Touches You

the audience applauded

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

First off, thought this was a great action packed indie movie with unexpected humor. Second line into the movie and I was laughing. Good plot, believable characters in this scenario. Big fan of Michael Madsen, and wasn't let down! Michael Madsen brings his tough guy charm every time. Frank Krueger nails down the introverted pretty boy hit-man. A little disappointed that I didn't see more of David Carradine or his circus that surrounded him. Thought the Chinaman was a modern gangsta Bruce Lee on steroids which made awesome fighting scenes. All and all thought the director of the film did a great job bringing the story and characters together. Plus this movie kind of leaves you hanging and making you wonder at the end which was cool.

What on earth are Charles Durning, David Carradine and Michael Madsen doing in this pile of rubbish ? OK, true, Charles Durning looks to be in his nineties and David Carradine had made some turkeys before but Michael Madsen ? Whilst no-budget doesn't have to equal bad in this case in does. Oh yes indeedy.Everything has a cardboard feel to it, as if the sets would fall down if you blew on them. The Lead actor is so wooden he's sprouted roots. There are awkward silences in the dialogue; a "crowded" bar translates as two extras, an "empty" bar suddenly has an audience bursting into applause. Its just awful. Avoid.

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!

Last night, we went to see a screening of a new film to see the on-screen debut of my long-time friend and collaborator, singer-songwriter Evyn Charles... a comic-book-styled film noir called "Break"...... and it was good to see Chad Everett again, after all these years, in a pitch-perfect performance as The Man.... and we laughed many times at bodyguard Haiku's haiku sentences, Michael Madson's enthusiasm for BIG women and especially at David Carradine's perverse epicurean sex-voyeur. ("Would you like to feed Rupert?") ... and we agreed that newcomer Xin Sarith Wuku has the makings of a martial-arts movie star with his muscular neo-Bruce-Lee fighting style.Though a bit uneven at times, this film certainly has its pleasures.