Its OK...

Rating: 8/10 (30 September 2007)

I had very big expectations when I rented the movie, partially owing to "Requiem for a Dream". He is definitely a great actor but I felt lots of things in the production of this movie is rushed. And I understand it considering the financial difficulties that they had producing it (see extras in the DVD version). First of all the ideology behind the movie and the atmosphere is almost perfect. The scenes are so perfect that you don't even need any motion. You could just take a snap-shot of any scene and hang it on your wall. Especially the decision not to use "Computer Graphics" was a very good one. I am interested in science a lot and the realism of this movie is astonishing (owing to the CG decision). And these two things are the only two positive thoughts I had and they are enough alone to rate this movie, an eight. However I felt a lot disappointed when I saw that: (1) The acting was almost terrible (with a feeling of insincerity) in some scenes, but very good in others. (2) there is a scene where they used a doll as the stunt and it is very obvious to such a degree that it ruins all realism for the next ten minutes. (3) i found repeats of the past scenes boring. (4) lots of scene connection problems, no logic whatsoever in switching between time frames. (although they are done artfully). i understood what was going on fully in the second watch. As a summary, this movie is great but i can smell the financial problems and the rush in it. Requiem for a Dream was perfect, this one isn't.