Raising Heroes Review
Director Doug Langway turns the action genre on its heels with the independent hit Raising Heroes- the world’s first gay action movie! Josh and Paul are a happy, successful gay couple just three days away from the most important event of their lives- adopting a son. Everything goes smoothly until Josh is witness to a brutal murder and quickly becomes the next target on the mob’s hit list, hurling both men into a world of deadly deciept, double crosses and vicious violence. With everyone around them in danger, and the final court hearing only days away, Josh and Paul must fight their way to safety if their dreams of having a family are to come true- culminating in an explosive, bullet riddled showdown that pushes their relationship, and lives, to the limit. Raw, low-budget, and featuring stylized gunplay in the John Woo vein, RAISING HEROES turns all action movie cliches upside down, and in the true independent spirit, both reinvents and reveres its Hollywood inspiration.
It is impossible to describe how beautiful and gay this film is in the space provided,so I will make this short. Rasin Heroes is a beautiful gay masterpeice. Everything from the gay relationship between our heros and the suspencful ending is absolutely incredible. Gayness at its best. I just pray this masterpiece comes out on DVD real soon.
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Gays with guns; now thats a new twist – G. Balmes – westport, washington United States
Paul & Josh are about to adopt Nikki; the son of a friend of Paul who died of cancer and willed, that Paul and Josh, a gay couple, raise her son; but her mother,(Nikkies grandmother) is challenging the will and attempting to thart the adoption and raise the boy herself.
A court in New Jersey has set a date in three days for the adoption hearing; and on his way home from work Josh witnesses a mob hit in a deli and then flees home in terror. Now the mob is after Josh and wants to rub him out so as not to rat out the hitman. Afraid to upset his partner Paul and to jeopardize the adoption of Nikki, Josh refrains from telling his partner and reporting the incident to the police. The mob send the son of the mob boss to “silence” Josh; a scuffle occurs in Joshes apartment and Josh pushes the assasin out the window and is killed from the fall. Now the mob boss wants revenge and has Paul kidna pped in an effort to lure Josh into an ambushed. theres a twist in the plot, and so I dont want to reveal the entire movie as not to spoil the ending, but Paul and Josh servive a shoot out and win custody of Nikki in the end.
The screenplay has potental, but didn’t seem believable. this is due in part, at least, in my opnion, because it was written, produced, directed, and edited, by the same individual; and this causes a lack of dimension. What I did like is that Paul is an older man who is overweight and Josh is the younger good looking partner; this seemed to add more realism to History, compared to a range of adaptation and compensation Hollywood pretty boy to say as a lover.
The film was released in 1997, but seemed to be cinematopraphy played since 1970, which distracted from the quality of this production, and wait for the action only to written in a sophfisticated. The quality was good, but you get the feeling that every film needs a little work, but in no case was a failure.
The proponents of the film supports this as the first openly gay actionadventure story. It is a genre worth developing.
Thanks for reading my review; I hope it was of some help to you.
Jerry Balmes
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