While the first half slugs along at a strange pace, with awkward jokes and only the parts with Sverrir Gudnason are true standouts, the pacing in the second half picks up massively and delivers a truly hurtful experience. While the film oozes with Mortensen's painfully liberal politics and his performance and direction are probably the most unfortunately dull parts of the film, those don't really matter in the face of Lance Henriksen's suckerpunch of a performance and some really great scenes between the two as well as Gabby Velis.

While the first half slugs along at a strange pace, with awkward jokes and only the parts with Sverrir Gudnason are true standouts, the pacing in the second half picks up massively and delivers a truly hurtful experience. While the film oozes with Mortensen's painfully liberal politics and his performance and direction are probably the most unfortunately dull parts of the film, those don't really matter in the face of Lance Henriksen's suckerpunch of a performance and some really great scenes between the two as well as Gabby Velis.

an earnest attempt was made, i'm sure of it. underneath an hour and a half of this old bigoted dude saying bigoted stuff, there's the heart viggo envisioned.

an earnest attempt was made, i'm sure of it. underneath an hour and a half of this old bigoted dude saying bigoted stuff, there's the heart viggo envisioned.

2021 Ranked

I guess I have to give some credit where it’s due. If you’re tired of new movies portraying queer characters as exaggerated stereotypes of their sexuality, then this movie will work on that level. Outside of that it’s just Lance Henriksen throwing out slur after slur for 2 hours and then he gets cancer and he keeps calling Viggo Mortensen slurs. Like we get it he’s homophobic. Give us something else. There’s like no character to anyone besides Viggo’a character. It sucks. It’s repetitive and boring and stupid and that’s that. 

This made me mad :)

2021 Ranked

I guess I have to give some credit where it’s due. If you’re tired of new movies portraying queer characters as exaggerated stereotypes of their sexuality, then this movie will work on that level. Outside of that it’s just Lance Henriksen throwing out slur after slur for 2 hours and then he gets cancer and he keeps calling Viggo Mortensen slurs. Like we get it he’s homophobic. Give us something else. There’s like no character to anyone besides Viggo’a character. It sucks. It’s repetitive and boring and stupid and that’s that. 

This made me mad :)

A very good try, Viggo! You’ll get em next time!

A very good try, Viggo! You’ll get em next time!