I recently bought a Citadel 3.5 CS compact M1911, also made in the Philippines.
I had failure to feed issues, but ONLY if the magazines were loaded with seven rounds. I literally could not manually load a round from a fully loaded magazine. If loaded with six, they were flawless.
I was advised to buy Chip McCormick magazines, and indeed the gun feeds flawlessly from them.
These Philippine M1911s are a great bargain, rivaling the value of the now unavailable Norinco M1911s, while requiring no parts replacement out of the box. My Citadel has an ASTOUNDINGLY good trigger for an out of the box gun.
I would not hesitate to buy another Philippine M1911, and am looking at a full sized .38 Super.