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Cast: Bianca King, Jennica Garcia, Tessie Tomas, Pinky Marquez, Chinggoy Alonzo, and Boots Anson-Roa. The movie is another co-production of GMA Films and Regal Entertainment and is directed by Mac Alejandre.
The most controversial love team of the hour, Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes, will star in a romantic drama “One True Love.”
Synopsis: Medical intern named Migs (Dingdong Dantes) will have to deal with the conflict between his heart and his mind. After three years of courtship, he is about to get married to Joy (Marian Rivera), a nurse who works in the same hospital as him. However, days before the wedding, his first love Bella (Iza Calzado) returns to the Philippines. The balikbayan is still single and still in love with Migs, whom she broke up with in the past when her family migrated to the United States for their restaurant business.
The women in Migs’s life try to get along with each other but knowing that they are both in love with the same man give rise to feelings of jealousy and envy. When Migs gets into an accident, he develops lacunar amnesia, a type pf amnesia that blocks off time periods from one’s memory. In his case, it blocks off the three years that he was in love with Joy and leaving him with memories of Bella.
Also starring in One True Love are Iza Calzado, Jennica Garcia, Pinky Marquez, Bianca King, Tessie Tomas, Boots Anson Roa and Chinggoy Alonzo.
One True Love is a co-production of Regal Films and GMA films written by Maryo J. delos Reyes and directed by Mac Alejandre. Coming to theaters nationwide on November 19, 2008.
Synopsis:
Migs (played by Dingdong) is a medical intern about to get married to a nurse named Joy (played by Marian). Days before the wedding, his first love Bella (Iza) returns to the Philippines. Bella is still single and still in love with Migs determined to fight for her love. Migs then figures into an accident and develops lacunar amnesia and he forgets about his relationship with Joy, leaving him with memories of Bella. Joy finds it difficult to accept what happened but vows to make Mig’s heart remember what his mind cannot.
This is the trailer of this movie courtesy by c7rax
Untrue Love
by Philbert Ortiz Dy
On paper, One True Love has a lot of things going for it. The premise is somewhat compelling, and the cast brings in a lot of talent. In practice, however, things don’t work out that way, as a few bad habits rear their ugly heads and leave the film decidedly subpar.
After one year of dating, Migs proposes to his girlfriend, Joy, and she happily accepts. When Migs tells the news to his family, his sister Ara then gives the news to Migs’ first love Bela, who lives in Canada. Bela returns to the country to give their love one last try, but Migs chooses Joy. The day after their wedding, Migs gets into a motorcycle accident. He wakes up with partial amnesia, unable to remember Joy and under the impression that he’s still with Bela. After getting him through physical therapy, Joy does everything she can to bring back his memory, but Migs continues to be drawn to Bela, leaving husband and wife to be strangers in their own home.
The story has a really great hook, but the script doesn’t really have the substance to back it up. While the script gets points for an attempt at emotional sophistication, it ultimately doesn’t go there, painting the characters in broad strokes that just don’t ring true. The character of Bela in particular lacks the consistency needed to let her plight really resonate. It doesn’t help that a lot of the situations in the script aren’t portrayed in a realistic light. It’s difficult enough to accept that a woman who left her boyfriend to go to Canada would suddenly go back to the country on a whim just to disrupt a wedding, but this is also a world where a woman takes a pregnancy test just because she sees one, and a woman won’t call her husband’s phone (or the phone of the person she suspects him to be with) when he goes missing. A myriad of plot holes keep the film from rising emotionally, as it feels like the choices of the characters were made just for the convenience of the filmmakers.
The film suffers from tone as well. Practically every scene in this film is undercut by a soaring score that really does nothing for the entire picture. It’s like they don’t trust their own material, leaning on the score to tell people how they’re supposed to feel. It’s terribly annoying, and it hampers the film from letting its action rise. When every scene feels the same, the movie suffers as a whole. There are a few technical hiccups as well. The color grading shifts from shot to shot, which is just a baffling mistake. Movies with a fraction of this film’s budget don’t make that mistake. The film gains a few points in the acting department, though they’re pretty hard won as well. There’s somewhat of a soap opera feel to the production, which affects the acting as well. It just doesn’t feel as good as it could be, had the actors been given room to find a more genuine place to start from. Marian Rivera turns in a pretty decent performace. Iza Calzado is still one of the finest actors on our shores, though her character has most definitely gotten in the way of her performance. Dingdong Dantes makes a pretty good leading man, even if he tends to fall back on the same three tricks to get his point across.
Honestly, I came into the theater ready to love One True Love. I was intrigued by the premise, and Iza Calzado is just about my favorite actress. But this film just betrayed me at every turn, with glaring technical deficiencies and absolutely baffling scripting choices. It’s frustrating, because it feels like the pieces were all there, but the filmmakers just didn’t care enough to put them all together, instead choosing to just take the most convenient path to a completed movie. That never produces anything good.
Cast: Daniel Craig, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Anatole Taubmann, Judi Dench, Olga Kurylenko
REVIEW
Back before digital downloads became all the rage, music lovers had to go to record stores to buy CDs of their favourite artists and bands. Before the CD, there were audio tapes, eight-track tapes and older still, vinyl records.
In every record, there are usually two or three really good tracks that get repeated listens, another two or three that are halfway decent and the rest are what is known as filler. The numbers could vary for some albums depending on the listener, but in the end, there’s always that one song in the album that makes you scratch your head and skip to the next song.
Which brings me to the latest James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace" starring craggy Daniel Craig. My expectations for this movie were high especially after the masterful "Casino Royale" in Craig’s first outing as Bond showed us a superspy who was equal parts finesse and ferocity. One thing going for this movie is that it directly references the events of Casino Royale, making it the first true Bond sequel in the franchise’s history.
Quantum of Solace is a mixed bag, equal parts thriller and filler that pops and crackles but never quite engages in the same way that Casino did. It plants seeds for the next great Bond film without actually being that film because of hackneyed plotting, boring characters and lack of a decent threat for the world’s foremost spy.
The film starts promisingly enough, though. Bond (Craig) beats some bad guys in a car chase to bring the enigmatic Mr. White (whom we last saw at the end of Casino) to Italy for a protracted interrogation scene. "The first thing you should know is that we have people everywhere," smirks Mr. White before M’s (Judi Dench) bodyguard shoots at the other agents, including M.
Bond pursues M’s bodyguard in a rooftop parkour sequence that’s ripped straight from the Bourne Ultimatum but is much better than the overtly long chase at the beginning of "Casino Royale." To its credit, the betrayal does show how high the stakes are and builds on the relationship between Bond and M.
"Impress me," intones M and the movie does, at least in the first few reels. Using information gathered by MI6, Bond zips to Port Au Prince, Haiti to follow a lead on the White case and ends up literally killing that lead in brutal hand-to-hand combat. Thirty minutes in, we’re already getting quite a body count. "Slate was a dead end," Bond deadpans and for once, we forget to smirk because this Bond seems to enjoy his license to kill a bit too much.
We are then introduced to Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko), the obligatory Bond girl who is seducing the movie’s main bad guy Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) in order to kill would-be dictator General Medrano. It seems that White’s and Greene’s supersecret organization appropriately called Quantum is in bed with the Bolivian general to topple his government in exchange for a piece of desert property.
Camille’s plan to kill Medrano is foiled by Bond, which leads to a brutal speedboat chase that’s as bone-crunching as the car chase at the start of the film. One thing to say about this Bond – he sure treats his vehicles like blunt instruments. He also doesn’t care about doing a little B&E and even once steals an idle vehicle.
The scene then moves to Austria where the stakes go even higher as the CIA joins forces with Greene and places a hit on Bond. At this point, we are reminded again why we love Bond movies so much because of what it offers -- exotic locales, amorphous world threats and adrenaline-pumping action. When Bond kills a henchman of one of the Quantum members, he earns the ire of MI6 and has to go solo as he tries to stop Greene’s plan to corner the water services market in Bolivia. Yup, this Bond baddie is less a megalomaniac and more a ruthless businessman who likes to play Monopoly for real.
It is here though that the movie starts losing steam. Part of the problem is that the action scenes in the latter half of the movie feel rushed and fail to excite as much as the first three sequences in the movie. We get short bursts of action such as Bond jumping off a plane without a parachute and his stealthy escape sequence from military commandos but not much payoff.
Even a daring elevator escape a la Die Hard 3 is done too quickly, as if the director forgot that the best action sequences are when the camera lingers long enough for the aftermath before moving on to the next locale.
The bad guy’s motivations also leave something to be desired. Greene wants to get the whole MWSS franchise in Bolivia? Not very thrilling, sorry. For some reason, Casino’s poker games seem more menacing than Quantum’s plan of eco-terrorism simply because we can imagine all sorts of terrible things a bad guy could do with $120 million.
Finally, the Bond girl’s subplot to kill the Bolivian general felt unnecessary to the story. True, Camille’s motivation for revenge echoes Bond’s inconsolable rage over Vesper’s betrayal in "Casino." We also know that the evil general will get his comeuppance at the end of the film but must it be done in such an unimaginative manner? When Bond does put a coda to his own revenge plot, we are past the point of caring because we already forgot that he was pursuing that lead in the first place.
So what we have here is a Bond movie that's only half decent but not very memorable, like those odd numbered Star Trek films. Let’s hope that the next movie will fare better. Source
This is the Trailer of the movie courtesy by SonyPicsUK
