Great Story, Great Acting, everything else... not so good.

Rating: 3/10 (13 January 2006)

Okay, I'm not going to dispute at all that this movie makes quite a statement. I think that's great, but a movie isn't just the statement it makes. The acting in the film was absolutely fantastic; I can give no criticism there. The story was absolutely compelling. Those things said, there seemed to me to be a HUGE amount of dead space in the movie that could have been completely removed and it would have made absolutely no difference. Scenery shots, etc. I know some people will cry blasphemy at me for making a comparison like this, but I will anyway. If you have ever seen Team America World Police, you likely noticed the large periods of time in the movie where it wasn't funny, and then spikes of pure hilarity. Brokeback is very similar; there is a large amount of boring dead space and then some of the most absolutely fantastic scenes I have seen in a long time. The gripping story and the fantastic acting don't make up for the time I spent dozing off out of boredom, it could have been a lot shorter and, as a result, much better.