Raising the Bar

2016

Drama / Family / Sport

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29%
IMDb Rating 5.5 10 1638

Plot summary



February 13, 2023 at 03:19 PM

Director

Clay Glen

Top cast

Kelli Berglund as Kelly Johnson
Emily Morris as Ashley
720p.WEB
892.92 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AlienByChoice 2 / 10

Laughable, man!

There's a fantastic scene in The Big Lebowski, where the enraged Jesus Quintana (John Turturro) screams "Laughable, man!" That's the only thing I could think of when watching this "movie". I surely didn't have high expectations, but I didn't expect anything as bad as what I saw.

Cheap production is all fine, not every movie needs to be a Hollywood blockbuster. But there's a minimum to expect from an indie film. Like... a half decent script. A story line that isn't so unnecessarily convoluted you give up after 20 minutes. Actors who can actually act. Dialogues that don't make you cringe every time someone on screen opens their mouth. Music that doesn't sounds like something out of a pilot for a TV series from the 1980's. But even with all that absent, this is a gymnastics movie. So surely you can show us some great gymnastics routines. Unfortunately, since the actresses aren't gymnasts, the camera has to resort to the most weird angles to obscure the lack of technique, and where stunt doubles are used - to obscure the faces. So not even that.

A laughable effort. 2/10

Reviewed by laughing_cat 5 / 10

The Little Film That Couldn't

You know, you see these little films in the list and decide to give them a try, only to be disappointed. Somehow, with Raising the Bar, I did stick it out till the end, but it was dismal. The acting was so bad. And the energy was very low. I would not recommend it. There are plenty of other low budget movies that are a better use of time.

Reviewed by julcy 3 / 10

Weird to watch

I'm not sure what the director was thinking...for a gymnastics film the camera angles were so off and didn't show anything?! Why are there so many long closups on hands and oddly framed shots without the gymnastics in shot?

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