A Failed Attempt To Be............Different

Rating: 4/10 (30 August 2012)

Any movie that breaks new ground, is normally mis-judged. This is mis-judged. The acting between the two lovers is not convincing...(the acting across the board is sub-standard.) This is a long saga about two men who fall in love. It becomes tedious and boring after an hour. I never gave the story much credibility...these guys got away with murder at a time when that was not possible. Juggling marriages with "love" for another man, is quite a trick. The direction is sluggish and self indulgent. Many "experts" thought this should have won an Academy Award for best picture. Crash won it (rightly so) and it would have been for all the wrong reasons...if Brokeback Mountain had won. The decision to have Heath Ledger mumble all his lines was wrong. The audience need to here what is actually being said.....Also sentimentality is eventually brushed on thickly.....much thicker than needed. An average movie.