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Alpha: The Right to Kill

Play trailer Poster for Alpha: The Right to Kill 2018,  1h 34m,  Crime/ Drama/ Mystery & Thriller/ Action Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 67% 6 Reviews Tomatometer 33% Popcornmeter
67% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 33% Popcornmeter
As the Manila police force storm the slums to arrest a drug lord, a corrupt cop and an informant flee with a backpack full of cash and methamphetamine, sparking off a dangerous series of events.

Critics Reviews

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Guy Lodge Variety Sep 26, 2018
There's a bone-weary resignation to its worldview that underlines its simple moral point all the more effectively. Go to Full Review
Jonathan Holland The Hollywood Reporter Sep 25, 2018
High-impact but shallow. Go to Full Review
Jonathan Romney Screen International Sep 24, 2018
Punchy docudrama-style execution and an involving narrative that bowls along like, well, gangbusters, give Alpha an immediacy that's often been missing from Mendoza's realist studies of Filipino street life. Go to Full Review
Oggs Cruz Rappler Jul 17, 2019
Sadly, Alpha, despite all the advances in Mendoza's craft, feels old. Go to Full Review
Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film Oct 4, 2018
3/5
Although strong in its documentary feel and scathing in its message, it otherwise runs through the Alpha to Omega of predictable thriller elements. Go to Full Review
Cristina Aparicio Caimán Cuadernos de Cine Sep 24, 2018
The causes that make a society as vulnerable as it is naive are exposed, a social portrait in which spaces to safeguard childhoods no longer exist. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Brillante Mendoza

Director

Allen Dizon

Actor

Angela Cortez

Rhea

Elijah Filamor

Actor

Baron Geisler

Actor

Jalyn Taboneknek

Actor

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Alpha: The Right to Kill

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Movie Info

Synopsis As the Manila police force storm the slums to arrest a drug lord, a corrupt cop and an informant flee with a backpack full of cash and methamphetamine, sparking off a dangerous series of events.
Director
Brillante Mendoza
Producer
Carlo Valenzona
Screenwriter
Troy Espiritu
Production Co
Centerstage Productions
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language
Filipino
Runtime
1h 34m
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