Great movie!

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 2005)

Well, I won't go into extreme detail, as so many other posts have covered so much. I really enjoyed it - it flew by - almost too fast. It could have been three hours and you would not have known it.
Heath really is outstanding, and Jake very good throughout. What I loved was that by the end you really did not think about this being a movie with gay sex (not that I would have minded but I am thinking about American views at large) and instead it was just a great (sad) story.
I read some criticism about the fact that you were not sure just why Ennis decided to start having sex and then this relationship with Jack. However, it actually came across as much more natural and believable simply because they did not try to talk it to death or explain it away. The viewer just grows to accept it.
I definitely want to see it again - there is so much going on that one needs to focus on it all more closely.
Oh - and by the way - blink and the sex scenes are over. They are quite believable, quite hot, but they are fast! My only quibble with the film was the makeup used to age Jack and Ennis. At times it looked a little fakey and so I had to tell myself to ignore it.
Great movie! Thanks to Ang, Heath, Jake, Annie, Diana, Larry and so many others!!