Excellent, Without a doubt!!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I was pleasantly surprised about this movie. It was not full of gay stereotypes and clichés, in fact at times countered them, and yet I was not feeling sorry for the plight of love lorn gay men. Simply,it was about the struggles of relationships, both gay and straight, and the musings: if you did the right thing on the date, if you said or acted in an off putting manner. It addressed the issues of lack of communication and then brutal honesty, misunderstandings on not being able to commit, fear to communicate honestly of what is expected and needed out of relationship. The movie portrays the hard road of getting to know if you have the chemistry, friendship, sex appeal,sex, etc that all can make or break the fragile act of getting to know another. The acting was amazing. The camera angles captured the expressions of all the characters and their emotions of angst, anger, fear, joy, relief, trust, revelation. In the opening scenes of a first date the fear in the eyes of one of the characters was visceral. The use of colors; rust browns and blues, in clothing, sets, in various hues and exposures contributed to beauty and intimacy. The use of apartment walls and windows to follow the characters was neat and creative. So this isn't any longer, I just love the actors, the story, and camera work. It made it to my very picky "own" movie library. It is one of the best romantic comedies I have watched.

While I'm not saying this movie is realistic (I don't think most movies are) I will say I found it emotionally honest. This movie is rare in another sense. It involves people who know how to use wit. Very few movies show people who are consciously funny and even fewer pull it off. ALL OVER THE GUY surprised me. I was expecting a feel-good film with some slapstick, but what I got was a comedy with some thought. It is closer to a feel-good film than high drama, but it's not a lie, which most feel-good films are. The acting would lift any script, but the script is really good anyway. The DVD I saw had a commentary track with the director, the writer/star and the editor and, as with the movie itself, the commentary track gave me a chance to listen to people who know how to make a point.

This is a story about Eli and Tom, who met, fell in love, discovered that they have issues with each other, thus setting up the standard will-they-or-won't-they-live-happily-ever-after romantic comedy scenario, except that in this case it is about two men. There are many things to recommend this film, a good script, the reasonably good acting (for the most part, not sure about Dan Bucatinsky), characters that you might care about, the gentle comedy, but above all, a good heart.A number of things fail this movie however. The main thing being that Dan Bucatinsky is not convincing as a romantic lead, a wiser writer would not have cast himself as the lead. While it is obvious that for Eli it is love at first sight (or rather when he first looked into Tom's eyes), it's hard to tell what Tom sees in Eli. There is a good reason why the leads in romantic films are generally attractive people (and Richard Ruccolo is good looking), and it is to stop us asking this awkward question. The direction is somewhat patchy, with some strange changes of tone - for example, after the Tom's AA meeting and what seems to be setting up of a possible rape scene but which is then quickly dropped and then just some vague reference to getting beaten (why is the scene there anyway if the director is afraid of dealing with its full ramifications?).I love, however, the last scenes between them, touching and beautifully done. Overall, it is, if we can ignore the fact that it is also that rare thing of a romantic comedy film about two men, an above average film.Just one last word - to the guy who threw in a gratuitous comment about Brokeback Mountain, we don't know if Jack was murdered, it is all in Ennis' imagination and set out to be deliberately ambiguous. I do wish IMDb has a policy of disallowing from reviewing those who do not have the cognitive and reasoning capabilities better than those of a fly.

i was reading all the other comments in that web page, i have got to say well different people different views. The movie itself is worth talking about yet it didn't really got the exposure needed. The acting was excellent and i think Richard did a very good job so as all the other casts of the movie. The sex was good but not the main reason why this movie is watchable (is there such a word?) Love is what draws me to the movie. The relationship between the guys and their friends are so similar to my life and i was so glad that at least some people will get to know my life a little bit not that anyone would care to. i love escaping into the movie and this is one i often let myself escape into. They should make more movies like this.