Brick

Pros: Gordon-Levitt, Haas, Zehetner, stylized dialogue, music and more
Cons: requires some willful suspension of disbelief

The 2005 neo-noir/ high-school noir "Brick," written, edited, and directed by Rian Johnson, is not opaque, but is also not at all translucent. Nothing becomes it more than its manner of leaving. (The satisfying ending stands in marked contrast to the ...

Pros: Not many
Cons: I couldn't buy into any of it

Brick is a fairly original bit of film noir that is atypically set in a high school. Unfortunately, originality of setting doesn’t carry this movie well enough. Maybe if I were younger, I’d have gotten more out of it. This was made by first-time ...

Pros: True indie look and feel, easy to like characters by and large
Cons: The story gets lost more than once, ending is sudden and tacked on.

I just glanced at the average rating for Brick: 4 stars.  I will be the 11th, so my review and rating will not budge it much, but it would budge it toward 3. Before I go into the meat of the summary and analysis, I want to say that all in ...

Pros: concept and execution, dialogue, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner
Cons: "a high school film noir" ain't gonna be everybody's cup of tea.

Brick, the first film from writer/director Rian Johnson, is a film that grabs your attention right from the opening frames, and not only because it has a plot that hits the ground running. No, what's even more noticeable from the very outset of ...

Pros: Some original situations and dialogue; sound design; spots of charm and humor
Cons: Hollow and pointless; affected

Brick (2006) is the first feature of Rian Johnson who wrote, directed and edited this original, curious, violent, and ultimately hollow neo-noir thriller. Set in and around a high school in modern day Southern California, the entire premise is ...

Pros: Johnson's Script/Direction/Editing, Cinematography, Look, Language, Music, & Cast.
Cons: None.

Ever since the days of the John Hughes high school films of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, films about high school often show an upbeat side with very little observation ...

Pros: rich, intricate storytelling and complex characterization
Cons: it'll lose the viewers who aren't willing to follow along very closely

Odd as it may seem, the mainstay characters of film noir can be seen reflected in contemporary high school culture. The big, tough muscle bound thugs? Football players and wresters. The seductive nightclub singer? Leading lady of the high school ...

Pros: Style, visualization, dialogue, everything.
Cons: None.

The way that I found out the film Brick is very different than most of my other experiences. If you read my other reviews, you’ll find that I find out about most non-mainstream films through sites like IMDB or some other way on my own. Brick, however, ...

Pros: It's a sincere work
Cons: Yet somehow still kind of the work of posers

Is Brick's main trick just an attention-grabbing gimmick, or is there actually something there behind it? It's a difficult question. There's a big difference between Memento's reverse-timeline structure, which had a valid artistic reason ...

Pros: Great story, characters, acting, direction, verbal style, always interesting
Cons: Verbal style not for everyone, a bit dark

There've been a lot of movies based around the troubles of high school. From John Hughes' comical, and ultimately timeless 80's classics, to Gus Van Sants depressing, albeit important Elephant, it would appear that the lives of teenagers makes for ...

Pros: Another good performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, unique dialogue, truly original story
Cons: none ; perhaps too violent for some. "Not a movie of nice people"

Brick is a 2005 film from first-time writer and director Rian Johnson, starring Lost star Emilie de Ravin, Mysterious Skin ( & TV show 3rd Rock from the Sun) star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Last Days actor Lukas Haas. Upon ...

Pros: Lot's of good action with an exciting story.
Cons: Dialogue may seem too out of place to SOME.

Brick, written and directed by Rian Johnson, is a refreshing movie. The dialogue and the setting seem to make a weird pair at first. Think about the language of old noir of the 30's through 50's with it's violence and corruption. Merge this with your ...

Pros: it wasn't any longer, and I could turn off the DVD player!
Cons: BORING, BORING and BORING, CONFUSING and just stupid!

UPDATED OCTOBER 12- since my original review was bashed by the "experts" on this site, i thought i'd update with a few more details- as hard as they are to find. My husband recently came home from the video store with this DVD. He said the pickings were ...