You'll be bored to tears.

Rating: 3/10 (23 August 2006)

I think the main problem with this film is that it relies too heavily on the sensitivity of the audience. If you aren't of a sympathetic or overly emotional disposition, then this film simply isn't for you. It just isn't engaging enough. For the most part the two main characters are bland, generally unlikeable and certainly not empathetic. Their relationship seems to be based around sex (though it's sometimes the only clue they're even together, given how little either character emotes), and in carrying on with their relationship cheat on their wives, skip out on their children and generally show complete disregard for everyone else's feelings. Even this isn't climatic, or eventful. It just happens, matter of factly, throughout the tediously long 19 year storyline. Perhaps the lack of eventfulness is supposed to be subtle and poignant, but it just comes across as tiresome and incomplete. In the end, a film is a narrative device, and Brokeback Mountain just doesn't utilise it as it could have done.