FPJ & Vivian Foz - MUSLIM MAGNUM.357 (1986) clip 4 _ Ang Muslim

August is FPJ's birth month.


Fernando Poe Jr. is Lt. Jamal Razul in EDL Productions' MUSLIM MAGNUM .357.
Also starring Eddie Garcia, Max Alvarado, Paquito Diaz, Romy Diaz, Vic Diaz, Eddie Arenas, Luis Castro, Ruel Vernal, Rey Langit, Christopher Paloma, Michael Roberts and Vivian Foz as Des.
Directed by Ronwaldo Reyes.

FPJ won his 5th Famas Best Actor Award in this movie.
The following year 1988, he was elevated to the Famas Hall of Fame (for an Actor).
He was also nominated as Best Director.

He also won the FAP Best Actor Award the same year.



Here is a film review of this movie:


" Ronnie Poe's got a winner in Muslim .357.

In making this statement, we chose not to concern ourselves with FPJ's personal favorites among the films he has made as star, director, or as star-director.

"Muslim .357" we were pretty much prepared to dislike owing to the trailer which, to our mind, incited violence more than it generated enthusiasm for the movie - and it served this last purpose quite well.

As a matter of fact, we admit we braved the crowds in search of material for a lampoon piece. Before putting down in writing all prejudices, we wanted to sort of review the thousands and one clichés we had often found torturous in Ronnie Poe starrers:

FPJ making every entrance like a godsend;
Max Alvarado laughing his maniacal laughter;
Eddie Garcia grinning his sly-sheepish grin;
Diaz brothers, Paquito and Romy, raping virgins;
And so on...

As it turned out, it was one of the few times we were glad to be disappointed. If that sounds contradictory, only Christians can go to heaven.

Ronnie plays a Muslim undercover agent charged with unmasking fake soldiers utilized as executioners by a big syndicate. He didn't depart much from his standard eyebrow-knitting and macho-of-few-words characterization but these "usual" sat well on his Jamal Razul.

Max Alvarado does not laugh even once. Instead he plays the Wise one, a man who's seen enough roughness in the world to realize there are always kindly and just men caught in violent cross-fires. He approaches the role with a refreshing calmness, putting across a sense of sobriety his previous roles never even hinted at.

Eddie Garcia is competent as usual, as the Diaz brothers are detestable in their roles even without rape scenes.

When you come right down to it, the story isn't exactly brand new - a network of evil blown apart by a single man so mysterious that folks weave tall tales around him, and yet so simpatico that the children and the prettiest girl in town simply fall under his spell.

But then that's how we know, too, that direction and editing are good. Through nearly two hours, we are sure a twist awaits us somewhere and when it doesn't come, we realize we don't mind.

The action is fast, and we are treated to relatively new sights onscreen, like colorful Muslim festivities and solemn Muslim rites, and FPJ participating in them and speaking their dialect.

Many portions do make us feel Ronnie is patronizing his Muslim followers but he does well by them, too, by not trying to disprove popular notions about Muslim disposition and temperament: they don't think twice when cornered, they run amuck when pushed too far.

They'd love this down South. Maybe FPJ can even be sent there to help pacify the long running turbulence" ( review written by Emmie G, Velarde on her column LOOSE ENDS on The Tribune Dec 1986)


As a post script to the above:

Yes, they did love this movie down South. They even gave FPJ a very wide margin of votes in the 2004 Presidential elections.

In fact, majority of our Muslim brothers voted for him as their President, as many other Filipinos did.

IT WAS HIM WHO WON THAT ELECTION!

But during the counting, the nefarious disciples of that previous notorious administration deprived the Filipino people of their true President.

In the early hours of the morning when most people are asleep, like the true thieves that they are, a fake President was rammed into the throats of poor Filipinos.

FERNANDO POE, JR. should have been the 14th PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES and not that woman pretender whose greediness has brought her to Congress in the hope that she can escape further prosecution.

The events that followed that ignominious 2004 election and the scenarios unfolding at present attests to this truth.....


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