underrated, if you ask me

Rating: 9/10 (1 September 2007)

i can't help thinking how little i heard about this movie, while in the same time movies like Friday the 13th or American beauty are praised constantly. i'm not saying American beauty is a bad movie, undeserving of its status, or anything like that. it's just that this one is, in my opinion, right up there with a clockwork orange, maybe not exactly on the same level, but close enough.
what i really liked is the acting. absolutely perfect. not a lot else to say about it. the soundtrack fits the movie perfectly, and the image is also exceptional. the script also deserves a big thumbs up, hitting on issues that very few other movies dare tackle (perhaps a clockwork orange, and fight club, and a very few others). this might sound a bit like i'm trying to sell this movie, and i'm not, i just find it very hard to find serious flaws in it. it has little holes here and there, like most other movies that i saw, but all in all an extraordinary piece of cinematography.
that being said, i gave it a 9 (because of some very minor problems i had with it's suspension of belief) and i highly recommend it.
sorry for whatever English mistakes i might have made, English is not my primary language.