In this retelling of the Battle of Mactan, the writers chose to use, as a plot device, a fictional love story between a native babaylan, or spiritual healer Diwata and one of Magellan’s crew members, Enrique, who acted as the expedition’s interpreter . For one, it stars the redoubtable Hollywood character actor Danny Trejo as Ferdinand Magellan, Australian Costas Mandylor , Fil-Am Michael Copon , and Mexican Hector David Jr.
Having kicked European ass, Lapu-Lapu is hailed as our first Filipino hero who repelled a foreign invasion, never mind that historical data say that he was an immigrant from Borneo. To be fair, Danny Trejo, a seasoned Hollywood villain, gives his Magellan his best shot, vainly trying to imbue his character with a moral ambivalence, but he can only do so much with a thin script. Bea Alonzo, whom I greatly admire as an actress, seems to have given up on the shallow writing and, coupled with some problems with the movie’s producers, was evidently sleepwalking through her role.
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