Complex love-story

Rating: 6/10 (23 April 2006)

The reviews about this movie convinced me to see it, although I had some resistance that it might be just a gay-cowboy-movie in which I would not be so interested. When the story developed it became clear that this movie could not deliver what I was hoping for. Apart from that, I consider it to be a lot better as "Million Dollar Baby" from Clint Eastwood. Both movies are about USA-sensitive subjects, but Brokeback Mountain is more balanced and has a much deeper developed storyline.
The first half of the movie is a bit disappointing as it does not show anything new and surprising. Half-way the movie the characters became more interesting as the complexity of their situations increased. This complexity is also, for my opinion, the most interesting thing about the movie.
Although there is nothing wrong with this movie in the sense of "Oscar-values", for my opinion it is became a bit over-rated by it.