Definitely Skim Milk

Rating: 4/10 (16 March 2009)

Despite being gay and having most of my friends praise "Milk" I must disagree. While Sean Penn's performance was Oscar-worthy and there was much to like, overall it was another Gus Van Sant bore. First of all it was much too dark. I doubt these vibrant people had so many meetings by low lamplight. Much of the conversation was muddled. The story thread was confusing. And there was no character development. Who was Milk? Why did he tolerate his last lover's looniness. Plus all the characters were your basic cliché queens. Surely there must have been one manly gay hanging around, after all bars everywhere are full of them. The Dan White role, while well-played, was totally undeveloped. Who was he? What did he really want? What was his family life like? This is a highly overrated movie that has been so overpraised that most people are probably afraid to venture any criticism.