Fast-cut editing does not equal genius

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2011)

David Fincher. 30-second spots strung together for 2 1/2 hours. As much as I love a beautiful scene, a quick, clever edit and Trent Reznor's edgy sounds all separate from each other, these elements together are not the way to tell this story – a complex one at that. Because today's youth, and by extension their parents, are so enamored with anything that is "quick," it has to be revered as a work of genius?
Fast-cut MTV-style editing, like fast talking, does not make something good. Just because you, audience, could not follow entire sections of the plot doesn't make you dumb. It makes the director dumb.
I give it a "3" for raw techniques, music, albeit totally misplaced and gratuitous. And a good performance by Rooney Mara.