High Fidelity, is an outrageous comedy that presents life, love, and job, of Rob Gordon, a self-destructive list-maker, dealing with all three.

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2008)

"What came first, music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns. Or watching violent videos and that some sort of cultural violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable or was I miserable because I listened to pop music."
From the opening words, High Fidelity will make you laugh and fall in love with it. John Cusack's best movie to date. While watching the movie, you'd never know that he wrote some of the screenplay and was a music supervisor for the movie- two very big accomplishments since the movie is so great for its sharp and endearing comedic aspects and the music that lies beneath them.
With artists ranging from The Chemical Brothers to The Vaselines, High Fedelity easily has one of the year's, and perhaps the century's, greatest soundtracks. The music knowledge displayed by both the people who pick the songs and the characters who exhibit them will make you feel so musically inadequate that you want to go out and by every record mentioned (even the Peter Frampton).
Besides it hilarious and precise writing, courtesy of Nick Hornby, High Fidelity offers a look into the inner workings of the male mind-- with everything from crappy-yet-not-crappy jobs, life-styles, list-making habits, and self-destructive love lives. Rob's love life provides the heart of the movie (letting old loves die and growing up), while his job provides his hilarity (with Barry, portrayed by Jack Black, and Dick), and his list-making seamlessly ties the whole thing together.
All together, the movie is nearly flawless, musically brilliant, and a work of art. Many call me crazy for loving it so much, but this movie will give you chills (even when Jack Black sings "Let's Get it On").