Bea Swanson
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Fleur
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
fuzzyblueslurpee
After reading several comments about how this movie was finally the gay thriller we have been waiting for, I decided to give this film a try. There are several problems I have with this movie but I will only focus on a few to save time.First off, the acting wasn't the worst i've seen but it was still pretty bad. But I wasn't expecting much from a gay thriller based on the past "gay thrillers" i've seen. The scenes with sex and nudity were terribly contrived and out of place. If the filmmakers were trying to pass this off as a movie that just happened to have sex in it, they failed. In fact, so much of the plot was focused on the main characters sex life that at times I forgot there was a killer at all.There were also a few scenes which I assume were meant to break stereotypes by illustrating how "Manny" was not only good looking, but was also intelligent and vulnerable, but they all came off as plain obnoxious. Besides, what kind of decent gay man would watch some scummy cop treat his friends like crap and then have sex with him? If there is a person or persons in your social circle who would do something like that, I suggest finding new friends. Gay men can be really superficial but a lot of us do have some ethics.All in all, my advice is to skip this movie.
Franco-LA
Low budget gay films often have certain weeks -- usually plot and acting -- which this film certainly suffers from. The problem is that its reach far, far exceeds its grasp. It makes the nice effort at being a serial killer/thriller but this is essentially simply window dressing to disguise a very soft-core pornish excuse for nudity, which is surprising in this day of so much free naked male imagery and the ease at obtain steamed video hard and soft core male on male visuals on the web that any one would bankroll something like this. The serial killer plot is poorly thought out and filled of some blatant and gaping plot holes, as some other reviewers commented. There are enough crime procedurals on TV to know, for example, that it would never be that easy or quick to get a search warrant, that you would interview the obvious possible witnesses (neighbors, etc.) and that there is no way a body could simply sit in a man's apartment for a month -- this guy has no job and no one else in the building has a sense of smell? Can you just picture the cops from Law & Order moving into someone's apartment -- or that the person being "protected" would just be OK with it? Also, how does the killer get into all these apartments, particularly the john who paid $700. And how many hustlers in DC make $500, much less $700 for what appeared to be an hour long out-call that wasn't even originally going to include anal sex? Technically, the movie also suffered in a poor sound mix, some occasionally bad lighting, and the unevenness of the performances. While some were adequate to decent/good, others were just plain bad, although that may have been just as much of a reflection of the lack of character development and the poor script. Finally, in addition to the lack of reality that a detective would simply force his way into the home of a man who would assuredly be considered a key suspect by even Springfiled Police Chief Ralph Wiggum, the relationship between him and the male lead just wasn't plausible in any way, they lacked chemistry, and the sex scene between, in addition to being purely gratuitous (like so much of the other nudity and sexuality in the film), was also poorly reasoned in having the Andreas Thomas character (Manny) all of a sudden want the detective to top him. This was also made even more nonsensical by the ending, having the Manny character end up with his best friend, which is not supported by anything else that has taken place in the film earlier.I have nothing against sex and nudity in films, however in this movie it just so clearly exists to try to create a soft core porn movie and makes little sense to the story, except that it takes places in a web cam chat room environment. A better plot, such as perhaps a serial killer in a gay gym, would have accomplished this in a more logical manner.
quexl
I rushed to the cinema yesterday to make this movie (which was shown as part of the "Verzaubert" Gay Film Festival that takes place each year in the major German cities and which normally shows really good stuff. Anyway, I was looking forward to it (though I am female and straight, I find a lot of gay movies well made and interesting; something else from the usual Hollywood crap!!). However, even though I am definitely not an expert on acting, it was quite blatant even to me that this was extremely poor acting, by almost every character involved!! The lines sounded so studied, there was nothing spontaneous or witty about them. I did find the plot somewhat interesting, but it could have been made into a much better movie, in my opinion. I also did not find the actors particularly dishy, which surprised me as they normally have quite the lookers in gay movies !! I also did not see the necessity for the drawn-out and lengthy sex scenes -- what purpose did they serve?? I mean, this was not meant to be a porn movie, as far as I understood.... Anyway, I considered it a waste of time and money!!
dan prodonick
I just saw this movie at the Toronto gay film festival, and let me tell you, if you can't appreciate this satisfying, sexy thriller, you must be secretly straight. That's because this movie has loads of male nudity with the camera lovingly lingering on the beautiful bubble-butts (instead of the quick little cuts we usually get in movies or on TV), shots of guys masturbating, and the oh-so-rare joy of seeing erect penises on the big screen. We even get to see the erection of the hunky hero, an actor named Andreau Thomas, who I consider to be one of the hottest guys on the planet.All that, plus great characters, writing, directing, acting, and music. This is the type of sexy movie I would make if I was a filmmaker, but I don't know if I would be as skilled in pulling off the amazingly suspenseful climax.Thankfully, director Robert Gaston is very talented in this regard, and he's given us a movie that successfully puts the c@#k into Hitchcock.
