Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2004 Page: 30 of 64
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Comedy-thrilier about lovesick pup and
hot-blooded hunk never takes off
By Steve Warren Contributing Film Critic
At last, a movie dares to ask the question: How
can you mend a broken heart with a machete?
Have you ever been in an airplane that sat on
the tarmac and taxied the runways for hours but
never left the ground? "Testosterone" is like that.
It teases us with its potential for mystery and
comedy while resembling nothing so much as a
lead condom.
Director David Moreton, who did such a good
job on "The Edge of Seventeen," adapted
"Testosterone" {with Dennis Hensley) from a
novel by James Robert Baker, perhaps because
he identified with the protagonist, an obsessive
romantic.
Dean Seagrave (David Sutcliffe) draws graph-
ic novels, which explains the illustrations behind
the opening credits. They represent the 10-month
relationship between Dean and Pablo Alessandro
(Antonio Sabato Jr.), an Argentinean in Los
Angeles.
One day Pablo goes out for ciga-
rettes and never returns. Dean tries
to quit smoking but needs closure
with Pablo to get past his writer's
block. He flies to Buenos Aires in
search of Pablo and starts acting
like an action hero when he's not
being depressed and depressing.
At first, Dean is a typical "ugly American,"
saying things like "No hablo Spanish." You'd
think he would have picked up more than that in
nearly a year with Pablo, not to mention a life-
time in Southern California.
He tries to talk to Pablo's mother (Sonia
Braga), who is no friendlier to him in B.A. than
she was in L.A. She calls the police when he
comes to her house and later hires thugs to dis-
courage him. He takes a cop's gun away, outruns
one pair of thugs and gets the drop on another.
Dean finds two potential allies who turn out to
be brother and sister with their own connections
to Pablo. Sofia (Celina Font) is a waitress in a
cafe across the street from Pablo's mother's
house. Marcos (Leonardo Brzezicki) was Pablo's
lover for two-and-a-half years when they were
boys. Now he seems to want to take Pablo's
place in Dean's life.
For a time, the sexual tension between Dean
and Marcos is the film's most interesting aspect,
outweighing the various mysteries surrounding
Pablo. But it's undercut by the question of why
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CAUGHT IN THE ACT: Marcos (Brzezicki, right) flexes his
stud muscles by picking up a cute bellhop (Dario Dukah).
anyone would be drawn to Dean, the way he
behaves. "I'm not an asshole," he tells Sofia.
"I'm just heartbroken, and I need some help."
He can turn on the charm for
a few seconds at a time, but
mostly he's sullen when he's
not totally hostile. This may be
what romantics act like in real
life (and may explain why so
many of them are alone) but it
doesn't make them sympathetic
heroes in movies.
As bad as Dean is, don't think for a moment he
can't get worse. He decides the only relief for
him is to kill Pablo, and he buys a machete at "the
Argentine version of Home Depot." The film
gets crazier, if that's possible, but it never
becomes credible enough to engage our interest.
Sutcliffe, a Greg Kinnear type, does what's
required of him. Sabato does more posing than
acting — well, trying to act — and shows he may
be nearing his sell-by date as a model.
Jennifer Coolidge adds some welcome humor
as Dean's agent. She's allowed to look relatively
glamorous for a change, instead of being a car-
toon. Font, Brzezicki (who is hot) and Braga do
the best with what they've got to work with.
Davenia McFadden appears in a 10-second non
sequitur that suggests she may have had a role
that was cut.
Being gay is a given, not an issue, except with-
in Pablo's rich, powerful political family. They
represent the mystery of Argentina that Robert
Duvall failed to capture in "Assassination
Tango" and Moreton fails to capture here.
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