Testosterone
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Movie Reviews of Testosterone
Movie Review: A Mess - Sexy - But a Mess
Summary: 2 Stars
The pluses: David Sutcliffe, a fine actor and good to look at, an intriguing premise, and several well done scenes at the beginning of the film. The minuses: pretty much everything else. After a promising start, the story, such as it is, devolves quickly into pointless, pseudo-arty confusion. When the "hero" (Sutcliffe) goes to Buenos Ares to track down his lost love Pablo, all his opponent (Pablo's dragon-lady mother) would have to do is have him arrested and deported (since the family is said to have political power). Instead, a family friend is set up to alternately seduce and, apparently, murder him. This is the cute but vapid Marcos, another of the disappeared Pablo's former lovers, who appears to commit suicide, but then... And it's supposed to be the height of camp humor that an apparently sympathetic, if obssessed, gay man, would chop of his former lover's head and send it home in a cooler. Cheese, but well acted, sexy at points, and for the most part attractively shot. Worth watching? Probably not, and certainly not for the much-touted, and so brief you'd miss it if you blink, full frontal shot of a famous underwear model.Movie Review: Don't ! Just Rent it.
Summary: 2 Stars
Very disappointing. If one's expecting a hot scene, you won't get it, not even a warm scene. Weak plot. The guy travels from the USA to Argentina after his lover, but he doesn't convince me. He doesn't seem to be neither in love nor suffering. He's always smirking. If one's after Sabato's toy, the scene is flash, forget it. It seems to me that, apart from very few movies, most of them suffers from a weakness in their plots, their direction, their acting. And they lack real love feeling, such as in "Just a question of love" (Fr), "Later Days" (although the main actor's acting is weak (the religious guy) ).Movie Review: Interesting Premise Lost to Bad Execution
Summary: 2 Stars
The only good thing about this film is the acting. Period. The plot spins out of control 15 minutes into the film. The script is poorly written and the emotional attachment to the characters is non-existant. I honestly do not recommend this film.Movie Review: truly awful and appalling . . stay away if you read the book
Summary: 1 Stars
I was excited when I discovered that Testosterone, James Robert Baker's gritty and disturbing novel of a man's downward spiral into obsession, revenge and black magic, was being turned into a movie. However, I wasn't expecting this mess of a film. If Baker, who had a huge aversion to Hollywood celebrity culture, were alive today I think he would burn every exsisting copy of this film and sue for damages.
If you're familiar with the novel, you will soon discover that the movie version of Testosterone bears no resemblance at all to the novel. The only exceptions being the title, Dean and Pablo-the main character's names and the fact that Dean is searching for Pablo after their break-up.
The novel takes place in a 24 hour period through L.A.'s seedy underworld of sex and drugs. Told through a series of audiotapes Dean has recorded and left behind for a friend, we experience Dean's rapid descent into madness as he frantically searches the city for Pablo. Dean is angry not only because Pablo unceremoniously dumped him but also because he's convinced Pablo, who practices a form of black magic, has placed a curse on him and the only way Dean can remove the curse is by cutting Pablo's head off.
The movie loosely adapts the bare skeleton of plot from the novel, moves the action to Argentina, gives Pablo's mother a huge part of the plot(she appears for a split second in the novel) introduces a brother and sister who are both vying for Pablo (characters who do not appear in the novel) and takes a comic slant on everything.
This is a lousy film that shouldn't even be associated with James Robert Baker or his brilliant work. Read his novel Testosterone to see what this movie really should be but steer clear from this (although Antonio Sabato and David Sutcliffe are definitely yummy eye candy)!
Movie Review: Caffine inplace of Testosterone
Summary: 1 Stars
David Moreton directs Testosterone, a rambling movie that is trying to come across as a 'black comedy' but loses its focus and ends up becoming a heaping mess. Initally, the movie had potential, Dean (David Sutcliffe) writes/illustrates graphic novels and his long term boyfriend Pablo (Antonio Sabato, Jr.) goes out for one night and never returns. This sets Dean on a quest to Argentina to find Pablo and what happened to him. At this point, the movie disintegrates with actors running around in circles like chickens without heads. The director gives no steering in this film (and it shows) and the actors just scurry about from one place to another but never really accomplishing much of anything. The script tries to throw in twist and turns but they are just absurb, in fact so many things in this movie is absurb you fight the urge to fast forward through most of it. For example, Dean leaves to Argentina without any hotel reservations, maps, guide book or even booking a translator (he doesn't speak Spanish). He runs up to Pablo's mothers house and wrestles a gun from a police man (yeah right) and then the whole murdering scemes (the hit on Dean, the fake suicide and the machete...laughable). The real sad part was that Dean's character for being gay had more sexual chemistry with Sophia then with Pablo. The actors really lend very little to help the movie with the exception of Sonia Braga, who is as devilish as ever, and the woman that played Sophia is pretty and remained true to character. Turst me on this movie you'll want to skip the testosterone and settle for some caffine because your going to need it for this bore and snore.