Not convinced

Rating: 7/10 (21 January 2006)

I was slightly disappointed by this film...I had heard the rave reviews and heard of friends leaving cinemas in tears or being unable to take their mind off the film days later...
Well I got no such reaction. Yes it is beautifully shot and their are some tightly acted scenes but I was not completely convinced. The early part of the film to me has some noticeable problems to me....When u first see both actors they look like models waiting for a casting....honestly are we to believe that these trim absurdly good looking guys with perfect skin are actually slightly rough neck cowboys...dressed in extremely clean new looking clothes that fitted perfectly....just did not seem convincing...
Also I think the initial flowering of their attachment up on the mountain did not convince me either...Frankly I don't know other gay men who have made out as if they are trying to fight to the death...frankly in the privacy of the mountain one assumes they would have been more human and tender once they realised the feeling was mutual....also the sex scene to me is practically an impossibility and unrealistic as a first gay encounter...IE to go from kissing to successful penetrative sex where they already take assumed roles in about 10 seconds. Ask any gay friend and they will say their first time was nothing like that and never so quick.
So good but not that good.