lakrasia The opening scene was good and it went steadily downhill after that. The script was beyond bad, as it went way beyond artistic-licence and made no effort to be even the tiniest bit credible.The characters behaved in ways that made no sense and in the unlikely event that you get drawn into it, I think you'll find one disappointment after another because of this fundamental flaw.It felt like the director was trying too hard to make a stylish film noir. In this he failed abysmally, because there was a complete lack of subtlety, which made the entire effort fall flat on its face.Like many, I expected more of a film with such a cast, so I was very disappointed.

ronisaurus May contain spoilers, if u don't like them don't read IMDb too much or just close your eyes when it spoils!I liked a lot of things about this movie, but i also felt it could have been much more polished if the crew had worked together on it with doubled efforts.First the cold:Starts off with a pretty good noir-like tone! Then comes the letdown: The main character's acting looks a bit dull at the start, but then i kind of started to get the hang of his style, though i never really got to like him. Lots of pauses to emphasize the drama, yet the drama never really moved me... all this with noir-wannabe tunes in the background making some otherwise interesting scenes as dull as possible. Some acts just come out stupid with the settings, the lights, the pauses and the whole setup around them. Some acts are just simply weak and lifeless. Some of the weaker acts of the movie could've stood their ground if only the environments were more fitting (including the music, the colors, the after-imaging). Some parts of the audio mastering was like it just came off the Failboat. The color mastering was decent, but still had a slight stench of FAIL at parts - well at least it was clean, simple but nothing too creative. The pauses... oh those pauses they almost had me fall asleep. It was shouting off of the whole project, that the director (Mr. Clebanoff) intended lots of the film's aspects to be just the way he imagined them - but IMHO even cold-blooded characters should seem to be living creatures, so this heavy portions of lifeless acting really hurt the atmosphere - so, i really hope next time he keeps kicking his actors around until they incorporate breathing, body language and general basic life-signs into their overall acting. Im just typing this in hopes that he might read the comments if out of nothing else, then at least vanity - and spend even more energy in producing his next film whatever it might be... for he pulled off a few really nice things in this one.Now of the better aspects of Break:Madsen with his few lines and lively mimics totally kept my interest in the movie even tho he was only a minor character. So was it with Carradine, seeing him kicking @ss filling his role like the best possible person to do so. Xin... well i kept an eye on him since his urban ninja thing caught my attention on Youtube... he sure cant act yet, but his moves might carry him along a nice long road and i really hope they will. He has to learn to fully and wholeheartedly choreograph his own fights (including teaching his partners), and ways to get to a good understanding with the director and he has to learn a lot of things about having his own raws cut, because while he'll only be employed in low-budget stuff he'll need these skills in order to rise. Oh and i hope i'll see him punch faster in his next flick :) He'll be a rock star if he learns to act as humbly as needed for the big screen. Umm the rest of the crew was okay, even Matthew Jones with his seemingly thuggish and intentionally dumb acts. The girls were... also not very strong in acting, but at least nice looking. The ending broke my heart (it was so boring compared to the rather fun parts of the film) ^^And the winner is:The one that has the weight of the world on his shoulders, and the budget limits, and the time limits, and the coffee-intake capacity limits, and of course the magnificent ability of still not giving enough of s#&t about his own project while working his @ss off trying his best: Mistarrrrrr Clebanoff :D /applaud him you all-ignorant "gimmebackmy90minutes" crazies, for he did well this round/ - for all in all he made you a pretty decent movie with some really nice parts and some solid casts + a unique atmosphere like no recent movies -I hope this guy gets to learn from the reflections of this work of his to make us enjoy much-much better movies than this. And this one turned out to be pretty enjoyable. I'm totally buying this DVD if for nothing else, then to FFW into the parts which i really like about this movie and show them to some friends - for it's been a long time i last enjoyed such great scenes (even if there were so few of them in a movie ^^)See it if you have spare time for a nice and unique low-budget movie!

mokane-1 The dialog of this movie is great, you got to love David Carradine's (RIP) part, he was the high light of this movie, going to miss that SOB! Never the less, this movie did not have to much on the way of action, but it does not need it not with Michael Madsen's way of cracking a few lines, and Frank Krueger's screen presence. Watch out for Xin Sarith Wuku, he's going to some one to watch for in action movies. Heck I thought Charles Durning was dead, have not seen this guy for a while, but he did a great job as the wise man. This is defiantly low budget, none the less it's great, you get to see and hear the script as it truly deserves to be read by very talented actor and actresses. Regarding this movie I wish the the big budget producers take note and use the talent and script available to them and produce movies that are worth watching. You've got to see this movie, just listen to the lines and be amazed.

evilgc Surely, the credit card maxed out to make this movie could have been spent on something better. The storyline in parts doesn't make any sense. The directing is not even worthy of a Smithy. The acting is just as bad as the storyline and direction. Trust me, you will thank me later. Save 90 minutes of your life and steer clear of this film.(please excuse the rest of this. IMDb requires 10 lines of text to post and this movie isn't worth the extra lines so here's some filler)Here's the exact same summary to fill space:Surely, the credit card maxed out to make this movie could have been spent on something better. The storyline in parts doesn't make any sense. The directing is not even worthy of a Smithy. The acting is just as bad as the storyline and direction. Trust me, you will thank me later. Save 90 minutes of your life and steer clear of this film.GC