Review of Sukob

I watched Sukob here at Cerritos, CA because of the heavy promotions it had on TFC, plus with all the claims that it was to date, the highest grossing "Filipino film of all time". I must say that I'm impressed with the technical aspect of the film. Chito Rono's films have been visually superior before, and Sukob is no exception. I'm really excited with his film-making style and given the chance to direct a movie here in Hollywood with a Hollywood budget and equipment, I believe he will be at par or even better than M Knight or say, Christopher Nolan. Anyways, what Sukob lacks is a credible, logical plot, well, OK, since this is a movie, and since they did put effort on the technical side, we could forgive the silly plot. But, given its silly plot, the movie went a very predictable route, again, maybe we could spare its predictability a bit, the movie did made up for its good sound, stunning cinematography and ensemble performance. But what seems to be the problem with this movie? Why does it still feel lacking? My answer is, the ending, where they killed off Kris Aquino's character, (and to remind the viewer's about the medium's warning that someone has to die, they played her voice over, what are we stupid?) they should've let her live, I believe it would've been more satisfying. Here is where the movie falters, when it tried to be "credible", where in fact the plot wasn't in the first place. I mean, if you know you have a plot that is problematic in the beginning, stick with it, the supposed "curse" wasn't really explain well, and the superstitious belief of 2 siblings getting married in the same year or a death in a family and marriage in a year spells bad luck, c'mon, it sounds silly! But since people believe in that, we have to respect that, but, another but, that doesn't mean that it'll be a good plot for a horror film. Again, I'm gonna contradict myself, Sukob was a technically-good film, but as for story and weight, its very thin. The issue with this film is although it is good, it's so overrated.