Touches You

best movie i've ever seen.

A lot of fun.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

While, this movie is cover with icy flaws like cheesy jokes, bad editing, awful special effect, and mostly mediocre acting. This poor man's version of 1988's film, Die Hard action concept mixed with a 1993's film, 'Cliffhanger', snow settling is still a fun watch. After all, where else, would you see somewhat intense scenes involving snowboarding, snowmobiles, ski lift, and even a snow plow!? Because of that, this movie is somewhat a guilty pleasure for me, because how entertaining, the action scenes were. It remind me, a little bit of 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service with 2002's Extreme Ops, with its plot. Directed and written by David Giancola, the movie tells the story of an everyday ski patrolman, Matt Foster (Sean Astin) trying to stop terrorists when they to attempt to take over a mountain ski resort with a stolen nuclear weapon. Without spoiling the movie, too much, I have to say, the jarring things about this movie is how unrealistic, some of the plot elements are, and the filmmakers choices for the main leads. First off, the choice of Sean Astin as the lead. I like him, as an actor, but he really doesn't makes a very convincing main lead action-hero. His stunt work is pretty damn poor. Yes, he has some heroic like qualities; but most of the time, Sean Astin's character acts so selfish, clumsy, and dumb-founded, that some people might hate his character. Not only that, but Matt Foster's stupid decisions, would had cost the death of the hostages, and himself, a million time, over if this was really happening. Honestly, who throws a snowball at a man, holding a rocket launcher gun or a VHS tape at a woman with a machine gun? Even a candy pez was used as a weapon! It's a bit funny that the only reason, why he survive for so long in the film, was because of bad writing, pure luck, and bad decision making by the villains. A good example of this, is when the villain capture him, only to let Matt Foster free, later on the film, because the main terrorist, Carl Greig (Bruce Campbell) felt that he needed to die, better. What type of villain does that? I get that, Carl Greig might be dying, and he felt bad, for Matt's wimpy behavior, but we never really got to know, what his motivations were. It's confusing; because one minute, he's killing everybody like a mad man, and the next, he giving people, a fair fight. Another thing, that doesn't make sense about the bad guy is how he wants to detonate a nuclear bomb in a city, but due to an absurd turn of events, he has only has a few weapon-uranium in a winter-based settling of Killington Peak. There is no way, he could set off a bomb, even if he want to, on the "Beast of the East". First off, the negative temperature is coefficient of reactivity. 2. He doesn't have the critical mass to unleash the weapon and third, his choice is Killington, a small town, 6.2 miles away, with a population least than 800 people. Even if, he get the bomb going, his target of Killington is way too far away. I guess, the fallout from the blast, could be bad, but everybody would had been evaluated from Killington before the bomb is set off, because of the hostage situation. His plan doesn't work, well. Despite that, the bald Bruce Campbell is fine in the role even if he looks weird. I just wish, the movie would explain, what illness, he was indeed dying from; because it's seem like Campbell working with no information about who his character was. Another thing, that was unclear, is why his henchmen would go along with this plan, since it clear in the movie, that they value their lives. For the most part, the supporting characters weren't so bad. However, some of them, were a bit too cartoony. A good example of this, was the forest ranger, Beck (Mark 'Woody' Keppel). The actor that played him, was a little over-the-top comedy relief. Even the crazy actor that play, the lodge owner, Clay (Rick Kincaid) would had told him, to tone it down. Still, they were somewhat a hoot to watch. One of the better performance in the film is Stacy Keach who plays Matt Foster's father in law, Bill. I like how, badass, they made him, be. One character that I can do, without is the Will Langley (John James), the FBI agent. He was pretty much, pointless. Adding nothing to the plot. Thank God, he wasn't in the film, long. Another thing, that didn't do much for me, is the 90 alternative rock music that came along with the film. It felt like a lame early winter X-Games commercial, most of the time. Second off, when the movie felt like using classical music. They played it way too long. Beethoven 9th symphony is a good example in the beginning of the film. We get it, it's "Ode to Joy", an obvious nod to "Die Hard", can you start the movie, now. It just doesn't fit, well, with the tone of the film. However, I do like the establishing shots, they got from filming at Killington Ski Resort. It made me, want to visit there, one day. Overall: This directed to video movie is watchable. Not a terrible film, but more of a rental than a purchase. Check it out, if you like cheesy action flicks.

It's always sad to see someone else's personal disaster. What makes this so much worse is that it's a personal disaster for so many people. Everyone gets the blame for this stinker that wouldn't even get a screening in a local film festival (if there was truly justice in the world.) Bad acting, predictable story line, unrealistic plot elements, bad acting, poor stunts and special effects, and did I mention the bad acting? It starts with the stupid villain who pulls a gun to stop the pilot from crashing the plane. I mean really, what's he gonna do? Shoot the pilot? Ends up with the same result, plane crashes. Then the bad guy lives. Lets skip the bad dialog, and go to the terrorists that drive like crazies, and the cops that blast up the land rover. How about the terrorists that can't hit the broad side of a barn. They did miss many opportunities for people to spray and pray with the automatic weapons.And how about taking a whole resort hostage. Fraid not. not enough man power. Oh yea, call your girlfriend for lunch? sure, never mind calling the police. I gave up watching at this point because I had better things to like trimming my toenails and taking out the garbage.In the end, there are only two realistic plot elements. First, the terrorists cut the phone lines. Second, the rich girl wants to marry the fun bum. Dad (and Matt) was wrong, girls like her do marry losers like Matt.

You know, it's not The Lord of The Rings and it's not The Evil Dead, but this movie is well worth watching. I mean, how can you go wrong with Samwise vs. Ash? I love Sean Astin and I love Bruce Campbell. This is a great B movie. A lot like the ones you see on TBS on Saturday afternoon, but still very good. I bought a copy. Might I add that Sean's character is the nicest guy in the world. And the manager of the mountain is hilarious. Who better to run the mountain than a machine gun wielding geek who just happens to be an flaming homosexual. "It's time to kick it." "Kick what?" "Asth Tilley, Asth." I love it. I recommend you watch it at least once. Not to mention that Sean Astin looks good in Rescue Red.

I don't know why I even comment on this one. I guess it is out of pity for those who think of watching this. DON'T. Filled with inconsistencies, low budget comedy, low budget action, low budget actors and predictable scenes. Have fun instead and go watch a Chicago Bulls game (only if you are a fan of the Bulls). You might laugh at this though, if you're intoxicated, but i was not so:1 out of 10