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 ...
Dom and Cole are a married gay couple looking to adopt a baby. While making videos about themselves, they are still waiting to get picked up by a potential mother. For their upcoming anniversary, they decide to take a Roman holiday, which would also double as their baby moon, give they are at very last stages. The dup have some anxieties about parenthood, but nothing different from anyone else. For their anniversary night, Dom's father's closest friend who is Italian has booked them into a dinner experience at some really popular chef in rural Italy. Meanwhile, the prospective mother chooses them as the kids parents and they are both happy. But trouble is following this couple very closely. Not many people speak English in rural area and their car gets struck in mud on their way. It starts to rain and finally they get some help and are dropped off at this old lady's home. She doesn't speak English but she managed to feed them with her speaking in Italian and them in English. The power goes off on the rainy night and they accidentally trip over the old lady killing her. Unsure of what/how to do, they debate to run away, only to have her son suddenly appear. When he finds out hey are going to be come fathers, more confusion follows the couple ends up killing the son too mistakenly and then the son's girlfriend. They manage to escape and go back to US, in time to welcome their child, while questioning their own relationship foundation and are they ready to be parents.
The film is a silly comedy about fears. Sadly, these days there are very few comedies that actually make me laugh. This one felt more like cringe. During their nightmarish trip, they must decide if a life together is really what they want. Of course, it all gets a bit ridiculous when the Americans’ bumbling causes the bodies to pile up. The film morphs into a blood-drenched slapstick, complete with bone-crunching antics and miscommunication induced by language barriers. I had no idea where is it that the film eventually was trying to go. While talks of adoption is happening, the film gets into this warm and tender zone and then few minutes later into this over-the-top murder situations, which was not very smooth. I didn't care much for the actors. They were fine but lacked the charm to pull off the goofiness, plus did anyone else think that they lacked any chemistry at all. While their self-absorption and survivalism at any cost make Dom and Cole kind of reprehensible people, the actors offset all that with a sweetness that renders it possible to believe they’ll also make loving dads. The film otherwise, is a series of silly events happening in life of a gay couple that get progressively ridiculous and bloodier on a Roman Holiday. (4/10)
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