Maybe Works for 13-18 Year Olds under influence of.....

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2011)

The first 5 minutes of the film, is maybe the film itself, and maybe the reason to pay the money and go see this movie....maybe not.
This film has no artistic value as compared to '300', so fans of Snyder going to see this because of '300' masterpiece. don't go, it is not.
The film probably can be appreciated by teenagers under the influences of various substances, because that is probably the only way, the only correct way to appreciate this film to some degree. Probably comparison to movie 'speed racer' can or should be made.
Acting does not exist in this film, special effects are poorly done as well as the soundtrack to them, and in general almost all of the scenes are absolutely pointless and tedious. Again for teenagers maybe they are less tedious, hard to tell.
The core of the film is the message that Snyder tries to express. This message is obvious and understandable if you looking at this movie from the right perspective. The problem is that I don't know if the kids will understand this message or if this message was openly conveyed to them.
The 'grandiose' "plot within a plot" is that he describes a Strip Club and the inner workings of it, the psychology and the circumstances of the girls who are trapped in this lifestyle. He describes girls, who had bad parents or were abused and ran away from home, and the only way to support themselves became a money making machine of Strip Clubs, then he describes all the internal struggles and hell that many girls are internally dealing with while pursuing this profession. Then, he describes the coping mechanisms to this torture, as for girls to resort to various substance helpers for them to escape their reality or to distort it, and finally the ultimate coping mechanism is to totally stop caring, detach yourself from the horrible reality, and to become a so to speak "living zombie", a living dead, a mental suicide of sorts,"self-lobotomy", the body is alive but the "soul" is dead.
Snyder's point at the end is that this is not the way to go, there are other ways to deal with harsh life realities, find a map(goal in life), find a key(a way to attain it), a lighter(a spark within yourself to do it), a knife(fight for your goal) and finally "the missing element"(yourself). If you will be able to find these, it will set you free, you will attain financial and emotional freedom.
So if the teenagers who will go to watch this movie will grasp the messages that Snyder is trying to convey, then this movie has some value, if they will just go under influence and watch it like a very long, not that interesting video game, then it's just another pebble in the graveyard...