The freshness and utterly natural appeal of leads Michael Legge and Allen Leech is the highlight of this Irish production about the friendship of a gay and straight pair of roommates.Leech is an openly gay young man with ambitions to be a fashion designer who wants eventually to go to New York to fulfill those dreams. In that field it's either New York or Paris. The housing shortage in Dublin puts these two together and they had a past acquaintanceship from school.Poor Legge is a shy and socially clumsy kid who has a dull civil service job. Leech takes him in hand and gives him a Queer Eye makeover, but gets a lot more than he could imagine as Legge befriends a pair of drug dealers in the same building and gets Dublin law enforcement looking at him. Both of them get romantic attention from previous unthought of sources as well.In the end Leech is the one who provides a way out of difficulties for both of them.In a country with a rigid homophobic and Catholic tradition of which it has come to grips with Cowboys&Angels is a delightful film about the Irish gay scene. The leads give natural and sincere performances and for gay audiences and a few straight people I recommend this film.

I LOVE COWBOYS & ANGELS and the protagonist is very very beautiful actor and and an excellent actors! The history is actual in fact there are many young people in this situation. The movie can treat very good the themes presents on the movie: drugs, the friendship and many other.The movie have an excellent direction and excellent actors above protagonist. At the end of the movie win the friendship. That's good, a good friendship can help better more other solutions! Very good movies! The Italian title is "AMICI PER LA VITA" ,in English Amici Per la vita is FRIENDS FOR THE LIFE!So the Italien title resume the movie very well! I love COWBOYS & ANGELS AMICI PER LA VITA!

I popped the DVD into my PC just to see what this film looked and sounded like - and was immediately wrapped up in the visuals, the story and especially the sound. Even with a modest 5.1 speaker system I was amazed - it's hard to imagine a bigger or better experience in a cinema. Ninety minutes later I logged onto IMDb to sing its praises.I like that the script is very tight - yet allowing space for the characters to breathe. You can't help trying to second guess how they'll develop, because there's enough divergence to counter predictability - meaning that it all makes good reasonable sense and is very satisfying.The surround sound mix is just one of the attractions - and as well as being morally sound (very homo and hetero friendly) it's damned fine entertainment.

I'm somewhat suspicious of long winded raving reviews that make excessive reference to the actors or crew. It always makes me think that either the person worked on the film, or were asked to write the review as a favour.I have no connection to this film and I thought it was terrible. I felt nothing watching it. It was not engaging, nor was it ambitious. Normally one has a certain allowance for an amateur film like this, you tend forgive certain things due to budget reasons etc. and most of those type of films have a certain spirit or drive to them that you admire. Not here. This film is in love with itself, and I certainly found it to have no spirit or drive to it.I found the films concept of the OTT 'gay character', who will change the indifferent 'straight character' to be less of a square and more in touch with himself; to be unbelievably cliché and outdated. A gay friend of mine commented that he found the portrayal insulting, I can see his point.Some things that occurred to me: The direction is pedestrian at best and the lighting is bad. The film did nothing new, nor did it have the notion or spirit to try. The acting of the two main leads goes from OK to almost good, but everyone else is poor. The cartoon 'gangsters' are laughable, and for all the wrong reasons. Is this meant to be a 'real' setting or 'magical realism' for Limerick? I couldn't seem to grasp the tone.I'm tired of seeing 'join the dot' movies receive plaudits at "Festival Wherever", and rave 'favour reviews' by provincial critics. Really, how does something like this get funded? I really feel that if some filmmakers careers depended on putting bums on seats in a cinema, they would soon find themselves having to change jobs. This is just not good enough.