Psychosis and brain-damaged anarchy

Rating: 4/10 (10 February 2007)

I like Brad Pitt. I really like Edward Norton. But (without all the !!!'s) I have to agree with a previous poster: what a waste! This film tries to wrap something romantic around some pretty pointless destructive, and self-destructive behaviour. It then tries a cop-out ending by ... nope, that would be a spoiler, wouldn't it? It's cinematically interesting in places, in the course of exploring "How low can you go?". But this film is clearly written with a message: a subtle advocacy of just going blam random, that makes me grieve.
If you've given up on anything positive in life, and figure injuring yourself is less boring, then you may see more in this film than I do. Any action film will skip past the real likely outcomes of getting smashed in the head over and over again. This film tries to suggest there's a higher principle, while throwing reality out the window ... and then wets itself because there's no place to go.