Brokeback Mountain (DVD) Reviews

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Brokeback Mountain recieved huge acclaim in 2005 for its depiction of homosexuality in "mainstream" cinema, although given how tolerant and open-minded we are these days, I still fail to see why it was such a big deal that the film got a prominent release. Yes, when ...  Read the complete review

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Brokeback Mountain as two strangers who are thrown together one summer in the 1960s when they are both given work as cowboys on a mountain. At first they are unsure of each other but gradually the hardship of being out in the wilderness forces them to bond and they become friends. And then, one night they ...  Read the complete review

To summarise this movie concisely, it's a cowboy love story about a cowboy who falls in love with another cowboy... Now when I first saw the premise of this movie, I couldn't help but think this was going to be another soft-core gay porn movie. How wrong I was. Set in the 1960s in America, the two main characters of Jake Gyllenhaal and ...  Read the complete review

Brokeback Mountain is a rare mix of western and romance, with plenty of drama thrown in for good measure. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist, and the late Heath Ledger as Ennis del Mar, both looking for work in rural Wyoming in 1963. They meet when they are both assigned to the same job, working as shepherds up on Brokeback Mountain ...  Read the complete review

Brokeback Mountain in its own way is a love story. The film stars Jack Twist, played by Jake Gyllenhall and Ennis Del Mar, played by Heath Ledger. I saw this film man y months ago but decided to watch it again last night as I did enjoy it the first time around. Jack and Jake are both cowboys who are struggling to find work. The year is ...  Read the complete review

Brokeback Mountain basically tells the story of two men (Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger) who meet when they are both employed to herd sheep. The two of them form an emotional bond and then Jake Gyllenhall's character, Jack, makes a move on Heath Ledger's character, Ennis. At first Ennis is having none of it but then decides "What ...  Read the complete review

Film - Brokeback Mountain Stars - Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams You'll like this if you like - slow paced dramas Plot - Ennis and Jack are two cowboys employed to herd sheep out in the mountains. What ensues is one of the most unlikely romances you are likely to see. Both men see their feelings as wrong ...  Read the complete review

Brokeback Mountain is based on a story by Annie Proulx. The screenplay is by Larry McMurtry and it was directed by Ang Lee. The film explores the clandestine loving and sexual relationship of two men over the course of three decades as they simultaneously continue heterosexual married family lives. Rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ...  Read the complete review

It's summer 1963 and two men are hired as sheep herders on the slopes of Brokeback Mountain. It's really lonely up there and they form a very strong bond between them. This remains secret and we see them go through various melodramatic domestic incidents for the next twenty years. There are one or two bouts of fisticuffs here and there ...  Read the complete review

This was a very compelling and interesting film. I thought the late heath ledger played this role very well, and jake gyllenhaal was also completely believable. The acting is spot on, and i was gripped from start to finish in this film. I was laughing and crying, as some scenes were particularly disturbing. I did find the sex scene ...  Read the complete review

Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) star in this touching romantic drama on a somewhat unusual story for Hollywood - the love between two men. The film is based on the short story of the same name by Annie Proulx, and was directed by Ang Lee. Despite being nominated for 8 Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain only ...  Read the complete review

Jack Twist is a rodeo cowboy who goes in search of work and is sent up Brokeback Mountain with drifter Ennis Del Mar through the cold winter to herd sheep. When the cold winter gets too much for them, they bunk in the tent together for heat. Neither men are prepared at first for the twist that their relationship will take. They find themselves ...  Read the complete review

This film confirms my theory that there were gay cowboys. I like Western genre and none of the films I have seen ever show a gay male character. Brokeback Mountain is a film that is very unusual in that it tackles male to male love which is rarely highlighted in Hollywood, this I find very strange because larger than usual percentage ...  Read the complete review

This film has made into the elite of films that I have cried at, now joining Free Willy and Forest Gump. The film begins in 1963 when a ranch hand Ennis(Ledger) and Jack(Gyllenhaal) a aspiring bull rider get work herding flocks of sheep on Brokeback Mountain ( hence the title). To be honest the start of the film is a bit slow because ...  Read the complete review

I must admit when I first heard of the plot I was a bit vague thinking that the film would be very Queer as folk stylee with cowboy hats and American drawl. I was pleasantly surprised. This film was pure genious.I mean, of course there must have been gay cowboys.Homosexuality is not just for the stage and big cities! I felt that the script was ...  Read the complete review

Introduction I didn’t run to the cinema to see this film because of all the hype, but once it came out on DVD, I decided I had to see if it really was as good as I had heard. Usually, this is the kiss of death for me – I tend to love those films that the critics slate and am disappointed by those that are praised. In this case, I was really ...  Read the complete review

Apologies in advance for the length of the review, I was trying to cut bits out but it makes it difficult to do this wonderful movie justice! Arriving just in time for an Oscar nomination for its leading men, Ang Lee‘s intimate epic, “Brokeback Mountain” is the tale of forbidden love in the deep South with a twist…the love is between ...  Read the complete review

There was once an episode of South Park where the Sundance film festival was deemed as a load of movies about gay cowboys eating pudding. When the news of this movie first hit, I’m sure there were some who laughed. Now every year there is always one movie released to court an Oscar buzz. This year’s critical darling is Brokeback ...  Read the complete review