Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans. Step Up: Revolution is the 4th installment of the Step Up Series and it's probably a sequel that simply just doesn't suck. It's not something that you haven't seen before such as the love story, the dancing and the betrayal between friends but the dancing this time is so impressive that you easily forget the fact that it's just not an original idea. The actors and the characters are pretty good and they do their job pretty well, the chemistry between the 2 leads is believable and the soundtrack was also pretty good. Overall Step Up 4 succeeds where other films of this particular not so interesting genre have failed with it's really good dance sequences and even the good acting from a pretty unknown cast. (A+)

Step Up 4: Revolution (2012): Dir: Scott Speer / Dir: Ryan Guzman, Kathryn McCormick, Misha Gabriel, Peter Gallagher, Cleopatra Coleman: Pointless waste of energy about aiming your talents and abilities to greater acclaim. The problem here is that a dance group that calls itself The Mob performs these acts within the midst of social functions. Now, spectators mostly marvel at the impressive visual energy presented, but they are still creating a public nuisance for which viewers are requested to applaud. These dance numbers are well done and are the best compliment to be given here, but the cast are assembled on the line of every stereotype within reach. We have the girl who desires to be a dancer but her father is a wealthy developer who threatens to tear down the area for which The Mob live. She will become involved with one of the dancers and will be torn between her father and her new found hobby. While the actors are pretty much stuck in familiarity, Peter Gallagher is the real victim receiving the bottom barrel shuffle to play this one dimensional role. Cleopatra Coleman plays a DJ who should not quit her day job if this pathetic excuse for entertainment is the best she can arrange for herself. Director Scott Speer brings energy to the dance numbers, which highlight any real creativity the film sustains. Otherwise this just becomes an exercise in horrific screen writing and a group of dancers who would be better off teaching dance classes as oppose to breathing life into a franchise that was dead a long time ago. In the end this lazy film should be stepped on, not stepped up. Score: 3 / 10

Right, the dancing is BRILLIANT! The plot could have been written by a cat. If you've ever watched the other Step Up films, this one's no different. You know what, if you put the plot-writing cat up there for acting, it would be Oscar-Winning compared to the 'actors' doing the film. It's another similarity to the other Step Ups; amazing dancers, crap actors. The floozy in the film's ballet dancing is influenced by the Mob's street dancing. Oh, there's another one for the list! The girl does ballet. Lacking originality, acting, and a good plot, it would get a 4. But, since the dance scenes are pretty spectacular, it's going up to a 6. All I can say is I hope they bring back Moose for the next movie!!!

This 4th in the series is a little better than the last 2 which had degenerated into repetitive Bollywood style dance sequence movies.There is an attractive setting in Miami. The story is okay - dancers vs developers. There are some novel dance sequences with interesting costumes in original settings eg museum, office, on cars etc.The cast is alright. Ryan Guzman is pleasantly charming. Kathryn Mccormick has a pretty face but her legs are a bit stocky for a dancer. Her voice is a little squeaky. Nice to see an older Peter Gallagher as her father.Watchable for what it is. What do you expect anyway?