So the good things. Two great actors given some good lines and they are indeed fine performances. The problem is it's all such a cliche. As usual gay men are portrayed as successful, artistic, sensitive people with rich, educated friends. Why do we never see two gay men who work in a factory and live a normal life? All the characters are broad brush middle class cliches too. Had they chosen to tell the story of two men from working class backgrounds I think this movie could have had something to say but because it is reduced to the same old tropes it just ends up being a slow study of privileged people dealing with a horrible situation. I ended up longing for Colin Firth to beat up some thugs with an umbrella and a pint glass. Not awful, just cliched and derivative
