Slingshot

May. 16,2007

Rating：

6.8

Genre：

Drama Crime

Keywords：

Poverty Election Boys' Love (bl)

Trailer Synopsis Cast

A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.

Jiro Manio as

Coco Martin as

Kristoffer King as

Jaclyn Jose as

Julio Diaz as

Simon Ibarra as

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Reviews

Ensofter

2007/05/16

Overrated and overhyped

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InformationRap

2007/05/17

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Tobias Burrows

2007/05/18

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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Curt

2007/05/19

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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