Film-maker and rugby coach Matt Carter presents a heartbreaking story between two rugby players
Following a drunken encounter, two equally attached men from a cash-strapped and divided rugby club unwittingly sleepwalk into an adulterous affair but must conceal their growing feelings or risk destroying the club they love.
Geek Rate: Mortal Worthy (3 out of 5 stars). “In from the Side” offers plenty of rugby players with insanely good looks and muscular bodies in steamy sex scenes. But once you stepped back, is it good, though? It discusses the theme of commitment in a relationship but failed to dig deeper into it. A decent cinematography. Good performance from its actors (especially the supporting ones). Put it all together, this film is worth watching.
Film-maker and rugby coach Matt Carter gives the audience a Saturday night-worthy film to watch while sitting on a couch. It is relatable and full of love scenes that will make you giddy and guilty afterward.
British actor Alexander Lincoln plays Mark, a B-team rugby player who is in an open relationship with an absentee boyfriend. Lincoln is so good looking it is hard to focus on his lines sometimes. Coupled with another British actor with equally killer looks and body plus their accent, and boy you’re a goner. Alexander King plays Warren, an A-team player who is in a relationship with another rugby player on the same team. He will fall in love with Mark and then chaos will follow (after several steamy sex scenes).
If the story seems cheesy to you, well that’s because it is. “In from the Side” offers a simple plot: players falling in love with each other, rivalry within the team, and some financial woes. All the rugby players are good-looking with hot bodies (shout out to Christopher Sherwood who played their team captain) and amid the overlapping conflicts and drama, from there you’ll realize that the story is B-team level. There’s a funny moment when I wittingly predicted that it will flash three months later after the fallout between Mark and Warren. That’s how predictable the plot was at times.
The relationship between the two rests on murky ground. They both have shitty partners and that’s it? King as Warren was terrible; having said that, the chemistry between the King and Lincoln is undeniable. It helps to entice the audience to finish the entire film with the sex scenes and sexual tensions involved. The film tried to achieve decent cinematography which it did on some level but there are still cliché shots. The script failed to dig deep into the central theme of commitment in a relationship, ending in making this film just your average Hallmark-like story.
“In from the Side” is not groundbreaking, but offers some interesting insights on its central theme. Decent cinematography plus strong performances from its actors make this film worthy to watch.
You might hate the ending, partly because it’s not a cliché happily ever after. It reminds us that this film is not a love story but a story about family, not by blood, but by the one you chose.
Reignell Francisco
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