Talk Back and You're Dead is a 2014 Filipino romantic comedy-action film directed by Andoy Ranay, starring James Reid, Nadine Lustre and Joseph Marco and is based on the bestselling novel of the same name originally published on Wattpad by Alesana Marie.
In the present day, Miracle Samantha Perez is inside a bookstore and notices her friend Michie confronting Timothy Odelle "Top" Pendleton with his girlfriend outside.
While taking up an exam later, Samantha receives a call from Top, but she curses him when greeted rudely, resulting in her phone being confiscated by her teacher.
Top arrives with his gang at St. Celestine to abduct Samantha where Jared "Red" Dela Cruz brings her to a night club.
Back at school, Samantha hears some rumors that Red's sister, Audrey Dela Cruz, has a gangster boyfriend from Pendleton High named Top.
At St. Celestine, the Lucky 13 gang tells Samantha that Top is waiting outside before playing a live song performance.
Two years later, Samantha receives a call from Audrey that Top got into an accident after he mysteriously vanished without anyone knowing.
She goes to the beach house and she watches a video footage of a boy and a girl making promises to each other that they will be getting married someday, as seen in the beginning of the film.
Samantha sees his realization that he has lost his sight, and Top asks God for a miracle because he badly needs one.
Translation: Come What May), a duet featuring the two stars of the film, Nadine Lustre and James Reid.
According to the showbiz news reporter Ginger Conejero of TV Patrol, the film earned PHP 30 Million on its first 3 days of showing.
[14][15] Box Office Mojo places the total gross of PHP 76,941,733 as of September 14, 2014, second to the top-grosser Rurouni Kenshin.
Philbert Ortiz-Dy of Click the City gave a mixed review in the film, stating that "The film just feels hastily assembled, its only real purpose to provide another platform for the onscreen pairing of Nadine Lustre and James Reid [...] but the pair works best outside the machinations of the plot, when the movie simply gives them the room to linger in an intimate moment."
What starts out as a weird little tale of animosity growing into affection turns into a monster of melodramatic convolutions reliant on information that's mostly hidden from the audience.
"[17] Zig Marasigan of Rappler gave a negative review of the film, stating "Trying to make sense of Talk Back and You're Dead is very much like watching a snake eat its own tail.
The snake eventually dies from its own gastric juices, and all you're left with is a reptilian corpse that is just too eager but too consumed to tell its tail from its meal.