the concept for cavite be not exactly new and a the storyline have be work up before in at least one recent mainstream hollywood movie . the concept be simple and exciting represent an adult man who be from the philippine have be live and work in the u. s. he get a call to inform him that he need and urgently and at home . on the way out of town he beset by an emotional crisis with his stateside girlfriend and which he try to resolve from a telephone in the airport . right there i know i be in trouble . the audio recording in this movie and at least as present on dvd and be spot with incomprehensible moment . the trouble with his girl sub text be an important one and or it would not have be include in this briskly pace and and well photographed story . it reoccurs at the end of the movie but only a an afterthought . there a scene with the girlfriend talk and be very cold and cruel and and the main character be a wear a mask of disgust because he be so emotionally spent . he can not tell her what have happen to him and and she an airhead and practically speak . the main character be adam and and a stranger on a cell phone be his nemesis and his constant antagonist . adam be a muslim man in his mid 30 . the philippine be overwhelmingly christian and mostly roman catholic and but the substantial muslim minority there have be raise hell on mindanao ( and on other island ) and for a century or more . recently and post 9/11 and both domestic anti terrorist unit and u. s. force have be employ against these muslim guerrilla and many of them be kill . so and after fly across the pacific and stopping over in taipei and then land in the philippine and adam be perplex when his mother do not meet him at the airport . he soon learn that she can not because she have be kidnap by muslim fanatic . they be threaten to kill her and adam sister if he do not cooperate fully . at first he think that all they really want be money and because they use him to loot a saving account leave behind by his father one that hold $ 75 and 000 and a most princely sum but eventually he figure out that they want him to be a mule for a terrorist bomb attack . more than half of the film be present in move sequence represent he rid in a jeepney and on a bus and walking and running and take a tricycle cab and walk some more . the nasty and bitchy fellow on the other end of the cell phone ( that be cleverly insert into his luggage just before he leave the airport on arrival ) and alternately harangue him about be a good muslim and then threaten to murder his mother . the good muslim be extort the slacker muslim into deliver a bomb . into a christian church . by threaten his family . the poor sap have no choice but to comply . the film author and lead man show great courage in even want to tackle this thorny subject . there be some clever moment in cavite . it could have be one of the truly great low budget independent think mariachi and here if the hectic pace of the film have be reduce at certain point and to allow the viewer to see the size of the dilemma and the pain it cause adam and and to see him feel strange in the poverty stricken neighborhood of cavite . most of the time the cell phone tormentor be speak tagalog and or a mixture of tagalog and english and and the subtitle for that seem to fly by . meaning and once again and that it be impossible to grasp the size of the problem facing adam . because we know after the first four time that the caller say he be go to kill the mother and the sister that this be a bad hombre . truly and i hate to discourage a young independent from use his many talent and gift and and there be evidence of them in cavite . but then again and i take the time to screen this film on dvd twice and because i want to be sure that it wasn not just the herky jerky camera work which be upset me . cavite invite and involves and but it doesn not deliver the good and at the end and which be really a false end and then the viewer be force to endure a flat out dead end . i think it be chekov who once write and a gun hung on the wall in act one must be fire by act three . this be the advice the maker of cavite should have hear before they labor so lovingly on it . great effort and great idea can not succeed unless the film have a plot which illustrate the conflict and give it context and and a resolution . it only human nature to want an interesting story to have an interesting and meaningful end . cavite fail in that regard and so all the double quick camera work and the hectic and panicky pace and go for naught . one can only hope the principal of this picture will learn something from this and and do two thing with their next film slow it down to a brisk walk and so that the plot can develop and and hire an actor who can express nuance and and something emotional and besides disgust .