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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Excellent adaptation.

Dreadfully Boring

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Romeos focuses on Lukas, a trans boy who is living in a dorm as he does some sort of community work. The film focuses on Lukas' relationships with his friend Ine, who knew him before his transition, and Fabio a man who Lukas has mutual romantic feelings towards, as well as Lukas' struggles and achievements during transition. Romeos is an enjoyable film, though it contains some homophobia and a fair amount of transphobia. As far as I can tell Lukas is played by a cisgender man, which is not ideal. The film has a happy ending, and is very effective in portraying Lukas' dysphoria and anxiety about passing as a cisgender man. (spoiler)There is a short scene which involves attempted rape. (end spoiler) Would not recommend for anyone in a fragile emotional position, due to excessive amounts of transphobia shown by certain characters. Nevertheless Romeos is an enjoyable movie, the narrative treats its protagonist with respect and dignity, and the acting and production value is good quality.(Spoiler) Contains miss-gendering, dead naming, upper body nudity, attempted rape, t-slur, other transphobic and homophobic language (end spoiler)

Much more. "Romeos" is a German movie from 5 years ago written and directed by Sabine Bernardi. No surprise to see she is back to directing mediocre television projects as her effort here for this film is fairly mediocre as well, sometimes even bad. It runs for slightly over 90 minutes and takes us into the world of a young woman who intends to become a man via surgery. The first and possibly biggest problem is that the protagonist is played by a male and, not at one single point in the film, looks physically in a way like she has ever been a woman from the biological perspective. So yeah, bad casting decision, bad makeup etc. Your pick to make. Speaking about the story, it is not more convincing either. They try so hard to make this a touching film, but it never really gets past the attempt. The acting is not good on many occasions and the script isn't any better.The most known cast mate is certainly Liv Lisa Fries, who has become a breakthrough artist in recent years and been the lead in her own coming-of-age films recently. But she cannot elevate the material here either. In my opinion, this film has the same problem as so many other LBGT-themed movies. It is about a certain subject and, as a consequence, gets appreciated by audiences and awards bodies a lot more than it should. Audiences to whom this concerns should not just suck it up because it is about a certain subject, but they also need to want a certain level of quality, a level that is not reached here at any point. You cannot even blame the filmmakers for putting in so little effort if including a certain subject is already enough for a film to be liked. This is not a good film here and deserves none of the appreciation and popularity it received. I do not recommend checking it out. Thumbs down.

I liked this movie, but casting Rick Okon as Lukas was a serious problem for me. I never for one second believed he was or had ever been female, so I couldn't help relating to that character as a man and only a man.It's a sharp contrast to the casting 15 years ago of Steven Mackintosh in the mirror-image role of Kim in Different for Girls. Kim is a transgendered male-to-female, and Mackintosh is SO believable as a woman that I had to do considerable research to ascertain that the actor himself wasn't transgendered. He wasn't, and, in fact, he doesn't look the least bit feminine in real life, which makes his casting as Kim all the more remarkable.Romeos is a pretty good movie anyway, but it doesn't depict the transgender experiences of the character as successfully as it does his experiences as a man. The movie would have been better with someone else cast as Lukas or if Lukas had just been a gay man, which is how he comes across anyway.In order to make sense of the character Okon was portraying, I had to ignore all the transgender issues, which simply were absurd for that entirely male character, and I'm sure that's not what the director intended.

I've literally just returned from the screening of this movie and it's in my opinion one of the best titles out there dealing with the topic of transsexuality and even homosexuality.What is important and what this movie does so well, is dealing with the topic so problematic for any transgendered person that was ever attracted to someone of the same gender; which is, how to explain to others that being attracted to a woman doesn't make you a man - but feeling like a man does. Rick Okon does an amazing job - up to googling him I couldn't find out whether he is male or female in real life (the perfectly done breasts confused me) and I'm ashamed that I was focusing on this so much because it just shows once more how binary-minded we are about sex and gender, even though this topic is personal to me. However - for not being transgendered himself, the actor really gets the pain, the frustration, everything that is behind the feeling of not fitting in such a basic category system.I was also pleased with the development of other characters. In a love story, a view-point (and actually the whole life) of someone's best friend can get easily overlooked and I like how they dealt with it. The role of Fabio was also great and the scene with the trans-girl singing was just beautiful.Basically, if this movie would go on for another two hours, I would keep staring.