YOUR MOVE is a tiny-budgeted non-starter of a thriller from singer-turned-actor Luke Goss, who also writes and directs. He shouldn't have bothered. Given the lack of money available here, this is a film which goes for attempted character depth but comes across as slow and boring, sleep-inducing rather than profound. As a thriller it simply doesn't thrill; the cliched opener sets things off in a mildly promising way but the pacing quickly drops at that point. Goss is okay as an actor, and Robert Davi is a delight as ever, but the plot is entirely routine and the few action scenes we are treated to are anything but exciting.
33 Reviews
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tygrisnet16 December 2018
It had the potential to be so much better
iGlad5 September 2018
Ok it's his first director movie but this actually started quite well. I was hoping it would become a 3 way game of cat and mouse but it didn't which is a shame. The torture scenes could have been longer and also more interaction with the wife as she never tried to free herself. The chase scene wasn't so good as you could see the reshoot edits.
A better script would have given us a better movie.
A better script would have given us a better movie.
A cringe-inducing turkey (as bad as you would expect)
ryko2530 December 2018
Obviously when you have someone who combines a cringe-inducing lack of self-awareness with a gaping void where creative talent should lie (as in the case of Luke Goss) then you're not going to expect much from a vanity project such as this. But, in fact, this movie is surprising. It's even worse than you would naturally have expected. The only thing of any interest (to anyone but Luke Goss himself) is how this movie was funded? Hopefully he funded it himself - presumably the few radio plays that "When Will I Be Famous" still gets globally must bring in some royalties, because it would be a tragedy if anybody else had been so gullible as to have invested in this hilariously poor home movie.
Your Move
Linda4656320 June 2018
This doesn't deserve the 10 stars that people have given this movie. I rented it because of the reviews. It was poor quality of filming and hard to understand what was being said. All the 10 star reviews look like they were written by the same person.
Horrible!
jefrychang-9826810 February 2019
It really was so bad that I literally threw away the movie as soon as it ended to never ever make the mistake of wasting my time on this crap.... If I could give it a negative star rating I would just so others won't waste there time on this.
Go back to singing
AnonymHansen16 January 2018
So bad...
Harfy16 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Looks like a "Taken" copycat, but miserably fails doing so.
My gf and I started to watch it, but we gave up after 25 minutes in. However, we fastforwarded the movie. We both thought Luke Goss is looking for an Award, as he is seen crying and crying again. But he plays sadness very bad.
There is a cop (Robert Davi)...we found ourselves just asking "what is his purpose here ?!?". He's useless. Period.
So, Goss watch his wife and daughter going to be abducted, using Skype or whatever. The kidnapper is stupid enough to show him his face. Well done, you receive an Darwin Award for this. As Goss has no idea who this jerk is, he's thinking hard and tough ! Wooho I have an idea : my wife was a sport celebrity, let's check her old fans mail ! Gotcha ! Found him !!! This idiot sent his own picture to her !!!
In the end, abduct this guy, then kill him. The end.
My gf and I started to watch it, but we gave up after 25 minutes in. However, we fastforwarded the movie. We both thought Luke Goss is looking for an Award, as he is seen crying and crying again. But he plays sadness very bad.
There is a cop (Robert Davi)...we found ourselves just asking "what is his purpose here ?!?". He's useless. Period.
So, Goss watch his wife and daughter going to be abducted, using Skype or whatever. The kidnapper is stupid enough to show him his face. Well done, you receive an Darwin Award for this. As Goss has no idea who this jerk is, he's thinking hard and tough ! Wooho I have an idea : my wife was a sport celebrity, let's check her old fans mail ! Gotcha ! Found him !!! This idiot sent his own picture to her !!!
In the end, abduct this guy, then kill him. The end.
Not bad for Luke Goss' directorial debut, but his writing was awful
Top_Dawg_Critic14 January 2018
Very rarely do we find an actor who takes on too many roles in his own film and succeeds. Here is another example of that failure.
As actor, producer, writer and director, he was actually impressive for his directorial debut. His acting in this film was pretty decent for a B-grade actor. But he failed miserably in the writing department. Aside for it being only a decent 90 min length film, it felt much longer than that. The pace was very slow and the overly obvious and unnecessarily dragged out scenes should have been edited out. This film would have been better off being 60 mins.
Then there was the huge plot issues and unbelievable scenes - too many to point out and give away the spoilers, but you can't miss them, they're everywhere. He would have been better off passing on the writing and screenplay to someone with more experience to make many scenes more believable and avoid the massive plot and story issues.
The other major and obvious from the start issue was the sound. Someone needed to place the boom mics much closer to the actors. All dialog sounded like it was coming from another room. In some cases, the score was louder than the dialogue and I missed entire sentences. The score was also kinda lame and also made the pace feel slower than it was.
Overall still very ambitious and successful in his directorial debut, and rating this as a low budget amateur B-grade production, it's a 6/10 from me. Did I still enjoy it with its flaws? Yes. Would I recommend it or see it again? Most likely not.
As actor, producer, writer and director, he was actually impressive for his directorial debut. His acting in this film was pretty decent for a B-grade actor. But he failed miserably in the writing department. Aside for it being only a decent 90 min length film, it felt much longer than that. The pace was very slow and the overly obvious and unnecessarily dragged out scenes should have been edited out. This film would have been better off being 60 mins.
Then there was the huge plot issues and unbelievable scenes - too many to point out and give away the spoilers, but you can't miss them, they're everywhere. He would have been better off passing on the writing and screenplay to someone with more experience to make many scenes more believable and avoid the massive plot and story issues.
The other major and obvious from the start issue was the sound. Someone needed to place the boom mics much closer to the actors. All dialog sounded like it was coming from another room. In some cases, the score was louder than the dialogue and I missed entire sentences. The score was also kinda lame and also made the pace feel slower than it was.
Overall still very ambitious and successful in his directorial debut, and rating this as a low budget amateur B-grade production, it's a 6/10 from me. Did I still enjoy it with its flaws? Yes. Would I recommend it or see it again? Most likely not.
Horrible. Slow. Corny. Mediocre acting. Story line garbage
mrsiddeen19 April 2020
Do not watch this. It is slow, no action, poor acting. Given the severity of what the movie is about nobody's actions in the movie respond appropriately to it. I don't recommend this to even let play in the background while your doing miscellaneous things around your house.
Bad
mzefabulous27 December 2020
Quite Good
matthew-723852 August 2018
The acting is fine. The story is fine and the action is fine. It has a good mix of suspense, thrill and action.
He hasn't overly sexualised the female characters although still a little cliche for the 21st century. For example, he could have used a male secretary...
The only real downside to this was the camera editing. The editor was just a little too artistic, which could have been some directing choice too.
Overall, for a first attempt on what is probably quite a limited budget, I think it was quite good and certainly not worth the 1 star reviews floating around here.
He hasn't overly sexualised the female characters although still a little cliche for the 21st century. For example, he could have used a male secretary...
The only real downside to this was the camera editing. The editor was just a little too artistic, which could have been some directing choice too.
Overall, for a first attempt on what is probably quite a limited budget, I think it was quite good and certainly not worth the 1 star reviews floating around here.
Ok 1st timer
velsheph-015371 September 2018
Having seen the film only has 4 out of 10; I'd normally not bother, but as it's Luke from Bros and being a fan; decided to give it a go. I found it slow to start and felt it could have flowed better, both in script and action, however once I got into it, found it quite thought provoking for an action film and so gave it a 6 out of 10; I'm sure Lukes films will improve with experience.
Another worst film! Too slow and not intense! Bored to freaking death!
kwenchow15 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This film start with a man "David" taking food order from a Chinese restaurant, he having video call with his wife "Isabel" and daughter, an unknown man attacking and kidnap both of his wife and daughter scene! As turnout, this film is about David go to Mexico to save his wife and daughter from a crazy fans of his wife(Gabriel)! Entire film slow like hell and bored! Barely intense scene is, David shot Gabriel at the back with a pillow! A bit bloody! Barely laughable scene is, a sign showing no refund, after the woman at the counter taking money from Isabel's sister but she throw away Isabel's sister contact number! At the end, David punching Gabriel on the floor, and save his wife and daughter! At the very end, David playing Russian Roulette with Gabriel, but instead he kill Gabriel with the gun full of bullet! That's it! Another disappointed film!
Amazing!!!
jjad-9766630 January 2018
Luke's directorial debut is a massive success!!
This movie pulls you in from the beginning and keeps you there the whole way through.
Brilliantly written and brilliantly played out by all the actors.
Luke took time to pay attention to the lighting and angles and it paid off.
Absolutely fantastic!
I look forward to more of his movies.
Script improvement
jacksonlu-9218518 October 2018
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It is a good story. Waste too much time on some of indifferent things and without clear picture when and how to got information from bad guy and how he got the information where to save wife and kid. He should be following the guy when bad guy break out hand cut,this part not so clear on the film. It seems too easy and fast jump to the end.
Actor, writer and director.
digger-0635828 July 2019
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Maybe this movie is awful because one person was trying to do too much. The story itself is worth about 15 minutes of time. The movie also could have been done in about 15 minutes. Watch until the kidnapping and then the last 5 minutes and you'll have seen all that there is to see. Kidnap happens on video chat, husband gets really mad, husband finds wife and daughter before police could. He then kills kidnapper. The end. Everything else is pointless filler. Would not be so bad if any of that time had been spent on character development. Instead it is just different scenes that don't build on the story.
Hopefully once money people in Hollywood see how awful this is they will ensure that Goss never gets to direct again. As for his writing, maybe being a former singer he is better off writing three minute songs instead of trying to fill 100 minutes for a movie run time. Actually most songs tell more story in those three minutes that you get from this movie.
Tired old story redone many times, and much better, make this a total waste of time. If you love Luke Goss then maybe you'll enjoy some of this. Otherwise save yourselves and pass this by.
Hopefully once money people in Hollywood see how awful this is they will ensure that Goss never gets to direct again. As for his writing, maybe being a former singer he is better off writing three minute songs instead of trying to fill 100 minutes for a movie run time. Actually most songs tell more story in those three minutes that you get from this movie.
Tired old story redone many times, and much better, make this a total waste of time. If you love Luke Goss then maybe you'll enjoy some of this. Otherwise save yourselves and pass this by.
It's like a bad student film
alexisreusser20 May 2020
Pyscho Thriller
sissy3006-179-64045422 September 2019
I liked the film. I don't care about all the negative Nelly's out there, Luke Goss will keep making films, writing, producing, directing and starring. If you really look at this film, it's about a psychopath that is obsessed with this girl he once knew he kidnaps her and her daughter while the husband watches in horror, now he has to act fast to get his family back, before this crazy man does something really horrible, congrats on Luke's directorial debut.
One hat too many
lotekguy-117 July 2022
Goss the actor - solid. Delivers his usual brand of action-hero competence.
Goss the director - not bad for a rookie, but apparently not good enough to earn another gig behind the camera in the dozen films he's made in front of the lens since then.
Goss the writer - terrible. Plot full of holes; characters whose actions make no sense, all leading to a non-conclusive conclusion. No more screenplay credits either in his films after this one.
When Meat Loaf sang "Two out of Three Ain't Bad", he couldn't have known this turkey would come along to trash his premise.
Goss the director - not bad for a rookie, but apparently not good enough to earn another gig behind the camera in the dozen films he's made in front of the lens since then.
Goss the writer - terrible. Plot full of holes; characters whose actions make no sense, all leading to a non-conclusive conclusion. No more screenplay credits either in his films after this one.
When Meat Loaf sang "Two out of Three Ain't Bad", he couldn't have known this turkey would come along to trash his premise.
Neat thriller
Woodyanders8 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Determined businessman David (a fine and likable performance by Luke Goss, who also wrote and directed) resorts to extreme measures to find his wife and daughter after they are both abducted in Mexico.
Goss relates the riveting story at a brisk pace, offers a flavorsome evocation of the seedy south of the border Mexico setting, maintains a tough gritty tone throughout, builds a good deal of tension, and stages an exciting foot chase with aplomb. Moreover, it's well acted by a sturdy cast: Goss totally nails the anguish his character is feeling, Robert Davi lends excellent support as the hard-nosed Detective Romero, Alain Mora contributes a creepy turn as angry kidnapper Gabriel, and Patricia DeLeon elicits sympathy as the scared Isabel. Jorge Roman's sharp widescreen cinematography provides a striking sun-bleached look. An on the money movie.
Goss relates the riveting story at a brisk pace, offers a flavorsome evocation of the seedy south of the border Mexico setting, maintains a tough gritty tone throughout, builds a good deal of tension, and stages an exciting foot chase with aplomb. Moreover, it's well acted by a sturdy cast: Goss totally nails the anguish his character is feeling, Robert Davi lends excellent support as the hard-nosed Detective Romero, Alain Mora contributes a creepy turn as angry kidnapper Gabriel, and Patricia DeLeon elicits sympathy as the scared Isabel. Jorge Roman's sharp widescreen cinematography provides a striking sun-bleached look. An on the money movie.
It's a low brow thriller that does not offer anything new to the genre
jordondave-280851 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
(2017) Your Move
ACTION THRILLER
Co-produced, written and directed and starring Luke Goss, he plays successful American businessman, David physically witnessing a kidnapping of his wife Isabel (Patricia De Leon) and daughter while video chatting with her visiting Mexico. The kidnapper then leaves the video chat using the words "Your Move"- hence the title. And of course, David then goes on an obsessive rant to find and locate him and her kidnapper despite having to go through many obstacles such as confronting the Mexican detective in charge of the case, Romeo played by Robert Davi. Spoilers It turns out that the "only" kidnapper, Gabriel (Alain Mora) was actually an obsessed stalker since he was always an admirer of her and went nuts as soon as he found out she was with someone else other than him.
Co-produced, written and directed and starring Luke Goss, he plays successful American businessman, David physically witnessing a kidnapping of his wife Isabel (Patricia De Leon) and daughter while video chatting with her visiting Mexico. The kidnapper then leaves the video chat using the words "Your Move"- hence the title. And of course, David then goes on an obsessive rant to find and locate him and her kidnapper despite having to go through many obstacles such as confronting the Mexican detective in charge of the case, Romeo played by Robert Davi. Spoilers It turns out that the "only" kidnapper, Gabriel (Alain Mora) was actually an obsessed stalker since he was always an admirer of her and went nuts as soon as he found out she was with someone else other than him.
Wonderful movie! Luke Goss is the best
jairsouzasalles28 September 2018
A film that messes with our emotional, as if we were in this harrowing situation, makes us think about our family and friends. Luke's greatest performance and even better at directing this film. I particularly liked it, stirred me up, made me think more about our life.
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