Redwarmin
This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Unlimitedia
Sick Product of a Sick System
RipDelight
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Zlatica
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
FilmCriticLalitRao
Australian film "Walking on Water" is one of the most original films about homosexual characters.The best thing about it is that unlike other gay films it does not glorify homosexuality and gay people.It shows gay people as perfectly normal ordinary mortals whose joys and sorrows are same as that of straight people.This film's director Tony Aires started his career in 1999 with a documentary called "Sadness". His feature film debut "Walking on Water" is about tough choices one has to make in life.It is said that life assumes a different meaning altogether when people are confronted with death.This is something which happens in this film as a gay character dies after waging a valiant war against his illness.This film revolves around a group of friends who cope with an inevitable grief arising out of their friend's death.Their presence highlights the fact that a slow death is more brutal than Euthanasia.As a tale of human emotions and their implications on ordinary people,Walking on Water shows that friends are always around when one is abandoned by family.This is one of the best rewarding reasons for watching this film.
bonna fide
This film is OK. It positions itself safely in the territory of Lantanaland...earnest, frank, emotionally charged and sometimes tawdry. The shots are uninspired as are the ideas the story is dealing with. Grief is sad....but can we go deeper? Can we dig a bit more and discover something truly perverse or honest about ourselves. Maybe his friends don't really care all that much. Maybe his mother is just a tad less likable. I am not sure. In the end...it all seemed a bit cinematic ally safe. Everything made too much sense. Everything had been worked over far too much. LIFE is a great film about AIDS. SAFE and POISON are great films too. This is good but feels a bit like movie of the week.
callapm66
Tony Ayers shows great promise as a director and I will be keen to see what he does next but this film was riddled with cliches. It was a film where I think the characters needed to be developed more fully at a script stage. It was an attempt to show a gay relationship in a different way but really it fails satisfy.
Tony
Can you think of any movie whose main characters are homosexual which isn't all about homosexuality? I can't, but this is one, and it was such a delight to witness. Fantastic acting, very realistic slice of life, but not much of a storyline. I was disappointed to see that of the two big sex scenes in the movie, the homo one was over in a flash, and the het bonkathon, as usual, seemed to go on forever. Ah well, you can't have everything in a movie, I suppose.