Wow! Such a good movie.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This is simply one of the best movies I've ever seen about the AIDS crisis. Moving, tough and beautiful all at the same time... 100% recommended.

The cast and crew no doubt, found this a difficult movie to make. Being barely a teenager in the early - mid 80's, this movie pushed a lot of buttons for me. The tragedy, the fear, the advertisements on TV, the statistics and newspapers kept me firmly in the closet and firmly and completely non sexual. I understand the sexual scenes were required and the promiscuity were factual and needed to be shown, I did find it an extremely confronting movie but, I couldn't recommend it to anyone more. It's one of the must see movies of the 21st century.

It is impossible to depict a historical event like this, where homosexuals rights where so ignored, in a more balanced view. No guilt can be divided. We know that society did not live up to it's responsibility and reacted too slowly as the virus spread and that this showed an underlying aversion against gay people. Many died an unnecessary and painful death.Ned (Mark Ruffalo) fights his cause against AIDS and in doing so is confronted with one idiot after another throughout two whole hours. He does so screaming, shouting, crying and begging to a point where I lost my interest. Representants from the government etc. are stereotyped big clowns and fifteen minutes into the movie you have figured this out. There are those that don't have the guts to fight, those who are indifferent and those who think that gay people are getting what they deserve.Don't get me wrong. My sympathy is undivided but I would have loved to become more challenged or shown some aspects of this period that I didn't know of watching the movie.To spice the story up you have the tragic love story and a heroic Julia Roberts in a wheelchair fighting side by side with our minority group./Simon

The privileged may see this story as a triumph, but for the the poor, minorities and such, it's nearly completely inaccessible. The roles include the powerful, or at least are connected to the powerful. They are upwardly mobile, or they are overachievers. In any case, the gay characters' primary sorrows are medical. Gather a group of white heterosexuals debating vulnerability to, say, any venereal disease and you have an analogue to this movie. While the performances are compelling (with myopic social relevance) they refuse to engage the complexities of those who are excluded because of education, economic, or racial difference.. There is none of the cultural communication awkwardness that freights and slows conversations when classes interact. Would this movie have even been produced before 2020 if the players were African American, Latino, or white underclass? Perhaps, but only at a small-budget independent film level.