I'LL BE THERE WITH YOU is a very cheap little indie thriller, made in Americ by the Japanese actor Akihiro Kitamura (of THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE infamy). The story features various sub-plots and intermingling characters and focuses on romance, sex, relationship stuff, and a little violence to boot. Cast-wise, it's an entirely undistinguished piece of filmmaking, with only a slumming-it Daniel Baldwin appearing in support. The worst thing about this is the lack of coherence and narrative drive, with the lack of focus making it near unwatchable.

Beginning with the now clichéd 'based on true events' bs and showing most of the main characters dead at a crime scene before going two days earlier for the film to properly start. A group of people from various walks of life are at a party when they decide to take a trip to San Diego where they stay at a ranch owned by Constantine (Daniel Baldwin). But before the night is up things will take a much darker turn.Marketed as a horror movie, in actuality this badly acted film is more honestly a drama akin to the likes of one would see on the Lifetime station on any given day. The direction is pretty much a mess and the motivations of any of the characters rang hollow to me. I found myself checking my watch on multiple occasions hoping and wishing that the movie would just end. Daniel Baldwin has been in worse films before (I still break out in cold sweats merely thinking about "Vegas Vampires") but this one is still pretty awful.Eye Candy: Adarsha Benjamin gets topless, as does Elisabeth Donaldson (but in her case it's far from sexy due to the circumstances)My Grade: DDVD Extras: We get a 36 minute Making-of & a photo slide show

I'll Be There with You: 3 out of 10: This movie is a mess. It threatens to become an interesting mess; but alas, it is in reality just a mess.The first clue something is wrong, is this movie’s supposed genre. Apparently, it is a horror movie. I’ll Be There With You is no more a horror movie than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was. It has horrific elements certainly, but it is more of a drama and a relationship drama at that. Whether director Akihiro Kitamura meant to make a horror film or the marketing department at Celebrity Video Distribution simply choose to label it as a horror film is unknown.Now what director Kitamura meant by this film is somewhat of a mystery; it is all over the place. There is a relationship drama, bar pick-ups, date rape, non-date rape, strange computer graphics from someone’s Commodore Amiga, escaped criminals killing, Japanese nerd comic relief, and Daniel Baldwin.Indeed a bloated Daniel Baldwin gives the best performance of the film. That alone should be condemning with faint praise. In fairness, the ladies in the cast (Adarsha Benjamin, Michelle Lawrence and Elisabeth Donaldson) are decent if somewhat unpolished, but the male lead Akihiro Kitamura is a black hole of charisma. Kituamura’s tearful denouement is cinematic pain defined. (I would blame the director but they are the same guy.) With its lack of focus and bizarre computer generated sequels I’ll Be There With You reminds me of that mess Demonlover. But with a lower budget and less talent on both sides of the camera I’ll Be There With You’s mess is even less enjoyable.There are a couple of good movies in here somewhere. Unfortunately, this is not one of them.

WOW!! Congratulations Dotan I knew you would make it in Hollywood can't wait to see you again on the big screen!!! Oh, I have to write ten lines. They(yes you people in Hollywood who ever you are) should make more films this way where they don't spend 200 million dollars to make Fantasyquest with big huge names that are boring to watch. This movie had actors from all backgrounds and walks of life and was a really great representation of life in America where many cultures, ethnicities and religions all strive and fight for the same thing, a chance at a great life with love, happiness and equality. Which makes the end of this film a classic American tale!!!Congratulations to Aki Kitimara, I notice he is a Japanese born native directing his first film in English - not to many Americans can even identify Japanese much less write and direct a film in it.