Maria (2019)


Cristine Reyes is just like John Wick

First, this movie is great, with a good timing, for the showing of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.

Well actually the story is a bit like John Wick, but instead of the goons killed a Dog, they killed Maria’s family after retiring from being an Assassin.

Maria is an action packed movie that focuses more on fight scenes, Cristine made it look good for doing most of her fight scenes, maybe thanks to her husband Ali Khatibi that is a MMA Figher.

Hand to hand combat was good in this, but the actors need more training to have more realistic moves, and do not seemingly choreographed. Gunfights is a good addition, but maybe next time also actors have to train how to hold, point, and shoot a gun.

The things I have noticed on this movie are:

When Maria slashes her enemies using a knife, blood splat everywhere, but there is no marks on the body of the victim.
Next is the Aerial Drone Shots that keeps on establishing the next location.

 
 


The acting is maybe a little off, especially if they are delivering their lines in Filipino. Maybe next time more experienced actors.

However, over all, this is a great movie, a story about revenge; on how GIRLS should know how to fight, and when to fight.

I just hoped that there would be more movies like this in the future; but hey, the ending scene just showed us that this is an open ending movie, so there could be a part 2.



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