Best Men Part 1: The Bachelor Party--The Review

When you watch the new Falcon film Best Men: The Bachelor Party it's probably a good thing to try and not think about the off-camera drama that accompanied the production. You'll enjoy it more and appreciate the good things about it that will probably make this a hit. Best Men: The Bachelor Party isn't a perfect film but it does have a hefty dose of hot sexy scenes featuring hot sexy actors and some nice comedic touches that should satisfy most viewers. Best Men: The Bachelor Party isn't quite a sex comedy although there are some farcical elements that hopefully will be explored in part two of this gay wedding saga.
Overall, there are enough strengths in Best Men: The Bachelor Party to compensate for the cringe-worthy weaknesses that are peppered throughout. First, there's the direction of John Bruno and the videography of Brad Austin & Adam Killian. Bruno makes the most of the interesting story in spite of dealing with what seems like improvised dialog. A full script seems to be called for in a story-heavy movie like this but thankfully the talent actors among the cast (Matthew Rush especially) make up for those who are not so skilled at improv. It's not so easy to juggle strong actors & relatively weak actors but Bruno tries very hard. At times the videography is stunning thanks to the locale and the talents of the videographers to make the most of it.
The premise of Best Men: The Bachelor Party is simple. Tony Capucci plays a guy who is getting married to a guy he met on a cruise and his buddies take him to Vegas for a bachelor party weekend. Filmed on location at the Blue Moon Resort Tony and his buds played by Matthew Rush, Erik Rhodes, Roman Heart, Rod Daily, and Mason Alexander all have their own hot sexcapade--essentially it's the explicit gay version of the "what happens in Vegas...." TV commercial.

The exposition in the beginning sets up the rest of the story as well as serving as a red flag for problems in the film. Tony Capucci (unconvincing as a gay man in love) calls up Matthew Rush to tell him his news who in turn calls up Erik Rhodes to set up a Friday night bachelor party in Vegas. Rhodes makes the mistake of calling Roman Heart leaving him the task of calling and inviting Tony's sister's boyfriend (played by Zeb Atlas) whom none of the gang have met. The problem? Roman gets the day wrong and tell Zeb the party's on Saturday. Poor Roman. He's got the thankless role of dumb bunny and seems very disengaged to the role. In this initial scene and in his other sex scene Roman Heart acts like he's been boozing it up too much and destroyed some brain cells along the way. Either that or he has the flu because he doesn't even resemble the perky sex machine he's been in other films.
The premise that none of the guys has met Zeb before comes up right away in the next scene which takes place on the day after the party Matthew Rush goes down to the hotel hot tub where Zeb is already languishing. Not knowing their connection, Matthew tells Zeb (in flashback) about the previous night's shenanigans. The problem is that Matthew Rush wasn't around to witness or hear about the stories that he's going to relate to Zeb Atlas.
The sex vignettes all take place after a montage of clips relating the drunken revelry of the bachelor party.
In the first sex scene drunken Tony has passed out, but his buds are still in party mode--so they leave him behind in the rented room along with the stripper they hired. The sex tattooed stripper played by Shane Frost tells the guys he'll "take care" of Tony which he does in predictable fashion. If you like a little dirty talk with your sex, then you'll like this scene although the two guys force it a bit.

The rest of the party (save one) gets taken back to the hotel in a stretch Hummer (naturally) where they go their separate ways. Erik Rhodes sees a flyer invite and goes up to one of the rooms where a strip poker game is going on with Tristan Jaxx, Rusty Stevens, and Dylan Saunders. Erik Rhodes doesn't take much convincing to get involved in a poker-orgy but for us the main draw in this hot scene is sexy Rusty Stevens. Meanwhile Roman Heart is still in the limo and too plastered to get out so the chauffeur Nash Lawler joins him for a back seat romp. Again, we hope that Roman simply had the flu because his voice in this scene sounds like a longtime alcoholic and it's a little distracting to the otherwise sexy scene. After depositing drunken Matthew Rush in his room, buddies Rod Daily and Mason Alexander go downstairs to take advantage of the colorfully lit, waterfall decorated pool. There the two buds go from playful to sexual. It's a sensuously hot scene and it's a toss-up between the last scene as best of the movie.

And so ends Matthew Rush's flashbacks which have done the trick and turned on Zeb Atlas. The two get into some mutual muscle worship and trading blowjobs as well as the a little rimming on Rush's part (of course this is the infamous part that created post production drama). In spite of the drama, this is a hot, well done scene. As "gay for pay" acting goes Zeb is at least friendly and engaging. And Matthew Rush proves once again why he is a lifetime exclusive. Throughout the film he demonstrates the most natural acting style and as in most of his movies he doesn't hold back in his sex scenes. It's too bad that things didn't work out for the sequel. And yes as you know this is "to be continued" at the wedding party where no doubt the sex drives of the party goers will be out of control.

In general, except for Matthew Rush, the Falcon veterans let the newcomers steal the show. Obviously being newcomers these guys show a lot more enthusiasm for their roles. However it doesn't excuse the lack of enthusiasm on the parts of Rhodes & Heart. We know they have talent (otherwise they wouldn't have exclusive contracts and good salaries) but they give the impression that they don't even need to put out any effort. It would have served them well for future films if they hadn't blown this one off.













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