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Overrated and overhyped

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Consistently referred to as the "gay cowboy" film, a description that acts as a disservice to what is a much more emotionally involving drama. Two young men are recruited to wrangle sheep in Brokeback Mountain over the winter season, where their friendship rapidly escalates to a forbidden platonic relationship. Acknowledging the tricky situation, they both decide to resist their hearts and lead normal lives where they start families. Controversially, this is renowned for losing the Best Picture award to 'Crash' and I can now understand the outcry. This is an intricate romance that feels both selfish and sorrowful. Two individuals that inflict damage upon the ones that love them and themselves. Falsifying love in an attempt to live as happy families ironically cause them self-destruction, but the screenplay gently explores the reasoning behind this. You gain an understanding as to why they made these choices, even though they are both hurting themselves, which consequently allows emotional attachment to the story and characters. Following typical western genre traits, the pacing is perhaps excessively leaning towards the slow side (especially the first thirty minutes), however it allows the characterisation to seep through the dialogue and compliment the natural beauty of Wyoming's mountainous landscape. Lee's direction is purely focused on the actors, ensuring that their talent is at the forefront. Both Gyllenhaal and Ledger were absolutely outstanding as Jack and Ennis, their chemistry was beautifully enigmatic. The internal torment and sorrowful friendship that blossoms is often spiky as it is loving, yet at no point is it conveyed falsely. The highlights and low points were progressed with natural humanity. Williams and Hathaway in supporting roles also enhanced the ferocious onscreen talent as two wives that inevitably feel betrayed. I did find the scene where Gyllenhaal violently drags a sheep by its back legs as distasteful. However, this is a majestic romantic drama that is as feral as the rodeos it portrays.

Film Review: "Brokeback Mountain" (2005)Based on a short story by Annie Proulx published in The New Yorker in 1997, Director Ang Lee plays out his strongest suit with casting match-making actors Jake Gyllenhaal and all-too-soon deceased Heath Ledger (1979-2008), who carries the picture all along toward trailer homes as the character of Ennis Del Mar, to transform into two cowboys living in the U.S. mid-west of the 1960s.The film covers a time period from approximately 17 years of two man's lives from 1963 to 1980, stretching countryside from Wyoming to Texas as well as the U.S. American Culture of the lonesome struggling drifter, who eventually encounter his personal haven with marrying a woman of care, after the damage had already been done in an incident scene of homosexual intercourse in a tent of the title-given remote area, where beats of violence between two men transforms into anal relaxation, breaking finally with the western mythology between fist-fighting, pub-brawling and occasional pistol duels encountering cowboys.Director Ang Lee, spoiled and partially disappointed on the misinterpreted high-end comic book adaptation of "Hulk" (2003), turns to his independent roots with "Brokeback Mountain" shaking up a dusty story structures of a contemporary melodrama, using the forfeited love story between two men as an universal speaking approach on human isolation within natural needs in an accelerating society.The picture may not strike an initial nerve again as it did on release in December 2005. Yet it had been executed well enough due to breath-taking cinematographic on-location backdrops captured by Rodrigo Prieto's camera operation team as solid pacing editorial by Dylan Tichenor, who supported Director Ang Lee getting back on his feet after a major Hollywood big-budget production melt-down, where he eventually returned to with the all-over internationally successful motion picture "Life of Pi" (2012) to get recognized a second time by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Best Directing.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

An important and original romance that really and finally portrays the homosexual romance as two humans falling in love and never plays it for clichés.The movie occasionally drags, but in the end it is a powerful film featuring excellent acting and excellent writing. It is griping and also quite devastating. The drama is intense, and the emotions are raw.If you have the patience to sit through a slow-moving romance and you lack the vanity to be put off by explicit cowboy on cowboy relations, you'll greatly appreciate the light at the end of Brokeback Mountain, a work of art that's more than just a movie.A superb romantic drama featuring solid performances, especially from Ledger, and excellent direction from Lee. The complexity of the relationships between various characters, including both physical and emotional, is one of the movie's strengths and also featuring some beautiful and fitting music. ---Yidioo

What's love? Does it have boundaries? Does it fade with time? Can it be controlled? All these questions have been beautifully touched by Ang Lee's poignant movie Brokeback Mountain. The story demolishes the myth of stereotypical definition of love between two opposite genders & is also not a same sex cow boy love story as few critics have written it as. It's about the bond, the unstoppable longing between two men which only deepens with time to such an extent that they "find it hard to quit" on each other. The movie is extremely heart wrenching & leaves an indelible impression of hurt, longing & melancholy. Their casual encounter & daily routine as 2 Shepards in a farm amidst mountains takes an eventful turn in a fateful cold night when they unknowingly enter into a bodily relationship. After that, there's no looking back. Eventually they part ways, get married with two girls & father kids but after a gap of 4 years when they meet, their love gushes out like roaring turbulent water out of gates of a dam. Ennis played by Heath Ledger sacrifices his marriage but Jack played by Jake Gyllenhaal keeps his forbidden love secret. They continue meeting each other under the brokeback mountain, the place where they spent their early days & their love & longing deepens so much that they find hard to stand each others absence. This clandestine relationship continues for 15 years or so until the death of Jack(murdered by his own wife) tears them apart. The scene where Ennis goes to Jack's parental house to collect his ashes and finds Jack's jacket wrapped around his old shirt can wreck your soul. The way ageing, lonely Ennis with tear filled heavy eyes, sniffs the jacket of his soul mate is enough to shake the pride of even most stoic person. "How lonely remaining days of Ennis' life would be without his love" must have crossed every viewers mind. The impeccable direction, passionate storytelling & most importantly the brilliant & flawless acting by two actors make it a legendary movie of all times. No wonder numerous big awards including three Oscars are not tribute big enough for such a fabulous movie. Heath ledger, however couldn't convert best actor nomination into a win though he truly deserved it. He made up for this lacuna after winning Oscars for his iconic portrayal of joker in "The dark night" posthumously. Brokeback Mountain is a must watch for all class of people who want to feel what true love is like. It's the best tribute to my favourite Heath Ledger.