1988
– Raider Platoon (Ticar/SQ Films)
[Philippines
release date 7th July 1988, original title "Philippine Marines:
Raider Platoon"; export version released by Davian International
and Sunny Films, also referred to as “Raiders Platoon”]
Director
Jhun Ortega Cinematography Zosimo Corpus, Edmund Cupcupin Editor
Monico Conrado
Cast
Jess Lapid Jr, Philip Gamboa, Amanda Amores, Lezette Cordero, Ernie Ortega
EXPORT
CREDITS Director Federick Moses Cast Jerome Leo, Frannkie Catas,
Doris Mann
Mini-review
by Andrew Leavold
Ignore
most of the Anglicized credits, designed by exporters Davian
International and Sunny Films to throw you off the scent: it's really
another predictable, formulaic Pinoy actioner with Jess Lapid Jr and
Philip Gamboa leading a platoon of faceless goons deep into NPA
territory to defeat Ernie Ortega and his equally anonymous rebels,
and rescue the two kidnapped children of a military commander and his
wife hacked to pieces by Ortega's henchmen. At just 81 minutes it's
shorn of a third of its running length to mostly combat sequences and
exploding huts, and is STILL tedious, and despite some over-the-top
gore (head shots, intestines pulled out of torso) is basically a
loud, dumb, lazily-executed nod-fest stitched together with footage
of real-life Marine manoeuvres. The result: less of an entertainment
than an exercise in anti-Communist propaganda. Take that, rebel scum!
The radioman is edgar macasaddu, father of my friend...
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