Overrated

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

It's unfortunate that a film that could have been so good fell victim to all the boring stereotypes. When a young dudebro comes out to his friends, he is met with mild (yet expected) homophobia that turns to understanding, love, and acceptance. However, while we go on that ride of friendship, we are subject to so many unfortunate tropes and stereotypes that make the movie...annoying at best. Not enjoyable at worst.While the film's strength lies in its portrayal of friendship, it suffers immensely in how the romantic relationships (both heterosexual and homosexual) are written. It's redeeming quality is the fact that the actors are enjoyable to watch, even when acting out eye rolling scenes that have been seen a million times before in LGBT films.

Evan Todd is Adam, who wants to come out to his friends, but finds it hard to do. He finally does, and once his friends get over themselves, they decide to help with his dating selections. Some hilarious scenes in the restaurant where he has a whole lot of terrible, awkward first dates. Throw in the religious next door neighbor who is determined to convert Adam back. Of course, his friends are goofy, but they mean well, and even take him to a gay bar. Also some really funny one-liners here and there, both gay and straight jokes. I really liked the style of saying the line, then moving right on without dwelling on it. Good directing style. Great job by all. Co-stars Parker Young, Chord Overstreet, John Gabrus.Written by Aaron Dancik... his one and only film so far. Wonder if this was his own story. This is the fourth film directed by Andrew Nackman, two of which he had written! Good stuff. Look forward to seeing more from this group. Currently showing on netflix.

There's a richly promising premise here that, amazingly, few other coming out films have tackled: how do you come out without losing your best buddies, especially if they're regular working-class, beer-drinking, pussy-chasing guys. Unfortunately, Fourth Man Out doesn't manage to negotiate the territory without resorting to the most annoying and lazy stereotypes. So just about every other gay man that our hero Adam meets is a snippy queen. And the only one that's not a snippy queen is a lying, cheating, sleazy douche-gag. Okay, this is a comedy, but seriously... does the core audience for this kind of film really find the pretentious fairy that amusing? The chorus of straight best friends are no less stereotypical, but somewhat better drawn, and the humour less forced. Still, Fourth Man Out never quite lives up to its early promise, and the definitive film about how best buddies survive one of them coming out is still to be written.

Few and far between are films that put gay characters in a sharp, naturalistic, authentic light. Its great production values portray the lead Adam in as flattering a way as first impressions can afford. The weaknesses of this film overcome its strengths by a mile. The usage of the line "I'm gay" seemed endless, running through the entirety of the film so that you are beaten over the head with it. The film feels like a rehearsal of the line. The character seems like he is trying to feel what it is to be gay as he repeats the line to himself and to others.We get some insight into how Adam's straight friends feel about it all and some insight into how Adam feels about them. Not much insight into anything else Adam feels besides largely concern for what his friends think. This is too simple.And for good reason. Every last other character including supporting cast falls very flat. At some later point or another a series of hard C- grade walking stereotypes from the 90's show the film for the embarrassing mess that it is. Narcissistic, one-note, crass, obsessive, perverse guys all there in name to date Adam.It is really silly. Take the production values and make something more interesting for everyone involved. A script should not have its apex center around a series of caricature dates between someone who is freshly out and token gay stereotypes.