Step Up: Revolution has done the impossible, or if I were sinfully optimistic, but even so, it has done the improbable. Overdone? I'd like to think slightly otherwise. A film that centers strictly around dancing, with only dancing as their selling point, or as restaurateurs would say, their "focal point", can be outrageous to draw appeal. One has to shun all logic and reason and embrace utopian circumstances, distract the mind with sick beats, sicker choreography, and sickest (I'd like to use sick because awesome doesn't feel it has cut it. Not to mention it validates disbelief.) visual effects if visual effects were even remotely responsible for such an impressive production.
It has an original concept. That's why Russovoir thought it was interesting. And remember how dancing as its selling point? It did two (2) things: 1) It invested on dancing too well, too soon that disinterest slowly had a duet with 2) It dragged on. Most of the performances were mind-blowing, vivacity often at a boiling point, but observing closely, it wears you out in between scenes because you realize 1) Ryan Guzman (lead actor) has little of a stage presence than he is with his crew, and that affected 2) the chemistry that is nowhere near a lab accident with Katharine McCormick (lead actress).
But with a semblance to a repeat chorus of a fading, favorite song, the film picks up with a climax what one finds the vivacity to sing again, and ends finally with one feeling good and giddy inside.
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| "Sometimes it's okay to break the rules." |
Hand to my crotch and thrusting it upward, the skeptics, pessimists, and cynics will surely not enjoy Step Up: Revolution as much as those who overlook poor security, daft city councilors, inexplicable source of funding, suspicious increase of members, and an insane business venture that led to an expensive defeat. It's only pure kinetic energy trying to penetrate the body; one has to decide where to make use of it: in the brain or otherwise capable of busting a move?
I watched it last night! It did not disappoint as it is, for me, the best of all the movies in this series - mainly because of these cute little concepts in their performances (kinda reminds me of our good old Company of Ateneo Dancers - sick performances, too!). Well, you make a fine point there with the lead and his chemistry with his partner. What I actually find funny is that Moose outshined him in the ending scene where he just had, errr a few lines. :))
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