Lamest movie ever

Rating: 4/10 (11 June 2015)

I decided to hunt down a copy of this movie after reading the rave reviews on this website. When other users rank the movie 9/10 or 10/10 and give their review titles like "Brutal, honest, and a must see movie", "Disturbing, Graphic and Great" and "Like being repeatedly punched in the back of the head by Mike Tyson" (sic) it certainly gets your attention. Naturally, having read such rave reviews I expected a great movie.
I was wrong. Very, very wrong.
I thought that I had found the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" of drug movies but instead I had found a movie with average to sub-par acting and a plot which contains every cliché from the genre. The only things commendable about this title are the soundtrack and the directing, and to be entirely honest, this isn't even director Darren Aronofsky's best work.
*****SPOILER BELOW!!*******
The film follows the exploits of three dumb kids (a white guy, a white girl and a token black guy) as well as a vain and insecure woman. The three dumb kids, who have no brains and less virtue, decide to make some quick and easy money by pushing illegal drugs onto their local community. One day, the token black in the group encourages them to 'sample' the product and they all become addicted to heroin. At this time, the vain and insecure woman, in a separate story arc, decides to opt-out of a rigorous weight loss program by taking addictive weight loss pills instead. The movie is a bit vague but I expect that she is taking some sort of methamphetamine, which were once marketed in the west as a weight loss product.
To cut a very, very long story short, the white guy contracts gangrene from dirty needles and loses his left arm. The white girl decides to whore herself out for drug money and, finding that the money is insufficient, starts doing live sex shows instead. The black guy ends up in jail (bet you didn't see that coming) and the vain and insecure older woman lands up in an Asylum after the methamphetamine's rewire her brain.
Now that's a ground-breaking, creative and interesting plot right? Right??? I didn't think so either.
So why did the other reviewers give this movie such wild reviews? Now that, kind sir, is a damn good question. My only explanations are that either I am extremely insensitive to the shock value of these sorts of movies or the other reviewers have grown up and live in pillow-walled hug boxes. My money is on the latter option.
I give this film a 4/10 ranking because of its soundtrack and directing and believe me, I am being extremely generous.
This film is worth seeing if you are interested in directing from a technical standpoint as the director has a very unique and interesting style. As an entertainment product - don't bother. Save yourself an hour and a half and watch something else.