THE DRUGS DON'T quite WORK

Rating: 5/10 (25 January 2001)

Not quite up to the standards of the phenomenal "Pi", my personal best of 1999; but still an impressive film from one of the best young directors around.
It's a powerful tale, that reaches a terrifying climax. Ultimately though, the drug film is one of the most formalised genres. This film doesn't quite escape it, in the way "Drugstore Cowboy" did for instance.

The score matches "Pi", and surely Aronofsky must have been a dj in some form or another.