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Movie Reviews of Back Soon
Movie Review: Great story line
Summary: 5 Stars
Great story line. Acting is a little rough but the whole story is great. Worth a watch.Movie Review: Touching movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this movie to be a sweet and touching movie.
I recommend it.
Movie Review: Good, but a couple of wrong turns
Summary: 4 Stars
I hesitated over seeing this film, even though I loved LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP, by the same filmmaker and leads. The cover art is unattractive and the plot seemed without nuance, as you know already what's going on without having seen the film. In fact, the first scene of the movie gives it away.
Now, having seen the film and liked it enough to want it in my collection, I can say the cover art is still bad. And I would suggest the third lead, the female actor, should be the figure looming over the two lead males.
I like the leads, both good actors, and I'm sure their contrasting physical appeal will have the audience member favoring one or the other - Montgomery is very angular, sharp-featured, while Beacham is lush, and has a more timeless appeal. There are a few kisses, but nothing more overt in any male-to-male physical interaction on-screen.
The plot has to do with how two straight guys find themselves in love with each other, and how they deal with that. The conclusion to the film will be a surprise.
There are a couple of bad missteps from the filmmaker: for one, there was no mystery, hence no surprise, as to the motifications behind the brother-in-law's behavior, and it seemed the performance by the actor should have been reined in, as well. Some of the smaller roles are well-filled, but there are bad dialogue scenes. Overall, the screenplay needed some finetuning, mainly to eliminate so much of the stereotyping of both male and female. The screenplay, at times, is unintentionally laughable, and not in a good way, more in a "this is camp" way. When there is too much of that, fortunately the performances of the two leads - both separately and together - saves the day.
The worst bit, merely because it's so inappropriate, is when one character ends up brandishing a gun. I won't go into details, but for some reason the actor points the weapon like the short-lived Hollywood fantasy of gun-slinging that involved shooting sideways. It was short-lived, because it was laughed at by virtually anyone who's ever handled a gun. If you hold a gun the way the character did in this film, basically you could be three steps from a barn and still miss it. So that was a big unintentional eye-popping laughfest during an otherwise tense scene, so the diector blew the big one, so to speak.
The director has interesting ideas - his LTR was great in exploring an aspect of being in love I can't recall another filmmaker delving into - but doesn't do some of the basic practical work behind the scenes to ensure a great product before he starts pointing his camera and saying "Action." Hopefully he will have evolved by the time his third offering is set in motion.
Movie Review: Not just another gay love story....
Summary: 4 Stars
Does love end with death?
When we first meet Logan Foster, he is in a hospital anxiously waiting for a doctor to come out and tell him how his life is about to change. The next time we see him he is in his living room packing away all the things that made the house a home. He's selling it, he can no longer live in the house without his beloved wife "too many ghosts" as he explains.
It's been a year since his wife died; everyone is telling him it's time to move on, to get past it. But how do you get past losing the only person you have ever loved, or will ever love? How do you just one day say goodbye and let that be the end. On the first day of the open house Logan is mistaken for the real-estate agent by a potential buyer Guillermo "everybody just calls me Gill" Ramirez. Logan gives him a tour of the house and is compelled to sell him the house. Not because of anything other than a gut feeling he's following. He heart has over ruled his head.
That should be the end of it but something strange happens. Logan and Gill strike up an unlikely friendship. Even though these are two men from vastly different backgrounds; Logan is a struggling actor with a few bad indie movie credits and Gill as we come to find out is an ex-drug dealer. One night they become closer than they ever dared imagine possible. Especially since both men are straight.
No this isn't a film about repressed men figuring out who they really are and finding away to live with it and setting themselves and each other free. We've all seen that story before. As Gill tells his friend Jamie after first sleeping with Logan "this is something new." These are two straight men, who fall deeply in love with one another but who are not attracted to other men only each other.
As the film develops we find out how it can be that these two men can be in love with each other. We find out that love has no limits, not even death. And we find out the nature of loss, and what unconditional love can be.
Movie Review: Interesting film
Summary: 4 Stars
Since I liked "Long-term Relationship" so much, I bought "Back Soon" because I knew it has the same cast and director. I am very glad I did.
This movie has some compelling acting performances and some very original and interesting plot lines. Matthew Montgomery and Windham Beacham once again sizzle together on screen and Maggie Eilertson as Beacham's dead wife does a marvelous job in her role. As independent films go, this one is excellent, add in the gay romance and this one enters my top twenty favorite indie films of all times.
(I don't want to give away the plot, but think "Ghost" meets "Return to Me" and somwhere in-between you get "Back Soon.")