Brick (2006)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Purely Joyful Movie!

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

My main grudge with this movie was the dialogues and language used. I had the subtitles on and and it was still difficult to grasp the proceedings because of the jargon and the complicated plot. Users who rated this movie highly used the word 'noir' to describe it. I am just an average movie goer and not some critic. So, that went over my head. Some of the characters (The Pin, especially and The Brain) were too flimsy. The suspense is barely gripping. Wouldn't recommend it.

So this film does well to hold up for about an hour with its plot, but all hell seems to break lose towards the end. The film does little to no effort to render its dialogue clear enough for what is a very convoluted narrative. It's the sort of story that takes focusing just reading on paper, let alone on the screen when the lines are being delivered in real time with absolutely no attempt to space themselves.This is one of the ones that tries to be complex, but just turns out complicated; tries to be clever but feels way too self-satisfied and, just, muffled. Not that a film needs to be completely obvious, but this surely is the other extreme. It takes every ounce of focus to get what's happening from scene to scene, who does what to who and why and who did what when, and the final chapter is just a concentrated dose of that and feels quite exhausting...for a small reward. Frustrating watch. Too bad, they really had something to work with.

Since I saw Brick is has raised to the first position of my list of film noir films. I have liked a lot the film although there have been parts that I haven't understood.This film shows the structure of the film noir because is has a lot of characteristics. For example they don't show happiness in all the movie they are a lot's of scene which are urban and dark, i this film they give lot of importance to the cigarette that in film noir is a really big characteristic. When you see this film you are really integrated and make you think a lot to know who has kill Em (protagonist) . I think that every body can like this film because is a film noir but modern. I have liked the film a lot but there was some scene that I didn't understood.

"Review for Brick"Brick it's a movie which releases the classic film noir, without some classics features like detectives, tobaccos and hats, but with codes, language, active narrator, filming angles, the dark interiors, the shutters and the visual characteristics. The main character, a cunning young college student, but who goes unnoticed as the hero trying to unravel the mystery surrounding Emily's disappearance.This movie is about a lonely teenager who investigates the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend Emily, who has recently joined a more popular and also more dangerous group. With the help of Brain, Brendan's investigation takes him to a group of drug traffickers led by The Pin. And the one who first appeared to be more of a brownie, turns out to be a fierce and determined hero, who takes advantage of the strengths and weaknesses of each one to achieve their attempts.Although this film has a stylized dialog it does not distract the public, because is a very easy and don't have to keep the public away, so I liked the film because, the story is very good and the way the authors managed to mix a teenage scene with the classic style of film noir was very good.