Showdown in Manila

Two private detectives living and working in Manila, Nick Peyton and Charlie Benz, take on a murder case that leads them into the Philippine jungle. There they find a camp controlled by an international terrorist and his armed mercenaries. Because they do not trust the local police, the two assemble a small team of fighters and set out to raid the stronghold on their own. The story moves between the city and a tropical island setting.

Showdown in Manila is an action film directed by Mark Dacascos, who is better known as an actor and here works from a screenplay by Craig Hamann, with Alexander Nevsky producing. Casper Van Dien plays Charlie Benz and Nevsky plays Nick Peyton; Don Wilson appears as Dillon, Tia Carrere as Mrs. Wells, Cynthia Rothrock as Haines and Matthias Hues as Dorn. The credited cast runs to forty names. It was released in February 2016 and runs eighty-six minutes.

The film's reception was poor. On IMDb it holds a rating of 2.7 out of 10 from roughly 2,200 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 3.4 out of 10 from a much smaller number of votes. The gap in vote counts reflects how few viewers logged it on the latter platform rather than any difference in how the two audiences judged it. Both point to a film that found little favour.