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Maid in Malacañang (2022)

Directed by: Darryl Yap - A MOVIE REVIEW THREAD - #goldwinreviews #MaidInMalacañang #MiMNowShowing #grMaidinMalacañang Cesar Montano, Ruffa Gutierrez, Diego Loyzaga, Ella Cruz, Elizabeth Oropesa, Beverly Salviejo, Karla Estrada, Cristine Reyes

Last three days of the Marcoses in Malacañang... What happened? The movie didn't give the experience of a family in their last 72 hours.

The progression of events is anti-climactic. The flow of conversation is dull. The choice of words are hollow.

The storytelling is not cohesive. It feels like you’re watching some YouTube skits, TV Patrol excerpts, Theater scenes and SOCO rolled into one.

News. Drama. Documentary. Fiction. Biopic. Comedy. Fantasy. Tribute. History. They didn’t know what to tell and how to tell it, so they showed a bit of every other thing.

They just combined all their scenes by inserting “chapters” and “long texts” in between that literally summarizes what they want to tell—which defeats the purpose of a movie.

There are words that were not used before. But they say it openly in this movie.

The scoring is deceiving, trying to enhance the scene—even when there’s nothing remarkable in it.

Then by the end, there’s a sudden tribute to characters that were not given its decent exposure during the actual movie runtime. An illusion that something is made for them—when it is not.

Mapanlinlang ang pelikula. Makalat ang kabuuan. Pero hinding hindi ka makakatulog. Gising ka sa lahat ng kaganapan. Katulong ka sa paghubog ng kasaysayan.