Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

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Rated X (2000) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Filmmakers Artie and Jim Mitchell (Charlie Sheen/Emilio Estevez) find fame with Behind the Green Door, one of the few porn titles to hit the mainstream. The first half dealing with the porn business in the early 70's is very interesting but sadly the second half of the film goes downhill as we see the two men fall from grace. Estevez directs very nicely but we've seen this countless times and nothing new is really done here. Sheen gives the performance of his career and Estevez the actor does a nice job as well.

This film is Based on a True Story about the rise and fall of the porn filmmakers:The Mitchell Brothers (Played by Charlie Sheen & Emilio Estevez). The Mitchell Brothers made a famous porn film titled "Behind the Green Door". Once they become successful, they have to go through the American government, the mob, the woman's in their lives and even each other to create a San Francisco Porn Dynasty but the drugs and their intense relationship puts them apart.Directed by Emilio Estevez (Men at Work, The War at Home, Wisdom) made a terrific if wildly uneven drama that, it was never release in theaters. Instend it got debuted in showtime entertainment network.DVD has an bright Pan & Scan (1.33:1) transfer and an fine-Dolby Surround 2.0 Sound. DVD has an surprisingly amusing commentary tack by real-life brothers:Sheen and Estevez.The french Canadian DVD has an sharp non-anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) transfer and an good-Dolby Stereo 2.0 Sound. This DVD is only in french with no subtitles.This is an unfocused but extremely well made film. Watch for film director:Peter Bogdanovich appears in a cameo as a film school professor. A must see for the performances by Sheen & Estevez. (****/*****).

The Mitchell brother's story is made for the movies. It has everything that would make a intriguing film: sibling rivalry, rags to riches story, excess, madness, skin etc, etc. So what went wrong? Take two brothers who shouldn't be in this business to begin with, The Sheens. Emilio Estevez tries to do a P.T Anderson and fails miserably. We know that the Sheens' acting abilities are feeble, but putting one of them behind the camera and both of them in front just screams out disaster. In addition it doesn't help that Meredith's screenplay is well below par. But just take one look at the writer's other work and you'll get the notion. As mentioned this story had all the potential in the world to become a great film, but put someone with a name and no talent behind it and the result is hideous. Do yourself a favor and don't watch this movie.

Despite the real interesting story which I advice to read from the book (this movie doesn't make a good portrait of it) the direction of the film was horrible. Was necessary to move around the camera so much? Like the worst MTV video. Just because there wasn't much of happening the director thought that is the way to entertain an audience. Don't think so. Often the movie was incredible boring. The acting, specially regarding Sheen, was terrible. I don't reccomend this movie. Choose instead "Boogie Night", which has a very good professional direction and better, much better acting. I wonder if someone could get a compensation for have bought the film on DVD (that's me!)