Burnt Money
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Movie Reviews of Burnt Money
Movie Review: Burnt Money
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been a fan of Eduardo Noriega and Leonardo Sbaraglia since I saw Burnt Money in April 2003. I'd never paid much attention to movies in Spanish before except for those that earned Oscars as best foreign movies. Burnt Money changed my perception about Hispanic movies. Leonardo Sbaraglia (Nene) was wonderfully successful in coveying his loving feelings toward Eduardo Noriega (Angel) in the movie. His performance was so unique and so intense compared to those of other actors who had ever played gay characters in Hollywood. This is a wonderfully new experience for me.Movie Review: Half-Gay SouthAmerican Scarface
Summary: 3 Stars
Hot actors and visually stunning biggish buget Argentinian true crime gay noir thriller, this could have been soooo good, alas the gays are religiously impotent through 95% of the movie (brought early on by mental breakdown) so all the gay potental action goes out the window and we are left watching frustration with frustration. Not so good. However... last 20 minutes of this movie you should be floored by the plottwist and action plus last minute gay snog saves the day. The movie-loving but eternally starved gay audience might enjoy it better if they don't expect the misleading DVD cover to deliver (that torso scene is 5 seconds at the beginning and this kind of sensual nudity is not repeated though there is some nudity au natural).
Story goes like this; its the 1965 in Bueons Aires and big bank money shipment robbery is planned by various crimebosses who hire 3 hitmen to execute it, 2 of which are gay and lovers. The job is a fiasco with cops being killed but they at least get awy with the money and eventually flee Argentina to Uruguy but knowing more or less the whole time they will be cought spending most of their hide-out time bored out of their sculls and drugged out of their minds. The gay couple seems to break up and one of them seeks comfort tricking at night and forms eventually some sort of a relationship with a local moll. Eventually they are sold out by the people who hired them and cops and army attack but their reaction is no surrender and a mini war breaks out as the 3 of them Alamo style hold the fort to the last drop of sweaty blood. Oh and the homos re-unite just in time to be shot.
The main trouble with this film is the overlong middlepart with the one half of the gay couple cheating on his lover with a woman (loads of graphic straight sex) this dragged on for way way to long and might as well have ben cut out altogether as it made no difference to the plot. Ok I still liked this movie enough to give it 3 stars and I'm happy to have bought it as I think I will want to watch the best parts annually (but skipping over about 40% of the middle). Grimms.
Movie Review: thought this movie would never end
Summary: 1 Stars
At the risk of oversimplifying, this was kinda like a gay version of Bonnie and Clyde. *Burnt Money* is about a gay couple involved in a botched bank robbery in Argentina in 1965. They escaped to Uruguay where their relationship unraveled and where the police caught up with them.
One main problem about this movie was that it dragged on endlessly. One has some kind of mental issue going on. The other is somewhat of a sex addict or rather he seeks thrills, despite the fact he's supposed to be in hiding. And with the traditional machismo thing going on among Latino men, these two men just cannot be comfortable with each other.
When things come to an end, that is, when the police trapped them, they reconnect and renew their love for each other.
Overall, a disappointing film!
Movie Review: over-rated as a sensual gay movie
Summary: 1 Stars
Based on the reviews, I thought this foreign, Spanish-speakingmovie was going to have more realistic, sexually-explicit
gay scenes among the attractive main male characters. Instead
you will find that all the hot sex was between the supporting
actor and actress in this movie. In such movies where the actors
are supposed to be gay and involved in a steamy, amorous
relationship yet fail to show any evidence of one existing (while the straight couples are going at it like rabbits) makes
you wonder if the actors or director is a bit homophobic or afraid of what gay sexually-explicit scenes could do to the
movie's ratings and/or actors' careers. Needless to say, I felt
a bit disheartened and misled. Hats off to Y Tu Mama Tambien for
being [braver]!!
Movie Review: Anything But Romantic!
Summary: 1 Stars
Sorry I can't share the sentiments of the other reviewers. Actually I bought this movie based on all the wonderful reviews and could not sit through the film! The most reviting part of this movie is the beautiful lead actor playing Angel. The story was very dull and slow moving. There is nothing erotic about the movie, however that was not the reason for me buying the film. I thought it was a gay romance against the backdrop of a heist which the movie does not deliver. The two actors are absolutely straight and are not at all convincing as gay lovers. I fell asleep twice trying to sit through it and fast forwarded to the end which is where (I suppose) the action to this melodrama lies and ended up sucking my teeth and turning off the DVD.