A disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (6 March 2002)

Filmed in beautiful black and white "Pi" is the story of a mathematical genius, Max Cohen, who believes that numbers form the basis of the entire world and all its components. While developing a program which can accurately predict movements on the stock exchange he becomes distracted by, and ultimately obsessed with, the concept of pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Thanks to director Darren Aronofsky,"Pi" becomes the "Traffic" of independent films, a potentially brilliant film marred by pretentious direction.