Past Tense is a 2014 Philippine romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mae Czarina Cruz-Alviar, produced and distributed by Star Cinema.
Starring Comedy Queen Ai-Ai delas Alas Together With Heartrob Loveteam Kim Chiu, and Xian Lim.
This is the next film of Kim Chiu and Xian Lim with Director Mae Cruz-Alviar following Bride for Rent in the same year.
Released on November 26, 2014, Past Tense is the last Star Cinema film of Ai-Ai Delas Alas before she returned to GMA Network.
The nurse played a voice recording of Babs (Xian Lim) retelling about their past.
Until one day they meet again in the coffee shop after she was rejected by her long lost father Senator Perry Tantoco (Johnny Revilla).
Papa Time (Benjie Paras) shows to her and offered her a second chance to fix her life.
Belle was invited to Carlos' bar she can't leave Bhe in the hospital.
Babs is rejecting Belles call and he is avoiding her until he decided to go to San Francisco to move on from her.
Belle hurts and tells Babs that she don't want him to be a part of her life anymore.
In the launching of Carlos' vodka and also the day of Bhe's deadline and a night when Babs going to leave.
Bhe helps Papa Time and the truck arrives and realizes that she stopped the accident.
Papa Time asked Bhe if she is ready to go back to the future but she still watching her happy ending until a truck coming to Belle and Babs.
Back in their future Belle wakes up again from a sleep and she thought that Babs was already dead.
The official theme song of the film is Hey It's Me performed by Juris, originally sung by Jamie Rivera.
[4] Star Cinema released the full trailer of Past Tense on November 11, 2014 and it followed by the promotion of the film on ASAP and It's Showtime with Kim Chiu, Xian Lim, and Ai-Ai delas Alas.
[citation needed] Past Tense was Graded B by Cinema Evaluation Board.
Philbert Ortiz Dy of ClickTheCity.com described his feeling watching the film as "like a bunch of stray ideas stuck together".
While acknowledging Past Tense as having "some interesting thinking" in it, he wrote that this "was tossed aside" in favor of a basic romcom setup.
Past Tense's direction is described by Dy as being bouncy which he says gives energy to the film and acknowledges that the cast gave everything they got.
He says that Past Tense followed the "formula" that made Star Cinema a successful film production outfit.
He describes the film as a steadfastly a romantic comedy not unlike Jerry Lopez Sineneng's Labs Kita... Okey Ka Lang?, Jose Javier Reyes' Kung Ako Na Lang Sana and Ruel S. Bayani's Paano Na Kaya, where best friends "are put under the threat of a predestined love".