You Can Tell This Guy Went to Film School

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2001)

This would have made a fairly interesting 45 min school film, but the problem is that while Aronofsky (sp?) has a great premise, he has no idea how to follow up on it. Far too much time is spent wowing the audience with "that great shot" - which any film school professor will tell you is an obstructive sin - and vapid, rollercoaster editing. And the ending, were Max gives himself a lobotomy, is such a copout and an obvious slip, revealing to everyone that he has no idea how to end this movie. Not awful, but certainly needlessly pretentious.