Hahahahahaha.....Wahahahahaha.....Poo

Rating: 4/10 (16 June 2005)

What would have happened if Trainspotting had been directed by David Lynch? The result would have looked spookily like Requiem for a Dream. Come on people, buck up your ideas (of what a good film is), same goes for all the trashy MTV directors out there force feeding us this junk. this ranks up there with Pulp Fiction as the most meaningless, overrated film EVER, this is just the LAST straw! Another music video adapted into a film, how many fancy visual tricks and stupid 'trippy' scenes do you want in one film? Well Requiem has more than you could ever wish for - split screen (done to death better on UK television dramas), computer altered dilating eyes, a snappy 'shoot up' sequence that is used about 50 times, imaginary food falling from the ceiling, fridges that want to come and eat you and hundreds more, it's all so much fun you might wet your pants in elation. Who needs David Lynch and Fincher, this film has more weird s**t than they can ever hope to provide in a single picture.
If you want a film about drug addiction and it's effects you have Trainspotting, it may not be flashy but it does the job better than this pile because it has a decent story, some character, half decent acting, wit and realism, RfaD lacks all of the afore mentioned qualities. By far the worst, most annoying feature of the film though is the sound track. It's just the same track over and over with the tacky strings section at the beginning and end, boooooring! Also just as predictable and bland is the story, the writer should have taken the same stuff as the director, maybe then he would have thought up some interesting plot developments and characters. The only character who was any fun was Sara while she was tripping out and dancing about like a loony. As for the rest of them, well I was rooting for them to all OD and get off the bloody screen! What a bunch of sappy losers, maybe if their dreams and emotions were illustrated better at the start I would care, but they start chewing scenery and getting high far too quickly and they are then promptly thrown about in the wacky world of the directors twisted vision like so much vomit getting flushed down the pan. Boring, shallow, seen it all before. NEXT!