
After surviving the slaughter of her entire squad in a drug raid compromised by dirty cops, anti-narcotics special operative Nina Manigan (Anne Curtis), is eager to go head-to-head with the drug cartels that hold a bloody grip on Manila. But when her new mission in the city's most dangerous slum goes south, the angry civilians turn on her squad. Trapped between a brutal drug gang and hordes of bloodthirsty citizens, their only option is to fight their way out, turning one cla... (Full plot summary below)
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After surviving the slaughter of her entire squad in a drug raid compromised by dirty cops, anti-narcotics special operative Nina Manigan (Anne Curtis), is eager to go head-to-head with the drug cartels that hold a bloody grip on Manila. But when her new mission in the city's most dangerous slum goes south, the angry civilians turn on her squad. Trapped between a brutal drug gang and hordes of bloodthirsty citizens, their only option is to fight their way out, turning one claustrophobic street at a time into a symphony of apocalyptic violence.
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| The PlaylistBradley WarrenThe world of the film is bracingly immediate and constantly overflowing—dubious sound design or a shift in image quality, while glaring, can’t puncture the holistic nightmare of Matti’s vision. |
| VarietyRichard KuipersBuyBust is a superbly executed action film about drug squad members fighting for their lives in a maze-like Manila slum that resembles nothing less than hell on earth. |
| Screen InternationalJohn BerraAs much as BuyBust seems to be engineered for maximum excitement, it’s not without the complexities that are typical of Matti’s ambitious genre pieces. |
| Film PulseAdam PattersonA non-stop, adrenaline-soaked bloodbath that hits the ground running and doesn't let up until the exhausting conclusion. |
| CinapseEd TravisThe stars, director, and crew put their best efforts in for our entertainment and in the end they put enough heart and soul in that it ultimately works. |
| The Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiThe veteran Philippine genre-meister's ultraviolent action blockbuster goes beyond easy moral binaries to highlight how Duterte's warped worldview has made monsters out of everyone from the police to the peddlers to the ordinary people in between, all of them doing the bloody bidding of a corrupt political class. |
| Houston ChronicleCary DarlingWhen "BuyBust" finally combusts, it's often simultaneously spectacular and disturbing. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshIn the cynical worldview of BuyBust, there’s no escaping this crushing cycle of killing and corruption. That real-life message makes this wild action film more powerful, but the violence is a hard pill to swallow. |
| Gulf News (UAE)Irish Eden BellezaThe 47-year-old director...is certainly quite clever to use the chaos, the unbelievable sequences in the film as a metaphor for his anti-establishment sentiment. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisWrapping a political-corruption yarn in a blanket of bullets and blood, the Filipino director and co-writer, Erik Matti, slides visual and textual jokes into the mayhem in ways both sly and blatant. |