What a waste. One of the worst films I've ever seen.

Rating: 2/10 (23 June 2007)

I was absolutely astonished to discover that others had rated this movie a 7.5. I found it to be one of the worst, most boring films I've ever watched - and I've seen a lot. I was expecting an average rating of around 3.
I suppose it's because it's different. Well, it's certainly that. But not every film that's made in black in white, has disturbing images, and goes through demented sequences that make no freaking sense is "brilliant" - although a lot of people obviously disagree with me.
Maybe my first clue should've been the opening credits, which rolled a sequence supposedly of the number pi. As someone well acquainted with mathematics, the very first thing I noticed was that the number they put on the screen was an accurate representation out to the first 8 digits. After that it was just a stream of completely random numbers.
"Well," I said to myself, "They had to know very, very few people would ever notice." Still, it was a bit irritating. It can't be that hard to come up with a few more than 8 digits of the value of pi, especially when you're spending the money to make an entire movie.
Sadly, things only went downhill from there.
And incidentally, the movie turned out not to have not ANYTHING to do with pi at all! As near as I can tell, the pi bits were only thrown in for their marketing value. The story is all to do with some other number.
The best thing that "Pi" has going for it (really, the ONLY thing) is the music. The rest is just black-and-white-filmed ravings, repetitive shots of the main character shaking and downing pills, repetitive script (how many times do we get told the same thing in the exact same words?), repetitive freak-out episodes, and long shots of nothing in particular. Blurry scenery.
The movie was so **** boring that after watching it for as long as I could possibly stand (the first hour), hoping, hoping, HOPING that it would get better, I finally started skipping ahead, pausing for the parts that looked like they might actually contain some content. There were relatively few of these.
As far as I can recall, this is the only movie I've ever seen that at 84 minutes was WAY too long. It just seemed like the **** thing would never end.
Perfect example of movie hell: Nothing ever happens, and the movie has no ending. Instead it just goes on forever.
If you enjoy being beaten for hours on end with decaying sturgeons, or if you think a bogus-science movie filmed in blurry black and white in which the main character is demented must AUTOMATICALLY be cool, then there's a chance you might like this movie. Otherwise, I'd go for something with more entertainment value.
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