Break Movie
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There's No Clean Break in Love or Death.
There's no clean break in love or death...
A terminally ill crime boss, known only as The Man, hires a hit man named Frank to carry out his own assassination as well as the assassination of The Woman he loves. When The Woman turns out to be Frank's long lost lover, he turns against The Man becoming the target himself.
| Frank Krueger | Frank |
| Sarah Thompson | The Woman |
| Chad Everett | The Man |
| Mackenzie Firgens | The Mysterious Brunette |
| Michael Madsen | The Associate |
| Charles Durning | The Wise Man |
| Matthew Jones | Haiku |
| James Russo | The Father |
| Xin Sarith Wuku | The China Man |
| David Carradine | The Bishop |
| Whit Hertford | The Lawyer |
| Luca Palanca | The Deaf Goomba |
| Ken Del Vecchio | The Bodyguard |
| Jack Huang | The Restaurant Owner |
| Carin Chea | The Restaurant Hostess |
| Marc Clebanoff |
6.90 out of 10 (26 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Horrid. Total waste of time and effort. Utter crap.
posted on 22 Aug 2009Bad acting. Really bad dialog. There's a character named haiku that speaks only in haikus. It is so bad that its even beyond those moments when your watching something like seventh heaven and you get those douche chills, this you only shake your head and say "what garbage!" This movie fails to elicit any emotional response. Its like a high budget high school movie. Daddy should not be giving his kid money to make this garbage. Please do not be curious and watch this movie to see how bad it is. Its just really dull. It one of those movies that is so bad that you waste your time writing ten lines of text to insure no one else makes the same mistake as you.
Great Indie Flick
posted on 02 Aug 2009I saw Break in Seattle at a festival last year and I must say I'm glad I did. It was one of the only films at the festival with some good names and I was particularly interested in seeing it because I've been a Madsen fan for a long time, although I typically don't expect much from his lower budget projects. I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot more out of this film than the usual Madsen action movie. Madsen actually plays a supporting role (and gives a great performance) alongside some other really great actors like David Carradine, Charles Durning and the girl from Angel. The movie is a bit misleading at first, starting as more of a crime drama/love story, then halfway through morphs into a killer action flick with the introduction of Xin. The fight scenes are some of the most creative I've seen in an indie. There's so much going on in this movie in terms of characters (there's a lot) and side stories (there's several) and genres (crime/drama/action/dark comedy - and those are just the ones I picked up on) yet it all just works. I'm glad to see this movie finally being released and I would definitely recommend watching it if you're up for something original and fun.
A slightly perverse comic-book film noir... with unexpected humor...
posted on 31 Jul 2009Last 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.
Don't waste your time...
posted on 27 Jul 2009Surely, 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
I really liked this film!!
posted on 03 Jul 2009I really, really enjoyed this film!! The idea of matching film noir with a modern action film was so terrific! Fresh approach, unique story line with a sense of humor and a good mix of established stars while introducing some new faces. Great to see so many names on screen lending their talent to a small, independent film. This is what independent film-making is all about. Loved the sensitivity and strength of the lead actor, Frank Krueger, playing a hit man in his first feature and holding his own against, Charles Durning, Michael Madsen, the iconic, Chad Everett and David Carradine in his last completed film before his death. The fight scenes between Frank Krueger and new comer Xin Sarith Wuku are worth the price of admission!! All around really great job!
OK for a Tuesday afternoon with a few really nice bits
posted on 19 Jun 2009May 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!
What a waste of an hour and a half!
posted on 17 Jun 2009If this was supposed to be Mr Carradine's swan song then I'm glad he's gone to a better place! and dose'nt have to read the reviews as because he'd probably died of the shame! Pathetic acting from the entire cast through the film...No depth to the characters, no finesse,the Mr Big,I've never seen such a wimp ! and as with a previous review, I don't think the credit card used for the budget was maxed out! I'm really struggling to find a polite word to say about this movie. I'd heard that David Carradine sadly passed away during the production of this movie but I didn't realise that so did the plot! His scene was real perverse to say the least!! Seriously people ,don't waste your time I've already wasted mine on your behalf!!
What a great movie!
posted on 12 May 2009The 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.
Awful
posted on 28 Aug 2009What 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.