The film will unfold in Manila, Philippines, and in the jungles of the island of Boracay. A peaceful and quiet island is interrupted by the murder of one of its locals. And in order to protect his daughter, a middle-aged Russian man must get out of his comfort zone.
10 September 1954, Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA
27 September 1950, Tokyo, Japan
27 January 1982, Germany
2 January 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
21 December 1961
17 July 1971, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
26 February 1964, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
9 July 1978, Astrakhan, Astrakhanskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
2 August 1960, Paris, France
January 15, 2018
Pedestrian (at best) in content and execution, including listless, sometimes inept staging of key action elements.
January 18, 2018
For those who can endure the feature's considerable shortcomings and tone-deaf creative choices, this might be the next "The Room" for action cinema fans.
January 18, 2018
If "The Room" impresario Tommy Wiseau had been given the opportunity to make an action film, the result would still have been more entertaining than the egregiously nonsensical and amateurish "Showdown in Manila."
January 17, 2018
A mishmash of action movie and buddy cop clichés rendered in incompetent fashion, this wink-wink homage to 1991's Showdown in Little Tokyo makes its inspiration seem like a classic.
