Film mě až tak nezaujal, i přes ocenění na festivalech, jak by asi měl. Oceňuji ale kvalitu kopie a hlavní postavu Ambeta. Styl kamery a střídání záběrů "pravých" s filmovými a černobílými a především zapojení té holčičky, která přihlížela některým sexuálním scénám a zločinům, mi nedělal dobře. Jisté kvality film má, to připouštím, ale z mého pohledu spíše film nedoporučuji.

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