Twice as pointless as Magnolia and half as entertaining

Rating: 1/10 (26 January 2002)

Firstly, as an anti-drugs film this is flawed, because the characters come across as being generally dislikeable regardless. Secondly, instead of pier-pressure or anything like that, these people chose to become drug addicts.
Apart from the drug related messages in this film there's nothing of interest, there's no dialogue, no humour, nothing. This film is void of anything remotely intriguing.
Whether intentional or not: the TV show kept releasing more information throughout, but never completed itself. This alone made the film fall flat, because too much effort was put into a segment that was left unfinished and pointless. Unless there's some message about life being a TV show and dying early through drugs means you will never get to see the end (yes I'm reaching).
My point is this: with this type of anti-entertainment film the only point in watching it is the messages and guidance it may contain within, but this film doesn't contain anything. It's just a crap story about crap characters that the writer decided he wasn't going to end properly.
If you want an anti-drugs film that gets the message across far better, and actually is entertaining then check out Trainspotting. I get the impression from this film that this is an attempt at a `cleverer' Americanised remake, obviously the writer of Requiem For a Dream missed the point entirely.
Pure rubbish - 1/10