You Move You Die (2007) (V)

Director:

Ketzal Sterling

Writer:

Ketzal Sterling (story)

Release Date:

4 July 2007 (New Zealand)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

A new breed of gangster.

Plot:

Mike has the girl, the time and the place. The problem is he doesn't have the ring. Before Mike has...

Plot Keywords:

Ring | Dark Comedy | Engagement | High Octane | Theft

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Ketzal Sterling	...	Mike
Julian Harrison	...	Rob
Patrick Clarke	...	Leroy
Jonathan Allen	...	Wax
Bruce Hopkins	...	Officer Smuggler
Leigh Hart	...	Police Officer
Matt Davison	...	Nickel
Ashleigh Ogden	...	Emma
Simon Prast	...	Parking Warden
Jarrod Martin	...	Gang Leader
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chrystal Ashford	...	Florist
Daisy Barclay-Economos	...	Marcy
Karl Burnett	...	Carpet Cleaner
Nicola Fitzsimmons	...	Giselle
Angela Gough	...	Drycleaners Victim
Nina Lovrich	...	Shopper
Paula Mataele	...	Super Cop
Kaleb Mearns	...	Dive Shop Assistant
Damon Moore	...	Security Guard
Carwyn Morrison	...	Gang Member #1
Chris Page	...	Gavin
Sarah Sanford	...	Michelle

Runtime:

New Zealand:90 min

Country:

New Zealand

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Auckland, New Zealand

Company:

Grid Productions

Trivia:

Flyen, Ketzal Sterling's own project MR2 turbo, makes an cameo appearance at the beginning of the film. This is the car he's modified over the years in his High Octane series of films.

Quotes:

Mike: You shot her?
Rob: Yeah.
Mike: You don't think that's a bit excessive?
Rob: No, not really.

Lock, stock and bottom of the barrel

Alas, Francis Ford Coppola was wrong. The digital camera revolution has not resulted in an explosion of talent gracing our screens. All it has delivered is the never ending glut of amateur material, posturing as cinema, that clog the shelves of video stores worldwide. YOU MOVE YOU DIE is a continuation of this never ending cycle of sub-mediocre, ego- driven and wholly wretched home-movies.

Suffering through YOU MOVE YOU DIE is like watching a gang of young schoolboys, inspired by a movie they just saw, playing Goodies and Baddies as they chase each other around the drab back streets of their boring small town. They play-fight and play-act, and do all things their parents would frown upon (like swearing and smoking). The jolly romp is all made up on the spur of the moment and after an hour or so, they're so darn tuckered out from all the tussling and screaming and pointlessness of it all, so they simply...stop.

Now imagine a group of age-retarded adult men in their thirties, doing the above. Yet sadder still, is their friend with a video-camera who's followed them around as they playact like little kids- bored during the summer holidays. Then afterwards, they all wearily (but satisfied and with much backslapping) go back home to endlessly watch themselves replayed on telly, over fizzy drinks and chips as they collectively fantasize about hanging out with Tarantino.

That pretty much sums up wrist-slitting banality that is YOU MOVE YOU DIE.