'Who knows where thoughts come from'

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2001)

The first time I watched Empire Records, I pressed the rewind button as soon as it finished, and watched the whole thing again, just to let it sink in that I had found a film that I really, really enjoyed.
Empire Records was not a film made to win Oscars, that is not the point of it. What Empire Records succeedes in doing is taking a day in the life of a place that all teenagers can relate to (A music shop), taking a cast of gorgeous, hip young things, playing a brilliant soundtrack throughout, and chucking in some quotes that you can go over again, and again with your friends (me and my friend's personal favourite is Joe and Lucas' 'where's the money gone' conversation, that is as funny now as it was all those many viwings ago).
Anybody who disregards Empire Records as a badly-acted, unrealistic film with a weak story-line, and cliched characters are missing the point entirely. Empire Records is one of those films that you can watch again and again, simply because we know life will never be like that, but hey, it's good fun watching it all the same.