Sorry, but this movie was bad!! bad bad
I was very disappointed. I always thought "Hey thats still Don Cheadle up there".
Too much lame drama and weird sexual tension between the 2 male leads. Anyone else feel this way?
Acting was way too dramatic!
This is like a TV movie with a lot of F-bombs and fistfights, and you are right that there's a sexual subtext between the male leads but the film doesn't dare explore it. Don Cheadle is an excellent actor, but he's way overdoing it here.
What really annoys me about this film is the stereotypical station owner played by Martin Sheen: "This time you've really gone too far!" Ah yes, the clueless voice of authority. What would a film like this be without a cookie-cutter portrayal of "the man"?
Excellent old-school soundtrack, though. If only the characters would stop talking over it!
I can see the TV movie aspect....kind of more like a 70s TV aspect really. Nonetheless, there have been plenty of really good made-for-TV flicks. On that level, I enjoyed most of the movie. The period stuff was largely excellent (fashion and language), and I thought Cheadle did a fantastic job inhabiting this character. The shortcomings I think were in what you mentioned, and certainly some of the story contrivances. Sheen was stereotypical, but he played the stereotype about as well as anyone.
The soundtrack is really, really superb with very few missteps (as much as I love "Time Has Come Today", hasn't it been given its due by now?). Anything with the original "Tainted Love" can not be bad!