You Move You Die

Excellent New Zealand indie film from a promising creative source
You Move, You Die is a really cool little indie film from New Zealand. It reminds me of Mad Max in its modest production value and well planned characters. Don't get me wrong, the story isn't comparable to Mad Max at all, but they both feel like they were made from the same hand.
You Move, You Die is similar to Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels with its criminal action and variety of interconnected plot lines. There is a lot of swearing in this film, but its there to reinforce a character or land a joke. The actors have Australian accents, but anyone who's watched a film with genuine British accents can understand everything said in this film.

Overall it was a good buy and I think there's a bright future out there for Ketzal Sterling.

A Kiwi Reservoir Dogs
**Plot Spoiler**

Ketzal Sterling is the head of a small gang of well dressed thieves-think of the characters in a Quentin Tarentino film like Reservoir Dogs. He's starts out in the morning with a large diamond ring to give to his girlfriend. He's walking down to the shops to meet his mate when he gets robbed. He calls his main man, they find out who the thieves are and begin to track down the stolen ring. In the meantime, they meet up with some interesting kiwi characters.

As it turns out, the ring is a prop for a robbery. Ketzal and his gang recover the ring, go to his girlfriends job, which turns out to be a jewelry shop. We'd been operating under the impression throughout the film that Ketzal was going to propose-hence the desperation to retrieve the ring. Instead he asks his girlfriend to stick the ring in the shop safe. Once she has opened the safe, the crew robs the shop.

Ok. So NZ is a small country. Big budgets for films are rare. A lot of...

Ketzal Sterling has incredible talent.
The first thing I want to say is I am incredibly critical of any movie I watch and it's hard to keep me interested when I can be doing something mroe valuablewith my time.
When I saw this on the shelf in the video store, it seemed like it would follow the template of the Guy Ritchie films. Seeing as Snatch and LS are two of my favorite movies, I gave this one a shot. I was NOT disappointed.
While the production quality is not the same as Richie's films, which is on purpose, it was just as entertaining. You can definitely see the influence.
What's most impressive is this movie was written by Sterling in 7 days and it was filmed in 7 days. Unbelievable.
I laughed almost non-stop.

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