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Although "Leather Jacket Love Story," leaves a great deal to be desire, namely, a story, it accomplishes its homoerotic purpose. I cannot be- lieve the director had any other intention. Christopher Bradley is a James Brolin look-alike and radiates both charm and sensuality but the writers give him no depth of character. The same can be said of everyone else in the movie. Above all, there is no crisis moment to purge the lethally mundane moments throughout. I agree that the best moments are between Mike and Sam, witlessly portrayed as S&M Construction. The young boy who moves to Silverlake should have stayed away. Even so, when all is said and done, it serves as soft porn effectively enough.

Lord spare us another film like this one
I had a bizarre movie-viewing experience lately and rented this DVD on the day after I rented "Jackass"; I greatly preferred "Jackass." "Leather Jacket Love Story" is yet another tiresome entry in a long line of recent gay-themed films (within the past 13 years or so) that do not show any promise in the world of what one charmingly calls "Queer Cinema."

As somebody else has noted in a previous review, I think that one of the film's main problems is that the lead actor, Sean Tataryn, with his "Herbie the elf dentist" hair, is really not a very attractive kid and in reality, certainly would not command the attention he gets in the film; he is what I'd call "charisma free." This central casting mistake really weighs the film down. It's hard to see that so many men would grab Tataryn when he would walk into a room and try to engage his attention. This is most notable and flawed in the bath house scene. Tataryn's acting isn't much to go on either.

Christopher Bradley as the older more worldly (and truly handsome) man tries to rise above the material, but with such bad dialogue, cliched situations and the use of full frontal nudity to mask the films flaws, it all just goes over like a lead balloon. I think a very interesting and touching film could have been made out of the relationship between Mike (Bradley) and Sam (the too good for this film Hector Mercado). The chemistry between the 2 of them seems very genuine and generates the only real warmth in the film. Instead, we are treated the beginnings of a co-dependent relationship.

Some of the more noticeable problems in the film: the grainy black-and-white photography, the use of silly 50's sitcom type music during a pivotal love scene (I have never witnessed a love scene so trite before), the overused drag queens who, in the end, really don't seem to serve any point, and any number of the bland, smiling extras who walk around with vacuous looks on their faces. Special mention goes to the ridiculous exchange between Tataryn and the sleazebag stripper who discusses his love for painting a certain type of his anatomy. This is one of the silliest, forced conversations in a film full of them.

Rent this if you must, but this is not a film to waste your money on. The extras on this DVD are just prolonged scenes of male nudity and sex, with no real deleted scenes that would shed any more light on the film.