Ever wonder what would happen if someone were to genetically cross a twentysomething ensemble comedy-drama with a tense hostage thriller? It would likely turn out like Best Men, a strange yet oddly predictable film made in 1997 but only recently released on video. Directed by Tamra Davis (Guncrazy, Half-Baked), Best Men tells the story of five men (Sean Patrick Flanery, Luke Wilson, Dean Cain, Andy Dick, and Mitchell Whitfield) who come together to celebrate Wilson's release from prison and subsequent marriage to Drew Barrymore. Through a ridiculous series of events, however, the men end up taking a bank hostage, with each of the five allotted at least one ridiculously convoluted subplot. Cain, for example, is a gay former Green Beret wrestling with his sexuality, while Flanery, who bears an eerie resemblance to a young David Cassidy, is not only a Shakespeare-quoting bank robber, but also the son of the town's gruff sheriff (Fred Ward). It's all ridiculous and contrived, but it gets much stranger during Best Men's second half, as things get darker and darker leading up to a bizarre climax that seems inspired in equal parts by The A-Team, The Graduate, Riders In The Storm, and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. As a comedy, it's painfully unfunny, and as a drama, it's both silly and overcrowded with unnecessary characters and subplots. Still, Best Men has its moments, not the least of which involves Flanery giving a surprisingly touching rendition of Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy while commandeering a speeding bus. But it's still seldom more than a mess: strange and uncategorizable, but not very good, either.