Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

It's all something of a stunt - "Speed" on a shoestring - but very well done.

Film Threat

A thoughtful and skillfully developed story and a true Independent film.

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

Cavite is such a shrewd melding of form and content that any seeming contradictions and shortcomings end up working to the film's advantage.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

It's easy to envision the big-budget remake, but hard to imagine a mainstream American production capturing the original's sour, sweaty immediacy.

L.A. Weekly

As you stagger out of the theater after 78 breathless minutes of Gamazon and Dela Llana's electrifying location shooting and disquieting insights into Christian-Islamic tensions, you may well feel that your eyes have been opened too.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

A textbook example of seat-of-the-pants guerrilla filmmaking.

Variety by Robert Koehler

For a guerrilla-style, no-budget Yank indie to even tackle issues of jihad terror and naive Western thinking is noteworthy in itself, but Gamazon and Dela Llana inflame the issues with a gutsy, athletic filmmaking package that shows what can be done with a minimum of tools.

New York Post

There is more style here than story, but the style - slashing cuts delivered in queasy orange sunstroke tones, accompanied by the urgent bleat of the cellphone - is considerable.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

The hand-held camera work gives the film an effective documentary pulse, but it adds up to only half a movie.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

The only rational explanation for how an abysmal no-budget film like Cavite could get released theatrically is that its makers, co-writer/directors Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana, have come up with a from-the-headlines hook too big to deny.