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Chained To My Bully Stepbrother (AI Vertical BL Drama)

By Golu
This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat.  The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
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Complete Strangers

By Golu
This is a good film to show an actor/directors obsession with himself and self-indulgence. There is not even a single scene in the film that doesn't have the lead actor (who happens to also be the director of the film). I mean it would have been ok if the character was charming, actor brought some freshness to it or things like that but instead his acting is bland and drab and makes you fall asleep with his single monotonous voice without any emotions.

Robert has returned from one year rehab and is finding it hard to connect with lover/partner Christian. Robert doesn't really remember what happened that led him to rehab except he has few vague memories of having BDSM sex with a stranger. Once back, he is already looking for hook-up/connection with ha new stranger named Hugo. Robert finds weird attraction for this guy within two meetings and despite him wanting to take slow, you can see some alarms, which Robert doesn't see. Despite warnings from his friends and his therapists, he decides to go for a weekend with Hugo to his cabin in woods. Hugo's behavior is erratic during the weekend and Robert finally feels something is fishy. He finds out that one year back, Hugo was the one who made a porn video of raping Robert which is now on internet. Robert eventually plans and succeeds in killing Hugo. But there is a surprise in the end, where it turns out that it was someone else all along who wanted Robert dead.

The makers have tried to give this film a nordic noir feel but IMO it fails miserably. The story has potential but it is dragged way too much. Clearly you see Hugo is a pusher and Robert finds it weird but why is he so careless and decides to go on a weekend to an unknown location. Had the equation between two been nothing but love, you can understand, but you can already see that they have issues. I just can't digest this stupidity. The conversations between Hugo and Robert are supposed to have this cat and mouse thriller vibe but they completely fall flat. Robert as a character is full of himself and I would not want to be friends with him. It is always about him. Hugo (both character and actor) was strictly ok, however, much better than Robert at least. The ending does come as a surprise, but not really.

This film is mostly bad because of really bad acting. A better screenplay and actors could have done slightly better for the film. (3.5/10)
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