I was really looking forward to this movie after it was highly recommended on YouTube's Rainbow Mood channel and along with the many rave reviews about it, I was bought into it.
But having watched it, I take my words back. I was utterly disappointed. I can't believe I'd wasted 2 hours on this.
I mean it may not be as epic or moving as Saving Private Ryan or Platoon; which I didn't expect it to be. Nor do I expect it to be as groundbreaking or emotional as Brokeback Mountain. I just don't feel anything for any of the characters. Let alone the gay romance between the two leads. When I watch a gay-themed movie I'd like to have that attachment to the romance stuck in my mind for hours, even days, after watching it. But this one just didn't do it. The acting was wooden and forced. The characters didn't feel "organic" to say the least for me to feel anything for them. The chemistry among the actors are as good as beginners in an acting class.
As for the two lead gay gay characters, maybe I might have overlooked it, but there was no background about them for me to feel anything for them. It's like they were there out of the blue.
To be set during the Vietnam war with a gay romance as its central theme is quite a huge feat in itself. Not to mention, monumentously ambitious. But in the end, it fell flat. I can understand that even with the title card at the end saying that they could be/were such love story during the war, it still doesn't convince me anything genuine about this movie at all.
Imagine the romance between Jack and Rose with Titanic as its backdrop except the Vietnam War with romance between two soldiers. In an alternate universe, given the right script and direction, perhaps it could work. But everything about this one just didn't feel right.
Granted I may not know the intel about the war and I can just take it wholeheartedly and assume that the characters knew what they were talking in terms of the military strategies. Yet even with the cinematography and gunfires and helicopters flying, the setting for Vietnam just felt somewhat too "clean and pristine".
But having watched it, I take my words back. I was utterly disappointed. I can't believe I'd wasted 2 hours on this.
I mean it may not be as epic or moving as Saving Private Ryan or Platoon; which I didn't expect it to be. Nor do I expect it to be as groundbreaking or emotional as Brokeback Mountain. I just don't feel anything for any of the characters. Let alone the gay romance between the two leads. When I watch a gay-themed movie I'd like to have that attachment to the romance stuck in my mind for hours, even days, after watching it. But this one just didn't do it. The acting was wooden and forced. The characters didn't feel "organic" to say the least for me to feel anything for them. The chemistry among the actors are as good as beginners in an acting class.
As for the two lead gay gay characters, maybe I might have overlooked it, but there was no background about them for me to feel anything for them. It's like they were there out of the blue.
To be set during the Vietnam war with a gay romance as its central theme is quite a huge feat in itself. Not to mention, monumentously ambitious. But in the end, it fell flat. I can understand that even with the title card at the end saying that they could be/were such love story during the war, it still doesn't convince me anything genuine about this movie at all.
Imagine the romance between Jack and Rose with Titanic as its backdrop except the Vietnam War with romance between two soldiers. In an alternate universe, given the right script and direction, perhaps it could work. But everything about this one just didn't feel right.
Granted I may not know the intel about the war and I can just take it wholeheartedly and assume that the characters knew what they were talking in terms of the military strategies. Yet even with the cinematography and gunfires and helicopters flying, the setting for Vietnam just felt somewhat too "clean and pristine".