Make Your Move

Movie Title--  Make Your Move

Release Year--  2013

Running Time-- 1 Hour and 50 Minutes

Director--  Duane Alder

Cast--  Derek Hough, BoA, Will Yun Lee, Wesley Jonathan, Jefferson Brown

It is love at first sight for two dancers in New York City but they find themselves in the middle of a bitter rivalry between their brothers.  

Donny (Derek Hough) skips parole in New Orleans to go to New York City where he is looking to get a job as a dancer in his brother Nick's (Wesley Jonathan) club.  Once Donny gets there, he asks Nick when he will get to meet his business partner Kaz (Will Yun Lee).  Nick explains that Wall Street lawyer, Michael (Jefferson Brown) came into the club one night and after seeing Kaz's sister Aya (BoA) became obsessed with her and talked Kaz into leaving the partnership to partner with him and start a new club, in the hopes that Aya would fall for him.  Nick then finds out that Aya and her group of drummers/dancers have come into his territory to practice and runs them off, taking their drums as a fee.  Aya then sneaks into the club, where her girls perform and get their drums back.  

It is love at first sight for Donny and from that moment, he wants to be close to her.  After meeting her, he finds out that she is looking for an agent to pick her up so she can obtain a work visa or she will be deported back to Japan.  Their brothers try to keep them apart, which only causes them to grow closer.  Donny gets arrested for assault and is told that the charges will be dropped if he leaves Aya alone and goes to to New Orleans but Donny isn't prepared to go without one last dance.

I won't lie, the story isn't that great.  I mean it really is a generic "Romeo and Juliet"/Hollywood love story type film; man and woman fall in love, their families try to pull them apart which drives them closer together, an obstacle comes up that they must over come, happy ending for all.  We have all seen this movie a million times in all different forms.  It is the dancing and the music that makes this story unique.

Derek Hough is the main start of the film and surprisingly he does a great job leading the film.  I am a big fan of "Dancing with the Stars" so I am familiar with him as a dancer but not as an actor.  The role of Aya is played by BoA, a K-Pop singer from Korea.  I am sorry to say that I am not quite as familiar with her as I am with Derek but she did a good job as his leading lady.  The most important thing about this film is the dancing.  The dancing in the film is amazing.  I could honestly watch this movie over and over again just for the dancing and the music isn't too bad either.

I would say the story in this film is kind of a flop but I really don't think that is actually what the film was made for anyway.  I believe this film was made purely to showcase the dancing and I feel like in order to make it into a real film they needed to put some kind of story behind it, so they chose to make it into a "star-crosses lovers" type of love story.  No one can argue that the dancing isn't excellent in this film and for that I say sit down and watch this film.  If you have a love or passion for dancing, then you will like this one.  It may even have you on your feet dancing along with the beat.  Don't Forget the Popcorn.