On The Job
This movie revolves around 4 guys who are striving hard to have food to eat and keep themselves and their families alive. In which two of the men are ex-felonies, one is a murderer and other two are court officers who got jailed due to a corruption case.
6 November 1989, Quezon City, Philippines
March 23, 1976 in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Luzon, Philippines
7 March 1989
27 October 1971, Philippines
7 February 1973, Philippines
12 January 1977, Manila, Philippines
19 June 1961, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines
19 February 1993
October 01, 2013
A great premise, solid acting, and some really interesting shots from director Matti make this well worth watching.
September 27, 2013
Matti uses this setup to show the rot in Philippine society, and it's often compelling stuff - filmed mostly on dirty streets and in moldy, ramshackle buildings.
September 26, 2013
The film manages to create some moments of genuine nervous tension, but is undercut by its split storytelling.
September 27, 2013
On The Job is a chance to see the original, messy thing.
May 26, 2014
an audacious trawl through the gutter of Manila's political structures, evoking the very best conspiracy thrillers of the 70s while remaining utterly contemporary and local.
September 27, 2013
"On the Job" is a sturdy and sophisticated crime drama from the Philippines that takes a pretty gruesome situation and enriches its presentation with lots of human detail.
September 26, 2013
Even at its most incomprehensible, the propulsive thriller "On the Job" is never less than arresting.
February 05, 2014
This is a film whose signature image might be a bloody middle finger in the midst of a very lethal intersection shootout.
September 23, 2013
A nose-to-the-ground crime thriller that also doubles as a wide-ranging portrait of official corruption in the Philippines, On the Job has little trouble delivering the genre goods.
September 26, 2013
Despite the relative flatness of [the] characters - their relationships to one another are more archetypal than particular - the film is as heartbreaking as it is heart-stopping.
September 26, 2013
Matti's primary order of business is regularly serving up tense, stylish action sequences, and he proves more adept choreographing those than sorting out the convolutions of his parallel plotlines.
September 26, 2013
Makes up in character development and action shots what it lacks in narrative innovation.
