I was absolutely positive that I would LOVE this movie!

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2012)

I desperately wanted to adore this film and defend it against the haters. A huge fan of both leading actors and an LGBT advocate, I thought that absolutely nothing could stop this from becoming my all time favorite film. I'm in awe by how wrong I was.
I really don't see the appeal, as much as it pains me to say it. The cinematography is stunning, but that's about as far as it goes. The plot was surprisingly thin and I didn't see anything remarkable in any of the performances. Not that they were bad necessarily (except Ledger's. I adore him, but he was just awful this time, I had to turn on the captions to understand what he was saying), but everything was underwhelming and the majority of the characters were hard to tolerate at all, like nails on a chalk board, to speak nothing of trying to actually care about them.
I do understand this movie's social relevance of course, but as unpopular as this is to say, it's just not really that great of a movie. I think they had a great thing going, but somewhere between the concept and the premier, it all collapsed and left something actually sadly forgettable in its wake.
But such is merely my own personal opinion. And although I do have strange taste, I really feel like this is a fair summary of a (sorry) pretty dull movie.