McConaughey and Leto both give tremendous performances in this story about the early days of AIDS and how a homophobic straight man and a cross dressing gay men, team up to help get drugs to those who need them.
Gritty and at times depressingly realistic, the film doesn't really stray to far from where you can see it's going, but that's ok. At times Jennifer Garner seems a little out of place but what can ya do, it's Hollywood.
There is at times, a sort of weird fluctuation between biopic and straight ahead fiction, but the performances from the leads help overcome that.
A film that would have served McConaughey better if it had given him a little more focus pre aids, he and Leto still manage to transcend whatever flaws the script has in that regard and makes this a pretty beautiful film, seeped in the ugliness of the early days of the aids epidemic.
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