An OK movie, with a great ending

Rating: 7/10 (17 November 2003)

To be honest, Requiem for a Dream is not a great movie. Especially in the beginning it is very weird at times and one cannot really say that it is exciting or entertaining. What one can say with certainty though, is that it is at all times interesting and that it remains above mediocrity at all times. The sad thing about this film is, that the distortions our addict friends' go through, do not always work in the films pace and sometimes they do the film more wrong than right. What makes this otherwise only' OK movie, worth watching in the end though, is a great and disturbing finale, which will make you remember this film for a long time after you have seen it. In the case of Requiem for a Dream, the ending definitely made the film, which as a whole might be an interesting character study for some and possibly great prevention for anyone who thinks about taking drugs. If you like these kind of films I can recommend Bully and Irreversible to you, which I thought were both better than this one. But then again, you could also try Memento, which is even more over-rated on IMDB, than this film. Requiem for gets a Dream 8,5 out of 10 ranking at # 46 and Memento gets a 8,7 ranking at # 14 in the IMDB top 250. My guess is that these two films are that high in the top 250, because the ending of a film, is the last thing you see and the endings of those films really stick around in your head and in Requiem's case it is really a top notch ending. But people, let us NOT forget that the rest wasn't too great and that a great ending alone does not make a great film.

7,5 out of 10

post scriptum: due to the fact that this film was just OK for most of it's part, upon voting this film will get a 7 out of 10 by me