Most of the supporting actors are good for almost only one frame exposure, that dispensing with them may still not affect carrying out the exposition’s motives.īut the biggest star of the film, is no doubt the player of the titular character, himself, Dennis Trillo. There are some awkwardly inserted plotlines that may be necessary but placed at wrong places, and are more effective only at disrupting the seamless progression of the story rather than enforcing them. In some parts, such number works in delivering some crucial moments of the church’s history, but looses complete sense in the entirity of its 3 hr-run. There are atleast, a hudred of stars, gathered to pull off this stellar production.
He hops from one religion to another in search of the “true church” he insists should only follow what is written in the bible, until he finally establishes the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ), an act he claims to be a mere restoration of the true church that Jesus Christ, himself, founded in the 1st century. For most of his young life, Manalo is a devout Roman Catholic, but he eventually grows dissatisfied by the church’s teachings, which leads to a major turning point–leaving the Catholic faith. Opening in the rural countryside of Tipas in Taguig, “Felix Manalo” begins with Mylene Dizon’s character delivering a child–our titular character, Felix Manalo.