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The Worst Film Ever

Beautiful, moving film.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Ooooh i so enjoyed this movie. Everything about it was wonderful. Love the actors, black and white. Love the melancholy in everything you see. Love the beautiful scenery of the Bahamas's and really loved the music in the back. This movie has so many dimensions. It is a love story but it is also a statement that shows that homophobia is harmfull for the people we love and that gay people are everywhere. Being gay i could really relate to Johnny because i now how it feels to be left out. So that performance was really convincing. The role of Romeo was also pretty convincing. I've learned that there are gay people acting like they are straight around others but when you are alone with them they hit on you. The only thing i hate in gay movies overall is that the gay character always dies in the end. That is so cliché and it spoiled the fun.... a bit. Because all the other things are sublime i forgive the director for this bit.Overall it is a very good movie and one of my recent favourite gay flicks. I would certainly recommend it to anybody who loves a gay romance movie or people who need to open their minds about the gay topic. Well done!!!!!

This is a movie that leaves you in doubt as to the intentions of the maker. There's this positive way you can look at it. It could be a love story against the romantic background of the Bahamas. It could also be the coming-of-age story of a shy and complicated young man that struggles with his sexuality, and then is helped and liberated by a more experienced and relaxed lover. These points of view could make for a decent and beautiful feel-good movie.On the other hand there's a rather negative streak to this movie. There are all these very harsh and heavy issues: the religious and cultural bigotry on the Bahamian islands, the abuse of women, discrimination and gay bashing (to extreme extent). And mind you, these heavy issues are not just dealt with in a low-key background-like way, but very prominently and graphic. And to add to all this ambiguity: not one of all these issues (positive or negative) is solved in the end, so as a result the movie ends frustratingly bland, leaving you (or at least me) depressed and very unsatisfied (and the very last scene doesn't really make up for this, it's idiotic and misplaced!).On the good side I have to say that the acting is overall fine and convincing. Especially the supporting cast is quite good. I also liked one of the two protagonists Stephen Tyrone Williams, he's a natural talent with lots of charisma and an appealing physique (not unimportant in the story). But I had some reservations about Johhny Ferro as the other main character Johnny. It's probably mainly due to the script and the direction, emphasizing his supposed shyness, but he appears not to act at all, he just stands about, looks vexed all of the time (even during his one love-scene) and only speaks with a monotonous almost trembling voice. Add to this his (I'm sorry, Johnny!) rather plain and scruffy looks and his skinny frame. Sure, it gives him a puppy-like cuteness, but it still impressed me as a miracle (and as totally unrealistic) that this athletic cool and relaxed Romeo should even look twice at him, let alone lust after him.Johnny's character is supposed to undergo some sort of positive Werdegang: an evolution from neurotic and sexually insecure recluse to a more self-assured being, but the movie never gives us real proof of this. When Johnny in the end stands up in a crowded preaching-house to confront the woman who raves against homosexuals, it looks like a very brave thing to do. But then the script only makes him say silly platitudes, like "Why don't you leave us alone?" or "Who cares about all this?" or "He who is without sin casts the first stone". Not much to leave a lasting impression and the script just leaves it at that, we don't even get to see how the raving woman or the community react to him. When Johnny speaks to Romeo for the last time, he just lets Romeo go on and on with excusing himself and never confronts him with his inconsistency and hypocrisy. And when in the very end Johnny finally stands up to some of his old bashing tormentors, again he only gets to use feeble and cliché lines, like: "you just compensate for your small dick" (my god, couldn't the writer come-up with something better than that!). Not much of a catharsis there. And then this costs him dearly (I won't give it away), which again makes you wonder what the message of the writer/director is. Feels a bit like: don't bother, you never can win.Another disappointment to me was the use of the surroundings. We're on the Bahama's, for crying out loud, one of the supposed great romantic escapes of the world. The whole movie is shot there on location, but all we get to see of the beauty of it is one scene at he beach where Romeo and Johnny snorkel together. For the rest we see endless dusty roads, little dilapidated houses, ugly beach-sides and some local bars. What a waste!! All in all an unbalanced movie with an ambiguous message (if any) and a depressing lasting impression. Oh, and rather bad PR to the Bahamas, I would say. I'm gay and love to travel to sunny shores, but this movie made me see that for gay people the Bahamas are the last place to go to for a holiday.

I wouldn't say that acting is the best I have seen but the characters are believable and heartfelt.Tyronne Willaims and Johnny Ferro on screen paint a picture of finding ones self and falling in love.Some of the story is predictable but not less of a great movie.There are moments in this movie that gave me goosebumps like the dancing scene with no music. You could feel some raw emotion.The movie go's at a quite a slow pace but is very entertaining.The mixture of lives unfolding on a beautiful paradise islands let me watch this movie with ease.There is a moment in the movie that all people dread when Tyronne's family arrives to find out he is not who is expected to be.I don't want to give away too much.But if your in the mood for drama and your not to adverse to Gay themes. This is a great movie with some great performances.

I am not aware how strong is the state of repression and bigotry that governs or not Caribbean societies, but the director and writer of this film is a Bahamian; it is then a shame that the way he addresses these issues derives from a sitcom approach. This is enough to stall matters into a regressive political state.The boys share a nice dance, and dancing the way they do it, popping out of bed instead of doing the sex routine, and do "how they feel like", as one of the two admonishes, is something we do not come to expect from gay themed movies. This much is true. It is also true that the soundtrack is good, but it is like it does all the work that should be put into a more cinematic approach.The stories do not interconnect, they are left on the device of some sort of nebulous plea that should run by itself. And then, at the film's final spin, the script abandons its spine for an unabashed melodramatic, quasi-metaphysical last seal that brings the house down.We then gather lines spoken before that foreground that sentimentalized last installment that comes out of and into the blue. This is bad, and it is a pity because the two leads are good, though Jonny Ferro is better by far. And then the summer-drenched cinematography proves that colors only are God's children in this film, and humans fail to connect with them, unless it is at the moment of their death. This does not sing the blues, it is just irrelevant.