Review of Burning Blue

Burning Blue (2013)
2/10
Interesting topic, awful movie
31 August 2014
Warning: Spoilers
You are lead to believe this is a story about the romance between 2 air force officers. Instead its written as a story about the friendship between the lead and his selfish, homophobic friend. The supposed love story consists of longing looks, the 2 officers dancing next to each other, a weird night with sex with woman from a bar where they stay in the same room on leave, and 1 kiss about 2/3 through this train wreck. When you finally think you are getting to the love story its ended, and now a witch hunt starts about their non-love affair. The movie is so afraid to show anything between them beyond longing glances, that even when the leads are shown shirtless in a locker scene, its for a split second. Apparently shirtless guys are just too "out there" for this film. I could swear this was directed by a homophobe or a religious conservative.

This could have been a great movie, instead its a great topic with a terrible treatment. I do think the actors showed some chemistry (in the endless longing looks), but the butchered story line left them nothing for them to do with it.
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