The Emperor Has no Clothes

Rating: 1/10 (2 December 2010)

The fact that this movie is getting so may good reviews speaks to the dumbing down of the movie-going public.
First of all - as someone with experience with the dance world, let's set the record straight - Natalie Portman may have tried hard, but she is strictly an amateur dancer. If you know dance she is simply unbelievable as a prima ballerina.
More importantly - the combination of genres Aronofsky tries here doe not work. Its not a dance movie, not Rosemary's Baby, not a Vampire movie - some strange and unconvincing combination...
I saw the film at the Hamptons Film Festival - if I hadn't been trapped at the end of a row I would have walked out. My neighbors on both side - strangers to me - shared my opinion.
The wave of good reviews this movie is getting is totally unwarranted - people perhaps swayed by the pretentiousness of the film ,and reviews, who don't won't to buck the current. But this emperor has no clothes - stay away!