Director Bor Ocampo’s latest, Hitboy, drew some peculiarities following its recent CineFilipino Film Fest screening this month. Adrian Cabido leads the narrative here playing a thirteen year-old hitman-for-hire, beleagured by a pregnant girlfriend and a strained opportunity to redeem himself to his employer following a botched job.
UnReel’s Geoffrey Ledesma rates it at two stars out of five next to a few reviews online that cite it as largely imbalanced between its grimness and comedic delivery. I don’t really know what that means myself except at face value, this one might have me feeling unsettled, but the poster looks somewhat stark, and the trailer sells itself like a pretty upbeat coming-of-age crime drama.
Check it out below and judge for yourselves I suppose.
