Customer Reviews

Race You to the Bottom

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

The two young 20-something leads here may go on to better things, but their acting skills in this low-budget indie are borderline amateur. They play the entire, mercifully short (70 min), film with fake cutesy smiles and forced expressions. Neither one is likeable. Their road trip to Napa Valley has some nice scenery, but that's the only redeeming quality in this painful disaster. I did like the indie soundtrack, but those are a dime a dozen these days. The lispy male lead was perhaps more annoying than the female, though why she thinks she can ever convert a gay man is the central flaw in this completely absurd mess.

The storyline was somewhat boring. The movie starts off slow and never picks up the pace. I recommend this for someone who isn't really interested in watching a good movie but just wants something in the dvd player while preoccupied with something else.

I give this film its only star because of the performance by Amber Benson, who at least made the character she played watchable.

However, I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed this movie. Neither of the two lead characters are in any way sympathetic nor do I particularly feel that the issue of fluid sexuality is dealt with in any way other than the superfluous. What we have is the tale of two utterly reprehensible, hedonistic and shallow people who are so blinkered by their own lust that they can't be bothered to even consider how their actions may hurt others, especially their respective boyfriends, whom they show nothing but contempt for. This would almost be excusable, if the characters through the course of their trip actually learned something, but they don't. Instead all we get are two self-centred characters on a sex-fuelled road trip that goes wrong and then they learn nothing from it. it is a literal road to nowhere both for the characters and the audience.

I found this film deeply depressing and indeed distressing,. I think anyone who has had bad relationships and have hang ups about relationships through that should avoid this film because it is a movie that will only succeed not in taking your mind away from your worries (as good entertainment should) but will re-enforce all your fears and woes and insecurities. it goes beyond bad story telling into the realms of the dangerous.

Amber Benson thoroughly deserves the awards and applaudes she got for this role, if for no other reason than it showed she could play a character with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, after having found fame as a character with many redeeming qualities. But the film itself is depressing, derivative and ultimately a throw away. it makes no point, and I'd even call the viewpoint callous from the writer/director, who seems to view fidelity as something to be mocked.

This film allows a different view at relationships and explores the dichotomy of faithfulness and sexuality. The film is well done and very heartfelt, one feels that the project was a labor of love for the entire crew. The ending is bittersweet and fits extremely nicely with the ambiguous message of this film.

This movie wuz disappointing just cuz the gay guy iz having an affair with a women and endz up with her. How lame iz that. He haz a boyfriend, a "girlfriend" (who haz a boyfriend also) and obviously flirts with guyz in front of his girl. How Rude! and to top off this line of pathetic lust she can't seem to stay away from he who doez not respect otherz. The drama in this film iz enough to keep me watching.