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Arjo Atayde Talks Reinventing Philippines Action Cinema In MMFF Release ‘Triggered’
Philippine action movie is one of the ten titles selected for this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival and is opening across the Philippines on Dec 25.
Atayde plays a former special forces operative, now working as a security guard and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), who tries to save a woman being pursued by corrupt police and a vicious drugs cartel. Her character, a woman attempting to protect her younger brother from the drug cartel, is far from a defenseless victim and can lay claim to the film’s most disturbing scene when she dispatches a villain in the most efficient way. Somes worked with Erwin Tagle, a professional MMA fighter, on the action sequences, including an extended fight scene at the end of the movie in which Atayde and Montes’ characters take on the ultimate bad guy in the pouring rain.
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