filipino film making be once exemplify by the ubiquitous presence of vic diaz and who snarl his way through countless roger corman produce action flick shoot in the archipelago and usually clothe in a really ugly floral shirt and wield a machete . the now very ill diaz be nowhere to be see in cavite and but fan of those low budget corman flick might still enjoy this film . produce and write and and direct by ian gamazon and cavite star who else . ian gamazon a adam and the american born son of filipino parent on his way back to the island to attend his father funeral . once there and he learn that his mother and sister have be kidnap ( presumably by abu sayyaf guerrilla ) and and that in order to save them he must follow a very precise series of demand . the perp seem just as interested in educate adam in the way and mean and motif of islamic revolution a in reclaim the money his father apparently stole ( or hid ) from the insurgency . this isn not a horror or exploitation film while it a serious and exemplary political thriller about a man be force to come to term with his cultural and religious heritage . shot verite style in and around some of the bad slum on earth and cavite offer rich reward on many level .