BuyBust (2018)
The one thing that director Erik Matti had going for with the years-long marketing for his 2018 film BuyBust is the afterglow from the 2013 film On the Job . This isn't necessarily a bad thing: OtJ was a great film, and the follow-up does a pretty good job of carrying over the spirit–if not the characters–of the previous movie. BuyBust's premise is simple, and familiar: a team of special agents stakes out a buy bust operation, hence the name, and things go south. In this case, it goes incredibly south. Special agents Nina Manigan, Rico Yatco, and their team of PDEA agents end up waging a small war of attrition with the elements of drug kingpin Biggie Chen's operation in the most difficult territory of the slums of Baranggay Gloria ni Maria (sp), Tondo.