Truly awful!

Rating: 1/10 (10 December 2006)

One reviewer said it might take you where you don't want to go --- so why go there? This kind of chaotic descent is unpleasant without being interesting.
The premise (flight of Icarus, exaggerated over-reaching, tower of Babel) is sophomoric and unsubtle. One of many goofs: at the beginning, where Max lists the drugs he's doing, he says "HCI" instead of HCL. This term is written in chemical nomenclature with the L in lower case, but Aronofsky, not knowing anything about chemistry, thinks it's an "I". Since all the chemical names Max mentions are complicated and technical and are presented as authoritative (words from a genius??????????????) the error stands way out.
It's amazing to me that over 27000 IMDb folks have reviewed this film with a 7.5 average rating. Really amazing. We've gone way off the tracks here.
Don't waste your time, unless you groove on (many) scenes of a man writhing, holding his head in agony, and injecting himself in various places. Did I mention the amateur lobotomy?