Live And Let Live.

Rating: Null/10 (15 January 2014)

Bolstered by career-best performance from Matthew McConaughey & another swashbuckling role by the ever adaptable Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club tells the true life story of Ron Woodroof, an electrician & rodeo who, when diagnosed with the HIV virus & predicted to die within a month, starts smuggling unapproved medicine into the country to help other AIDS patients when he finds the drug's effectiveness in improving his symptoms. The film also covers his battle with FDA over the corruption that exists within the organization that was built for the betterment of suffering people.
Smartly directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, well-researched, nicely scripted, steadily edited & covering the country ambiance pretty well, the best part about Dallas Buyers Club is its performances. Matthew McConaughey gives an spectacular but intricately layered performance as the homophobic Ron Woodroof and embodied the right physicality & personality to play the character. Jared Leto is one of those immensely versatile actors whom you can give any role & they'll end up completely getting into the skin of it. And that's what Leto does here while playing an HIV+ transgender woman named Rayon, with whom Ron makes a business deal as she can bring him clients for the medicine, and gives a performance that easily goes down as one of this year's strongest. Jennifer Garner was alright as she didn't have much to do here anyway.
On an overall scale, Dallas Buyers Club is a pretty good, if not great, motion picture that is greatly helped by the performances of McConaughey & Leto to be worth of your time & money. It might be disturbing to watch at times for some viewers but in an emotionally captivating manner, it shows the plight of people who know they'll be dying very soon but are still daring to live by trying whatever means possible. One never really learns the true value of his/her life until it's too late for them to get it back & that's what this film is trying to reflect to some extent while also making a powerful statement about the the injustice & abandonment a person suffering from AIDS still faces around the world. Give it a try.