Review of Best Men (1997) by Cedric R — 26 May 2009

I'm giving this movie five stars. I found it more organic and entertaining than most "heist" films. First of all, it's a comedy, and the ending could have been ABSOLUTELY ridiculous, but it wasn't.

It was very realistic, and well-done I thought. More engaging than SPEED, more funny than any of those dumb KNOCKED UP movies. Best Bromance EVER! I loved it. The movie poses the question of its own identity: comedy or tragedy, and it turns out to be a tragedy.

In another film, everyone would have been fine in the end, but that's not what happened. It starts as a comedy, but the comedy dissolves as the situation gets more complicated. Shakespeare is a woderful reference since even his later comedies were considered tragi-comedies because they walked the line between the two.

This film also does that.