This script brings up an important facet of the drug use of kids today- they have become a bunch of little pill poppers because of the massive push from our new drug dealers- the pharmaceutical companies with their psychiatrist drug pushers.
OK, it's cool to bash suburbia and how lame it is. How out of touch the parents are with reality and how wonderfully hypocritical they all can be. That part of the movie is fun but it can't cover up the lack of a cohesive story that becomes painfully evident after a while. This script has the feel that it was written by different writers writing different scenes and then the scenes were stitched together in no apparent order.
The plot is about a kid who is blackmailed into stealing drugs but what makes no sense is he is threatened by the gang holding a kid he has no emotional ties to whatsoever. Why he would care whether this kid lives or dies makes no sense in light of him being on heavy meds to the point of not caring about much of anything.
One thing I really like about this movie is the expose on ineffective parenting approaches. Anyone that has seen this idiotic crap attitude towards kids in action and the damage it causes on a kid's life can identify.
What I hate about this movie is the implausible tie ups to the plot. Some of the acting moments are forgettable for sure. At certain points in the film it will become completely farcical. By the end of this movie it has really entered after-school special territory and lost all credibility whatsoever.
The name of this movie is based on a video game but that tie-in was poorly executed and inessential.
I didn't think this movie was all that great but it did cover some topics that tend to be all of the areas where suburban people tend to be hypocritical failures.
If you wanna get down with your teen angst and hate some suburbanites with your gonads and strife for a while, this is your movie. If you want any kind of realism or true edginess.. forget it- this movie stumbles a lot in the plot and isn't' exactly sure what it is trying to say. I think the Hollywood J-men must have smelt Donnie Darko here and were shooting for a hit with that audience. What they got is worth a look but as a whole, it only rhymes with hit.
BETTER MOVIES TO SEE: Donnie Darko
OK, it's cool to bash suburbia and how lame it is. How out of touch the parents are with reality and how wonderfully hypocritical they all can be. That part of the movie is fun but it can't cover up the lack of a cohesive story that becomes painfully evident after a while. This script has the feel that it was written by different writers writing different scenes and then the scenes were stitched together in no apparent order.
The plot is about a kid who is blackmailed into stealing drugs but what makes no sense is he is threatened by the gang holding a kid he has no emotional ties to whatsoever. Why he would care whether this kid lives or dies makes no sense in light of him being on heavy meds to the point of not caring about much of anything.
One thing I really like about this movie is the expose on ineffective parenting approaches. Anyone that has seen this idiotic crap attitude towards kids in action and the damage it causes on a kid's life can identify.
What I hate about this movie is the implausible tie ups to the plot. Some of the acting moments are forgettable for sure. At certain points in the film it will become completely farcical. By the end of this movie it has really entered after-school special territory and lost all credibility whatsoever.
The name of this movie is based on a video game but that tie-in was poorly executed and inessential.
I didn't think this movie was all that great but it did cover some topics that tend to be all of the areas where suburban people tend to be hypocritical failures.
If you wanna get down with your teen angst and hate some suburbanites with your gonads and strife for a while, this is your movie. If you want any kind of realism or true edginess.. forget it- this movie stumbles a lot in the plot and isn't' exactly sure what it is trying to say. I think the Hollywood J-men must have smelt Donnie Darko here and were shooting for a hit with that audience. What they got is worth a look but as a whole, it only rhymes with hit.
BETTER MOVIES TO SEE: Donnie Darko