Best F(r)iends - Film Review
Plot
Jon (Greg Sestero), a homeless man, is living on the street until he is taken in by a mysterious mortician named Harvey (Tommy Wiseau) an they become business partners. However, both men are forced to learn about friendship and loyalty, which is where the title comes in.
Review
If you read the reviews I did of The Room and The Disaster Artist, you'd know that I'm a fan of both of those movies so naturally I was excited for this.
Whether you like it depends on who you are. If you're a fan of The Room, you will probably like this, if not, then it's probably not worth your time.
I don't want to go into too many spoilers in case you haven't seen it.
I actually do understand the title for this movie, because it starts off with Jon and Harvey becoming friends and later becoming fiends, because if you take the (r) out of the title, you get Best Fiends.
Don't go into this movie expecting something you can just laugh out loud at like The Room, where it's so bad that it's good, Best F(r)iends is so good that it's good. Don't read that first part and think it isn't funny, it is, but the movie is good.
There are several nods to The Room, and without going into too much spoilers, I'll mention some of them. There's a scene where Jon and Harvey are throwing a basketball around, and there's one where Harvey says "Oh hai Jon!" I'm sure there's more, but those are the two I could really think of.
There was a concept trailer released in 2016 and none of the stuff in that trailer was used in the final version.
There's actually going to be two parts to this, as this ends on a cliffhanger and says "Volume One". We're getting Volume Two in June so I'll probably see that.
Let's talk about the characters. Harvey is actually played pretty well by Tommy Wiseau, because this kind of character is the kind that Tommy could play. In The Room, Tommy wrote Johnny to be a regular person, but seeing how Tommy is the opposite of a regular person, he fits this role quite well. I heard that Greg Sestero wrote this after seeing a rough cut of The Disaster Artist and felt sympathetic for Tommy and decided to write a role he knew he could play.
In one scene, I think they make a reference to how people say Tommy is an alien, as Jon's girlfriend asks him where he's from and he says he's from Planet Earth.
Harvey runs a mortuary where he removes gold teeth from corpses and makes masks out of their faces, and in his mortuary he has pictures of dead celebrities like Jim Morrison and Sharon Tate framed in there.
Greg Sestero is good as Jon, a homeless man who is taken in by Harvey and falls in love with a bartender. He forms a business partnership wit Harvey and gets rich over it, but eventually they become best fiends.
Kristen Stephenson Pino is ok as Traci, Jon's girlfriend, but there isn't much to her.
Also, Paul Scheer from The Disaster Artist makes an appearance in this movie, and that was nice to see.
Overall, I thought Best F(r)iends is a really good movie and and improvement over The Room,but I don't know if it'll be as classic as The Room. If you are a fan of The Room, you should watch this, if not, than don't bother.
Best F(r)iends gets a 9/10.
Also, I'll try not to leave you in the dark for most of April, as I'll be pretty busy with reviews that month.
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