16 out of 19 people found the following review helpful:

So it's rubbish then!!

A Customer from Leicester, 16th August, 2004

I just love people who write a review 'it was so bad I had to stop watching after an hour!
Then how can you review it? Yes it was made on a budget, and yes it's not the greatest movie ever - but it has a wit behind it which makes up for that! Bad in places the whole is the total of the sum parts and really it adds up! And remember it was'nt full of highly paid pro actors - give it some credit!

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11 out of 17 people found the following review helpful:

Cool

Daniel Fennell from Richmond , Surrey, 6th July, 2004

A romantic yet enjoyable experience, this is a must see, my boyfriend and I loved it, although its a budget film and belive me you can tell, it was well worth the cuddle on the couch!! :-) let us know what you think?

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8 out of 11 people found the following review helpful:

Tis dire, dated and dull.,,,

dafaddu from the north will rise again, 31st March, 2004

BUT Steve Bell (Craig) gives a good neo-naturalistic performance, despite the hackneyed script. Whereas Ian Rose is excruciatingly dreadful as Matt. The London gay scene / music biz dramaturgy is as dull as yesteryears gak.

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7 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

Steve packs a punch

Richard Holland from North Wales, 20th December, 2005

Full marks for newcomer Steve Bell whose extraordinarily naturalistic performance is far and away the best in the film. As a featherweight boxer who'd never acted professionally before it's a wonderful achievement (and he's straight, needless to say). He brings much-needed believability to an otherwise daft bit of gay movie fluff. He also brings a great deal of genuine charm and an incredibly sexy body, but we won't linger on that (although the camera lingers on it ... a lot). The idea of a gay bare-knuckle fighter seems preposterous but the director insists in the Making Of that 'Craig' is based on a real individual he once went to bed with. Well, the idea is obvious fantasy fodder, true or not. Like It Is is OK, the script's not bad and it's fairly slickly shot, but the performances (bar that of Mr Bell's) are generally shaky and the plot is by-numbers. Interesting to see Roger Daltrey play a gay man: he's never been the best actor in the world, but he makes a worthy effort as a manipulative and rather sleazy media exec. There's also an appearance by Craig Charles's brother Emile, who I hadn't seen in anything since The Fruit Machine. But it's Steve Bell who is the undoubted star - as serendipitous a bit of casting as that of his namesake Jamie in a rather better known British movie.

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Of its time

SussexChris from , 22nd December, 2009

One of a batch of gay themed Brit flicks from this period (Beautiful Thing, Get Real etc), which all featured young male protagonists, tortured by their sexuality. None were especially well acted, but all had their charms and some novelty value, in this cases appearances by Roger Daltrey and Dani Behr. The lead, Steve Bell, is a boxer both in this film and in real life. This held my attention on DVD, ten years after I saw it at the cinema, but it just fizzles out at the end, as though they were told to make a 90 minute film and were determined not to go a minute over. An interesting period piece, but not a classic.

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It was....

A Customer from Watford, 31st July, 2009

Not the best of the bunch. A bit too cliched for my liking but good performances from the cast. Not the greatest in quality production either but then it was made for TV (I believe). Choose if you've seen everything else.

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like it is

sccboyle from , 26th July, 2009

dont hire this its not good!!

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Average

CS from , 28th May, 2009

A good film well directed but not a must see.

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