The 10 Year Plan

Ok, I'll start out by saying that no, this movie is not genius and it's not great. Movies like this aren't exactly meant to be genius though, I knew what I was getting myself into with this one. To me, this was simply a cute, fun feel good movie. I was alone and on Netflix one night, and thought it would be light and fluffy, and it was. I say all that because you have to know what you're in for. If you pick this movie apart and scrutinize it, you'll probably have a bad time. It's predictable and it is very cheesy. The reason I enjoyed it so much, is because I liked the actors and their characters. I thought they were likable and I liked seeing them together. I also liked the supporting members of the cast and the character they played. The writing is far from brilliant, but like I said, it's all fluff and idealistic. Can't say if others will like it as much as I did, but I really had fun with it.

Bad acting, cheesy clichés, stilted dialogue, beautiful male eye candy. It's a pretty mediocre film, but I watched it to the end because it was nice just watching hot guys mooning over each other. Of course, they had the chemistry of, well, two C-grade actors that had just met, but whatchya gonna do?

Our two main protagonists have great chemistry - believable unlike many of the character choices and plot developments. A fun and romantic movie, even if complete fiction.

The 10 year plan is full of clichés both of the gay world and of Hollywood romantic comedies. Is absolutely predictable and shows nothing new. But it's nicely shot and gives a some good laughs. I had a nice time watching it.

So two best friends scribble down a contract on a napkin that states that should they both be single in ten years, they are to marry each other. One of the pair, "Myles" (Jack Turner) is a successful lawyer, but also more of a loving and romantic sort of lad who always ends up getting dumped. When that happens, he habitually meets up with his pal "Brady" (Michael Adam Hamilton). He is a much more confident guy, a cop, who picks up men effortlessly but who isn't remotely into anything longer-term than fifteen minutes. Both are out, proud and accepted by their friends and at work where just about everyone else thinks that they are really made for each other, but can't see the wood for the trees. Then "Myles" meets "Hunter" (Adam Bucci) with whom he feels a connection, only for his pal to meet him too, and... This whole film is cheesy and predictable but the two lead efforts are quite engaging and it's the sheer (albeit optimistic) normalcy of the film that makes it a bit different. Nobody cares that they are gay, indeed the dynamic between "Brady" and his partner "Richard" (Moronai Kanekoa) delivers some quite pithy patrol-car banter as the former's sexual successes are frequently the topic of conversation whilst his pal fares less well with the ladies. It's quite a fun look at the shallowness of gay lifestyles, and in that it can be a little lazily stereotypical, but it's still quite watchable as the conclusion looms ever larger without the merest hint of doubt!