What a disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (3 July 2011)

The two stars go Natalie Portman and only Natalie Portman. Have to give her credit for all the hard work she put into this movie. It's a shame the director completely misused her talent.
This movie so one-dimensional, it's not even funny, just cliché after cliché. By the time the movie starts, Natalie Portman's character is a timid and fragile girl that's already insane. And throughout the movie all it does is get worse. There's no substance to the character at all. She has the same "I'm about to cry" expression on her face throughout the entire movie, which literally makes you hate the character. At first I wanted her to snap out of it, but after about 30 minutes, it was clear that wasn't going to happen, and soon adopted the attitude of "Whatever, this girl is super obnoxious, I bet she slits her wrists at the end"...And sure enough, not her wrists but close.
And OK, so this weak and fragile girl walks up to the director while in his office and says, I've come to ask for the part. He kisses her, she bites him and poof, she gets the part...Really? is that how it's done? The whole metaphor of Nina being the white swan at the beginning of the movie, but then turns out to be the black swan at the end was ridiculous to say the least. The white swan is supposed to resemble a virtuous, yet delicate lady, afraid of being seductive. But Nina was dark and crazy from the beginning.
I was really excited to see this movie because I thought it was going to be about a women who worked really hard to get the part of a lifetime. It sadly wasn't about that at all. It was about a crazy girl who happened to be dancer. I was hoping to see beautiful dancing and never once did I see any.
Safe yourself the time and don't see this move...