![]() Director Erik Matti fashions a flinty-eyed, plot-heavy, but emotionally resonant dramatization out of such grim true source material. ![]() The horrifying thing about “On the Job” is its basis on actual events in the Philippines, a country where ballots and bullets are both common instruments of democracy. Middle-aged Tatang (Joel Torre) and young upstart Daniel (Gerald Anderson) are two members of an informal prison-labor program in which convicts are temporarily released by high-ranking politicians to take out the latter’s opponents. ![]() In the Filipino crime drama “On the Job,” two hit men evade suspicion in the safest haven imaginable: a prison cell.
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