Over hyped film is a mess of horror movie and drama conventions over done and badly put together.

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2011)

Young dancer is given the chance to dance in Swan Lake and pushed by pressures of her life and of the production she goes off the deep end.
A ballet movie made almost entirely of close-ups of Natalie Portman's face. I know we are suppose to be getting into the characters mind but this is ridiculous. Its all face and feet and little else.Why you would cast some one to be a dancer and then never show her dance is one of the great mysteries that are presented by this film.
Actually there is much about that this film that eludes me, mostly doing as to why the film is receiving the acclaim it has when it's so deliberate and artificial that one can never connect with it. Nominally a psychological drama with slips into to horror the films horrific elements are obvious and so over done that even the most hackneyed of horror directors would not have used all of the tropes this way (from over done music to doublings to any number of other things). The film is a mess.
I've seen it twice now and I still don't get what people are seeing in it.