Good dancing, awful script

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2011)

This film looks like it was made by two directors - one for the aesthetically pleasing dance sequences, another for the atrocious script and weak plot. Credit to Natalie Portman for obviously putting a lot of effort into learning ballet. Also to Vincent Cassel for his portrayal of the dance teacher. Masturbation scenes and lesbian sex however aren't a sufficient replacement for realistic dialogue. They didn't convince me that this would be enough to make Nina "let go" and produce the perfect Black Swan performance. If this really is the best that Hollywood has to offer this year, then the U.S. film industry must have gone downhill really fast.