All the hype is virtually ridiculous

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2011)

Before I started to write my own review, I took one good look at the reviews around here. I didn't pay much attention to the positives because my priority were the negatives. And I agree with a lot of things said by the people who wrote negatives.
There is frankly nothing memorable in this film. Its one saving grace is some of the beautiful scenario of Brokeback Mountain but there is so little of it. I mean, so little of the best of the scenario.
It's a painfully slow and long (2+ hours) movie, as much as it is forgettable and boring to death, so boring that I could yawn like a lion. It isn't even the slightest bit entertaining. The acting of Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal and all other actors is clearly overrated. To be frank, both Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall act quite badly, but Jake acts particularly badly. Heath could act a little better but still he wasn't a great actor. He had a typically cowboy voice but that wasn't enough.
Also, there isn't any real feelings, emotion, sympathy and chemistry between the lead actors. They simply weren't believable together. All they did was this: one moment they were kissing and making love and suddenly they were brutish to each other and constantly yelling. Their story was so forced and phony, just like the rest of the movie.
Other negative aspects were the lack of character development, the weak plot, the bad direction and finally the thing that bothers me most: the implied animal cruelty. Some animals here are shown in highly questionable condition. As an animal lover, that disturbs me and horrifies me.
I'm glad that at least I didn't waste any money to watch this deplorable thing, although I still had one small price to pay: the energy wasted in watching it.