User Reviews

Price (Bryce Blais, with his great abs) goes to the gulf states, as someone says, looking for his "friend". boyfriend Bo is in the military, but has gone missing. Khaled Haider is Price's tour guide, who may or may not have answers to questions that Price has not yet asked. Sadly, no locations are listed on imdb... so many beautiful places. Too bad we don't know where they were filmed. Dale Dymkoski is "Combs", who pops up now and then, but for most of the film, we're not sure what his role is. he's a little too jovial, always cracking wise-ass jokes to communicate. Liberal use of sound effects.. in the background, we continually hear chopper noises and air force jets flying past. The story is good, but it's pretty lightweight, as we skip over any real deep detail. some cheesy lines, and some plot holes, but it's entertaining. and the fact that homosexuality is illegal here adds an element of danger. Bryce Blais spends much of the film shirtless, so that's interesting. Written and directed by Everett Lewis, who also did Pretty Boys, Luster and Skin and Bone, all ( good!) LGBT films. Lewis used some of the same cast here for Pretty Boys. Good stuff!

It was so drawn out with little to no action.

It was technically a bad film too the lighting was poor, the lines were crass, really the only good thing was the fact that the main character was shirtless for most of the film...

If you need a film to send you to sleep go for it otherwise move on...

I really enjoyed this film; saw it twice in two days. It takes place in a mideastern war zone and concerns a search by a young civilian man for his missing military boyfriend. In the search he encounters various familiar characters just off the news page. A US government agent provokes and uses the young man for both propoganda and to stir up trouble with the locals. A tour guide with whom he forms a strong bond helps him find his friend. An official of the country seeks to make use of the situation for both personal and bureaucratic gain. Another undercover agent from another agency stalks the others to find out secrets and, if possible, to commit a terrorist act....maybe. This makes the pot boil considerably and requires some close watching to keep track. I was more than happy to watch it again to absorb all the pieces and they do, indeed, fit into a rather complex puzzle. There is plenty of scenic grandeur with desert locations and an old roman ruin, a coluseum, where crucial action between the principals occurs, The symbolism of gladiators is not lost but heightened by the careful photography from the seats and side corridors of the ruins. Man, the more I write this, the more I appreciate the work that went into it. The young man who is searching is very good looking and clean cut which emphasizes his relative purity and innocence in facing a bunch of dishonest and evil characters. I am a gay man and found the depiction of gay characters to be way more than acceptable, even heroic. Thank you. I get that the distribution of this film has a checkered history and right here on this site it refers to a French subtitled version. I saw this on Dekko where it sits happily with many other fine gay features. *** A new viewing...knowing the plot did not detract. Some of this film is on the "handheld" side but it adds to the flavor of danger and suspicion of the plot. The hero is hot. There is no other way to describe him. A lot of shirtless time always a plus.

I don't know why some people here have reviewed this film so poorly. Jealous much or is it just some kind of inferiority complex because perhaps they failed to become a director or writer themselves?

As a native Middle Eastern and a native Arabic speaker, I found this film well-developed, exciting, interesting, and full of action and suspense to keep me engaged and surprised at every scene, not knowing what will happen next. I found the acting pretty good, the directing also good, and the overall scenery and appeal quite realistic.

From the looks of the landscape and the story, and Arabic dialect spoken by the Arabic characters, this film was probably filmed in Jordan. It's the only country with such a landscape and neighboring war-torn Syria. It cannot be Iraq or Lebanon based on the desert landscape and the fact that Iraq is simply unsafe to travel for non-essential purposes. For an LGBT film, and compared to many other films I watched in the same LGBT genre, this movie is actually pretty good. Well-done Everitt Lewis! Great screen play and pretty good directing.