Open Cam

I recently saw this film (which I thought ROCKED!!!) and found myself wondering why is it only relegated to film festivals? It would surely do well at a run in your local indie film house. I enjoyed everything about it...it was smart, fast, challenging, well paced and sexy. I thought all of the actors did amazing, especially given for most of them (if not all of them) it was their first film. An amazing feat. I would have liked to see the character's friends more as they added an interesting dynamic to the story line. They each had an interesting personality that could have been more evolved. If we had seen more of them it would have given more of a "Sex and the City" feel to it, which we gays love but don't see enough of in films about OUR lives. The soundtrack was amazing and I really do think you need to give it residency at theaters in select cities. I want my friends to see it, but they are definitely not going across the country to see it at it's next showing. Good job cast!

I rushed to the cinema yesterday to make this movie (which was shown as part of the "Verzaubert" Gay Film Festival that takes place each year in the major German cities and which normally shows really good stuff. Anyway, I was looking forward to it (though I am female and straight, I find a lot of gay movies well made and interesting; something else from the usual Hollywood crap!!). However, even though I am definitely not an expert on acting, it was quite blatant even to me that this was extremely poor acting, by almost every character involved!! The lines sounded so studied, there was nothing spontaneous or witty about them. I did find the plot somewhat interesting, but it could have been made into a much better movie, in my opinion. I also did not find the actors particularly dishy, which surprised me as they normally have quite the lookers in gay movies !! I also did not see the necessity for the drawn-out and lengthy sex scenes -- what purpose did they serve?? I mean, this was not meant to be a porn movie, as far as I understood.... Anyway, I considered it a waste of time and money!!

Now we know that being a murder suspect can be yet another opportunity to land a piece of ass. If only "Skinemax" could offer us gay boys something like this.

The difference between Open Cam and a porno is that pornos usually have less blood, better acting, and a few more sex scenes. It offers moments of unintentional-but- hysterical camp, and Amir Darvish was often impressive as Detective Hamilton. But the rest of the cast, including it's lead character, Andreau Thomas, come across as community-theatre-amateurs. In the case of Thomas, a community-theatre-amateur who is oh-so-eager to bare his sculpted, sexy bubble-butt for half of the time he's on the screen. silly, stupid, smut.

This is the worst gay film I have ever seen. And, as a member of the Stonewall generation, babes, I've seen 'em all. The most disturbing thing about this movie is its soft-core eye candy. The experience of watching this film mimicked one of those horrid chat room conversations with a hottie who turns out to be a vacant narcissist in an Adonis suit. If the acting hadn't been so abominable, this parallel universe to the real gay universe on line might have been amusing. If it had been a farce, it might have been amusing. If it had been populated with bad drag queens, it might have been amusing. It was none of these things. It was just a bad movie, badly written, badly acted, and badly designed. Amir Darvish was the only minor exception to the general lack of redeeming features of this opus. What a waste of pixels.

For me this film has three parts. The first half and the end, which make no sense at all. And the second half minus the end which is pretty decent.

The first half and the end are the definition of a bad B movie. Bad acting, a script unconnected and with no heart, a plot that jumps everywhere and a feel low budget in the film. Apart from that we get the stereotype of gay men being addicted to sex, all spiced up with lots of skin, some of it quite good looking.

The second half of the film minus the end though seems to fit together much better. Suddenly the main character seems more human and overall we can relate a little bit to what's going on and feel for him and the cop who is trying to help him. In this part the script and the plot seem much smoother at telling a story though we still get the occasional character that suddenly shows up for a scene and is treated as an important piece of the plot, only to see him disappear again. But the plot between the two main character does hold your attention during this part.

It's very refreshing to see a film with the main characters being gay which is not about coming out, much more so when it's a thriller, one of my favorite genres. For that attempt I give this film an extra star. Unfortunately I found that this film was lacking of the glue that makes a scenes merge into a movie. Anyways if you're just looking to chill out for a while you can watch the movie and still enjoy it. I kind of like B movies.