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What's the point?, 7 November 2004
Author:
Wayne Malin ([email protected]) from United States
Testosterone started as a gay novel written by a gay author suffering
from depression. It's a VERY grim, dark tale of Dean who is deserted by
his lover Pablo. But it seems Pablo has left him a gift--an HIV
infection. He spends the entire novel driving around Los Angeles
meeting various dark, disturbing characters and circumstances to track
Pablo down. The ending is very bleak.
This movie took the basic story, threw out the HIV angle completely and
has Dean tracking Pablo to Argentina to seek closure!!!! There he
encounters various hot men while trying to see Pablo. It ends (almost)
the same as the book--but this version seems to be a light-hearted
black comedy! I know that sounds strange but the tone kept shifting
around. I was never sure how to take this. The script meanders all over
the place, moves VERY slowly and (more than once) I wanted to hit Dean
and tell him to get over it! As an adaptation of the novel, it's
worthless. But on its own it's not that good either.
I'm giving it a 5 because David Sutcliffe was very good (and very hot)
as Dean; it was great seeing Sonia Braga again (looking fantastic); it
was fun to see Antonio Sabato Jr. out of his clothes--he can't act but
has a great body (and has a brief frontal shot!); and has a real HOT
Latino guy (Leonardo Brzazicki). Also the frequent shirtless shots of
Sutcliffe are nice and there's some real hot man-on-man kissing
(Sutcliffe and Sabato are straight but they seem very at ease in the
kissing scenes). But the meandering script does everybody in. And
Sabato is hardly in it (maybe 10-15 minutes).
I really can't recommend this film. I am wondering what they
intended--if they weren't going to be faithful to the novel why bother?
As it is this film is bombing. I saw it opening night in Provincetown
during Mens Weekend--including me there were THREE people in the
audience!
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