Good but not great tragic love story

Rating: 6/10 (5 February 2006)

This the story of two men who fall in love and can't come to terms with the relationship.
I'm probably going to be in the minority, but I find this movie to be very over rated. Its not bad, but over produced and so incredibly pretty that this film struck me as being more of a lets pretend than a real life story. Its very artificial in way that makes me think that perhaps the producers and the director didn't truly trust the material to draw people in, so spiced it up. If you tell a story correctly the film will cross boundaries and move people regardless of the subject matter or sexual orientation. This movie never moved me. As I sat there and watched the film I kept wondering what this would have looked like had some one like John Huston or Sam Peckinpah would have done it as a small gritty western ala The Misfits. (Then again nobody would have probably noticed it) Sure to win a good number of Oscars this is not a bad movie, just a very over rated one.