Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Sameer Callahan
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Sanjeev Waters
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
edwarddotcastro
This was so awful, I would have rated it 0.5 out of 10 if that scale existed. It was painful going beyond 30 minutes...It started off slow, and never picked up and the extremely poor acting really didn't help! It really isn't worth your Sunday afternoon. At times there were awkward moments and poor direction.The storyline was so paranormally unrealistic. I wanted to believe, but I couldn't. Weak all the way around. I wanted to believe in the characters, but I did not feel a genuine love anywhere in this movie. Even though I understood the plot, nothing made sense to me. The ending was much like the rest of the film, sketchy and poorly written. I am just sorry I wasted 45 minutes of my life watching this crap...worse is the realization that it actually won awards (or so they say)
ughetta86
This is a strange film and I can't give a vote, I can't really say if it's good or not. Better, this film isn't good, but it has some points that make me enjoy it. The best part is the begging, when it describes the two main characters falling in love for each other. The acting was good enough and the atmosphere represented looks sweet and delicate (the is the best point of the movie in my opinion).A part from that, the rest of the film is quite an insult to the viewers' intelligence and the mystic/supernatural tone neither is necessary to the development of the storyline nor makes any sense.In the end, my suggestion is: the film isn't a masterpiece, still it might be worth seeing, if you don't have anything better to do and you aren't too disappointed by the unbelievable supernatural elements in the plot. Otherwise avoid it!
Daniel Alderman
This was a first for me. A movie that was about equally good as it was horrendous. The story of two guys who find themselves in love. It's nice. The two actors have really great chemistry, which is pretty rare when you get straight guys playing gay roles. (I just have to assume both actors were straight, because they almost always are in this type of movie.) The story is interesting and wants so badly to be heartwarming, but then the writers and actors take turns messing it up. The two main actors are pretty good. The supporting cast, specifically the gay best friend (Bret Wolfe) and the wife's former working buddy (Kelly Keaton) were not so great. Wolfe took the gay stereotype into the offensive and Keaton just didn't play emotion well at all. The bad acting by those two, as well as by the prostitutes and the wife of the dead wife's brother (Bethany Dotson) lifted me entirely out of the flow of the film. I can't necessarily blame the actors. It looks like the film was very poorly directed in some spots and very well directed in others. The writing followed the same some bad/some good path. The ending was a let down and couldn't have been more predictable if it had been typed on the box. Not a great movie, not a horrible movie. I'm glad I watched it, all I can say is that I wish it'd been better.
Red-125
Back Soon (2007), written and directed by Rob Williams, is a film about two men who are surprised to find themselves attracted to each other.Windham Beacham plays Logan Foster, a man whose wife has recently died in an auto accident. Matthew Montgomery is Gil Ramirez, a young man with a past. Ramirez is drawn to Foster's house, which is for sale. Ironically, Foster's dead wife, Adrianne (played by Maggie Ellertson), was a real estate broker, and would have probably managed the sale of this property had the tragedy not occurred.Logan and Gil find themselves physically and emotionally attracted to each other. Because neither is gay, this attraction surprises and confuses them. So far so good.At this point, the movie took off into the realm of mysticism and the supernatural, and it was at this point that--for me--it lost its bearings and its power to instruct or entertain. "Brokeback Mountain" had a similar plot, and that film stayed true to its basic premise. Some things in life don't make perfect sense--they happen and we don't know why. The writer-director of "Back Soon" apparently thought that the viewers of the movie couldn't handle this kind of uncertainty, so he invented a plot line that explained the situation. People who make movies make choices, and I think this choice was not a good one.This film will work on DVD, should you choose to see it. It was shown at ImageOut, the Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. We saw six films at the festival. Three of them were very good, and two were excellent. "Back Soon" was the weak link.
