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Summary: At the Angelika......NOT!
Review: This film has a few interesting scenes, but it has some mighty silly ones, too. The gentleman who plays the cop seems destined for the next Hercules cycle. Mugs mostly. At the beginning of the film, he seems to disdain the thought of gay sex. He sure does change his tune in a hurry, and without much fanfare. Oh, and the mystery aspect? The buddy did it. That's certainly original.The little guy who plays the hustler holds his own. Not much character development in the film, so he has to wing it. Does a decent job. Can't recommend the film, though.
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Summary: Trite plot line and bad acting
Review: This has got to be one of the worst movies since "Plan 9 from Outer Space." In fact, Ed Corbin's frozen face throughout the movie made me think he would be great in a remake of Plan 9. I had a hard time deciding what was worse, the ridiculous plot or the bad acting. In the end it's a toss up. Save your money.
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Summary: Good movie and great music!
Review: This is a long overdue development of a relationship between two men with all their accompanying past histories. The storyline is good and the student/streethustler character intriguing. The late night scenes of Atlanta alone are worth viewing. Now to the music. Does anyone know how to purchase the songs from the track? I own the movie and would like to have the songs.
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Summary: HAUNTING FILM
Review: THIS is the type of movie i've been waiting for! Watch it once as just a movie, then turn on the directors comments on the dvd and listen to how much of it is taken from real life. The sound track to this movie grows on you real fast. The plot moves on at a speed to keep your attention at all times. You can tell theres a lot left on the cutting room floor that makes you long for the directors cut of the movie. i expect great things out of BEN TAYLOR in the future. HE must be a perfectionist cause this move turned out so perfect.
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Summary: This is a good movie and it's worth seeing.
Review: This movie has a lot going for it. The two lead characters are both attractive and competent actors. The supporting cast, all with little or no prior acting experience, are all excellent. The script could be a little better. There are a few unlikely moments and some of the plot points were muddled and confusing, but overall it held my interest throughout. It has the advantage of not being the typical gay themed movie. It's just a story about people, and their sexuality is secondary. It does not have the look of a typical low budget movie. It shows what a producer and director can do without much money, but with the talent to make the most of limited resources. A bigger budget would not have made the movie any better. Dane Ritter and Ed Corbin are both talented actors. They achieve a level of believability in their roles that is rarely seen in low budget movies. Ben Taylor wrote the script and directed.
He managed to do a lot with a small budget, but also with the advantages of a good cast and a lot of creativity. This is definitely worth seeing.
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Summary: This is a good movie and it's worth seeing.
Review: This movie has a lot going for it. The two lead characters are both attractive and competent actors. The supporting cast, all with little or no prior acting experience, are all excellent. The script could be a little better. There are a few unlikely moments and some of the plot points were muddled and confusing, but overall it held my interest throughout. It has the advantage of not being the typical gay themed movie. It's just a story about people, and their sexuality is secondary. It does not have the look of a typical low budget movie. It shows what a producer and director can do without much money, but with the talent to make the most of limited resources. A bigger budget would not have made the movie any better. Dane Ritter and Ed Corbin are both talented actors. They achieve a level of believability in their roles that is rarely seen in low budget movies. Ben Taylor wrote the script and directed.
He managed to do a lot with a small budget, but also with the advantages of a good cast and a lot of creativity. This is definitely worth seeing.
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Summary: An interesting disappointment
Review: This movie, shot on a low budget, shows some surprising competency in its crisp editing and nicely lit cinematography, and it is a pleasure to see a movie set somewhere else other than L.A. or New York. In this case the locale is Atlanta, where a young hustler (Dane Ritter) is implicated in the brutal murder of one of his johns. A sympathetic detective (Ed Corbin) provides the boy with an alibi and a place to stay until the storm blows over. Of course the cop is a closet case, and mutual feelings develop between the two men. So far, so good. The movie's downsides include some uneven acting. Corbin, who is certainly easy on the eyes, turns in a largely wooden performance and puts one uncomfortably in mind of Gregory Walcott, the square jawed lead from Ed Wood's legendary PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE. Still his bountiful physical charms often allay this discomfort, and the one stunning shot of his bare backside should have the viewer pressing the PAUSE button. Ritter, on the other hand, is much more convincing as Oliver. Handsome in an unconventional way, he is magnetic, funny, thoughtful, and sexy. With the right breaks he could find himself doing more mainstream roles. The movie's biggest disappointment, however, is the rather chaste treatment of the male-male "affair." Early in the movie there's a somewhat graphic shot of Oliver and his "girlfriend" enjoying l'amour (another nice moment for lovers of the male derriere), but there isn't even a kiss between Ritter and Corbin, and the viewer sits saying, frustratedly, "Get on with it, you two! Get on with it!" The excuse is the men do not want to cloud the purity of their feelings with sex. Right. Fine. But no kiss? One suspects instead squeamishness on the part of the two leads. This is still fairly entertainly and worth a look for the curious.
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Summary: Steamy
Review: This semi-dark mystery was entertaining and pretty engrossing all the way through. A cop is assigned to go undercover at a hustler bar because of reported drug dealing ect... there, meets a cute guy who seems a bit more intelligent and together than the rest of the patrons. Later, that younger guy is involved and possibly framed in a brutal murder. The cop is torn, does he trust him? Will his attraction to him interfear with the case? Why would anybody frame him? This movie kept you entertained with the only problem being I thought the actor playing the police officer was a bit too wooden.
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Summary: If Only This Were A Real Movie
Review: Well I have watched this film on both DVD and video. The problem with this film centers on the writing and what the director thinks gay means. First the good points- and there are few: The actors are very handsome, the music is interesting, the camera angles can be good. The writing has the taste of a bad Rockford Files. No one talks as though the words mean anything and no one has the passion it takes to ride over the lack of words. The plot-so thin and meaningless- is also confused and weird : Are the main characters gay or just acting, Is Oliver going to school, selling his [rear] or working at Towers, Can he really love a sister who he enables and why not arrest him for that? Also a gay movie were I see hetro sex and no homo sex, where the main guys never kiss, where we are never sure how they feel about being is not a gay film. Ben Taylor is more confused than his actors- he makes the women far more appealing than the men. I see a film that had promise if the director wasn't scare of being gay and real. I also see a film- that written on its own level- might not have been bad. But the film suffers because the writer/director is suffering and doesn't the sense to know that.
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Summary: Under Water?
Review: While this film didn't really offer us anything new to this genre, it isn't a bad entry. The acting is a bit wooden at times, but the film moves quickly (despite being an hour and 45 minutes in length!) while tackling some serious subject matter. The reason I am adding a review deals with the quality of the DVD. The entire Pro Logic audio track sounds as if the film is under water. I needed to disable Pro Logic and play the film with just my two front speakers. Watch out for this. I do not recommend purchasing this DVD due to the poor sound quality, which doesn't restrict itself to just the movie. The extras on the DVD also suffer from this problem.
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