I felt like Pinnochio

Rating: Null/10 (17 April 2001)

Sensationalist direction, MTV-editing, suffocating room for character development, unrelentless juxtaposition, over-produced. Darren Aronofsky is that new breed of director who patronises his audience, feeling the need to underline scenes with a pounding soundtrack and extreme shoots. Which is a shame considering when the camera decides to stay on the actors for long enough, they really do shine. A letterbox-view of the drug culture, shown up against the spectrum of 'Traffic', this film is dated. I felt like a puppet by the end of the film, Aronofsky deciding how the audience should feel, which builds up to an un-watchable final twenty minutes. Predictable. An awful film.