Odd, not exactly enjoyable, but interesting.

Rating: 8/10 (22 May 1999)

Pi is an extremely odd movie. I considered it the equivalent of reading Neuromancer by William Gibson: it's only enjoyable if you resign yourself to the fact that you probably won't understand most of what's going on. Pi is about a lot of things, really; it's about a mad but brilliant mathematician trying to discover the secret of the number, it's about a group of religious Jews trying to find the secret to communicating with God, and it's about teetering on the brink of insanity. It's well worth renting and sitting through, despite the fact that it's barely understandable, although it's not the type of film that you want to watch twice.