Moreton shows plenty of ambition in his second feature, but somewhere in the space between page and screen, he lost the thread.
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09/26/05
Testosterone (2003)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:2
Rotten:29
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Testosterone is a poorly executed attempt at film noir that follows good-looking yet bland characters through an ultimately aimless plot.
Synopsis: Dean Seagrave (David Sutcliffe), a brilliant graphic novelist with writer’s block, hasn’t been himself lately. Not long ago his sex-bomb Argentine lover Pablo (Antonio Sabato, Jr.) left their... [More]
Starring: David Sutcliffe, Antonio Sabato, Sonia Braga, Jennifer Coolidge
Director: David Moreton
Reviews for Testosterone
incredibly plot-heavy yet feels light as a feather
04/01/05
Filled with pretty faces and empty logic, David Moreton's noir-wannabe Testosterone flounders about, doing everything but flutter its eyelashes in an attempt to distract us from its lack of substance.
01/14/05
The movie's primary interest seems to be in following several good-looking men wherever they care to meander.
12/17/04
Top CriticA pointless, wandering tale of obsession that seems to have little purpose beyond showing that gay characters can be in a messed-up movie too.
12/17/04
[Relies] on a creaky plot and gaping lapses in plausibility.
12/17/04
Unfortunately, Testosterone isn’t as provocative as its premise or its title.
12/11/04
A tonal car wreck -- the equivalent of Chuck Norris crashing though the pages of an Isabel Allende novel.
12/10/04
The tone-challenged movie is meant to be a dark comedy, but there are long stretches without laughs.
12/09/04
Broken hearts and testosterone don't mix well with machetes (I think I would have preferred watching the 10 months of romance that they skipped over in the beginning).
12/03/04
A lackluster and meandering exercise in psycho-sexual provocation.
12/02/04
The film’s major objective appears to be showing cute men doing suggestive things. But if that’s your thing, why not just look at pictures? Why ruin it with a story?
11/27/04
This is a movie in which things happen for no reason other than that the director wills them to happen in order for something else to happen, logic be damned.
11/26/04
Woefully shallow.
11/21/04
The male characters are bland, a fatal flaw for a gay movie, while the women - Celina Font, Sonia Braga and Jennifer Coolidge - steal the show.
11/19/04
If you want to see a movie with some real chops about gays in Argentina, rent Wong Kar Wai's still-hip, still-smoldering Happy Together from 1997, and happier you will be.
11/04/04
It's evident that Dean is capable of getting many other good-looking boyfriends if he so desires -- why get so worked up over one who's a jackass?
10/22/04
Heavy on the eye candy, light on plot and logic.
10/22/04
105 grueling minutes of film noir-inflected nonsense.
10/22/04
Never manages to reconcile its conflicting tones and ultimately lacks the wit necessary to fuel its outlandish plotting.
09/29/04
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