Not so good!

Rating: 2/10 (19 October 2014)

I disliked this film quite strongly. Matthew McConaughey was great, but I found the movie's self-congratulatory righteousness to be a little retch-inducing. I know it's a true story but it's like straight guilt on celluloid, gay history for straight people. Jared Leto's Rayon is quite offensive, completely OTT, and the Mammy character of our time. He's given so little development that there is no emotional impact from his death. He and his plight exist only to drive the development of McConaughey's character, and his death is designed to spur him on. It's a little sickening, especially how this terrible period of history for gay people has been turned into a faux-soulful story of redemption for a straight man. As we've never seen something like this before, and it's very cynically aimed at Oscar voters.