Jonathan K
This movie is so phenomenally awful that I don't even know if I'm allocated enough text to explain why. For one thing, the movie is shot lifelessly and the audio is all dubbed after-the-fact, in a way where you can actually hear the microphone feedback with literally every line of dialogue; it actually makes me wonder what any of these people (beyond Gary Daniels) sounds like in real life, without the electronic hum. On that note, there is NO reason for Gary Daniels to be in this movie - he is an immensely skilled Martial Artist and Stuntman, and literally the only thing he does in this movie is yell at his "low-class" dish-washer employee to stay away from his daughter. Now, on that note, yes, this movie has lines about classism, two lines near-verbatim: "I won't want my daughter to go out with that..DISH-WASHER!!" and "You're a dishwasher - know your place in life!" This wouldn't be out of place if it took place a century ago, but the movie was made in 2015, and it takes place at that time (not even trying to be a throwback to something like the 80's or 90's), so this whole 'Know Your Station In Life' facet makes no sense, which is bad because it makes up literally 80-90% of the dramatic tension. Now, with that, none of the characters at all likeable - okay, the main hero is at least not-unlikeable, but he is flat and filled with cliched dialogue at every turn, like "You're old - what do you know about dancing?!" You're supposed to feel for him, as he is the aforementioned dish-washer, and as such he is the one to get undeserved negative treatment, but you only feel for him because it's not fair (the most basic way to artificially garner sympathy) and otherwise he's a blank character, mostly nice-enough but sometimes needlessly rowdy. His love interest, however, is even worse. She's just as blank and poorly written, and she has an immensely one-track mind, but not in a way that is cute or endearing. She also has what is easily one of the most unlikeable traits of a leading lady, which can best be summed up with the phrase: "I don't like you, I like him - you're really nice to me, but he has ABS!!!!!" Yes, the main girl in this movie literally chooses him as her love because he has a better figure than the other guys - yes, guys do this, but it's not to find love, but here she projects an intense love-story between the two of them, and it's because, well, he has abs. Their romance is barely Middle-School levels of intellectual, and when they have a falling out in the end of the Second Act, it's painfully trite and idiotic. The fact that the entire screenplay feels like it was written by an AI after showing it the pre-drug scenes of After-School Specials doesn't help, and it's somehow actually worse when the emotional tension is high, falling the movie to fall flat on its face in ways that it could've avoided by trying to make some kind of effort...any at all in fact. It's dumbed-down, sub-par teenage angst at the best of times, and surrounded in a completely pointless and somewhat poorly made movie. Now, there is a cool song where the singer sings 'Running from my angry heart', and that song is cool - easily the highlight of the movie.
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09/19/23
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Fun movie. Quality isn't the greatest. But the dancing is spot on.
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02/07/23
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Unequivocally the worse film I have seen in 10 years. This makes The Room look like Citizen Kane....The Godfather....Ben Hur. JUst terrible
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02/09/23
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Juvenile, silly, and completely forgettable in the never ending slew of dance competition rom-coms.
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01/13/23
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As much as I wanted to like this movie, due to it has Whitney Carson, from Dancing With The Stars....I was just SO bored with this movie!!!! The acting was absolutely HORRIBLE!!!! There was no chemistry between the two main characters...it was clearly forced and came across that way. The storyline was pretty cheesy! I couldn't even get halfway through the movie before I found myself not only bored, but falling asleep.
As much as I like Whitney...she needs to just stick to dancing and not acting....unless she plans on taking some serious acting classes!
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01/31/23
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Destined to join the ranks of 'The Room' and 'Birdemic: Shock and Terror', David Winters' attempt at a coming-of-age dance flick is comically horrendous in just about every way. The robotic acting, awkward writing, and lack of likability in any single character all detract from the fact that these people are genuinely good dancers (but shitty actors).
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02/11/23
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