December 16, 2023
Chicken wings businessman Rex (Lester Llansang) was getting concerned over his best friend and business partner Noah (Josef Elizalde), who still could not get over the sudden mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend Ysa (Angelica Hart) for two years now. Rex and his fiancee wanted to help Noah find a new girl. They set Noah up with horoscope enthusiast Julie (Zsara Laxamana) as a possible good match, but to no avail.
One day, Noah unexpectedly saw a girl who looked like Ysa working in a milk tea place called Sip & Sit, who went by the name Okinawa. When he talked to her, she denied that she knew him. The milk tea shop turned out to be a front for a night club owned by Mond (Fabio Ide). His waitresses -- Cocoa (Aila Cruz), Wintermelon (Chloe Mendoza), Cookies and Cream (Joanna David), Matcha (Princess Zian) and Okinawa -- doubled as GROs.
Angelica Hart gets a solo lead role in only her second Vivamax film (after a minor role in "Bisyo"). Winner of Pantaxa Laiya sexy reality show also on Vivamax, Hart is pretty, perky, with a strong screen presence, though her acting still needs further honing. Josef Elizalde has already been in 15 Vivamax films, several of them in lead roles, a relative veteran already. However, his Noah still felt one-note, even the role should be more conflicted.
Brazilian model Fabio Ide's only other Vivamax film was "Purificacion" (2022), in a small role. Here, as 1/2 of the lead love triangle, Ide went all out in his bold portrayal of the unscrupulous maniac Mond. Not only did he cavort with Hart (and Cruz and Zian), he even had a wild scene with four starlets all at once in one perverted group session. It looks like recurrent Vivamax bad guy Mark Anthony Fernandez already has a taller, younger alternative.
The story is old hat Vivamax, how poverty and extreme financial need can force young women to turn to a life of prostitution. To his credit, writer Cyril Ramos tried hard to make the story more complex, weaving in discussions of dream interpretation, zodiac analysis, mental health issues, business buy-outs, and workplace envy. Director Topel Lee, of course, was expected to insert as many gratuitous sex scenes of all sorts, and he did a variety of them. 4/10
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