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AMRITA JAGPAL West Chester, Ohio...
...Chester, who pulled an Orson Wells as writer, director, and star of this film, has given America a gay love story for the “Love Actually” crowd. If you like clean, beautiful New York apartments and well-kempt men who look like they just walked out of a Calvin Klein ad, then Chester’s film will entertain you… for a few minutes...
After a while, the two-dimensional acting will completely and utterly bore you. There is barely a palpable plot – two gay men in New York City, Adam (Chester) and Steve (Malcolm Gets) must overcome an animalistic sexual attraction to find true love – and nary a trace of dinginess ever creeps into the East Village setting...
...only thing the film does to keep your focus is crack jokes. Chester has a wicked sense of humor, but it appears too infrequently to produce a lasting effect. Instead, he drowns his film in a fictional New York City where gay relationships are the norm and heteros are an endangered species...
Then again, that may not sound so fictional. But the film’s fantasy world never draws the audience in because Chester never commits to the fantasy’s efficacy. Every public display of homosexual affection is accompanied by a barrage of beer bottles from a New Jersey hick or a self-conscious sermon about New York’s gay-bashing epidemic...