Manic

Rating:
Summary: -
Review: This is a great movie, by a VERY talented first time director, which grabs you from the brilliant opening credit sequence and never lets go. This film works on so many different levels, I don't understand how it was so overlooked by the arthouse crowd. The performances, the miniDV cinematography, the score...the script...it's all right on the money. Buy it or rent it...JUST WATCH IT. You won't be sorry.

Rating:
Summary: a teenaged One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Review: This is a great movie, by a VERY talented first time director, which grabs you from the brilliant opening credit sequence and never lets go. This film works on so many different levels, I don't understand how it was so overlooked by the arthouse crowd. The performances, the miniDV cinematography, the score...the script...it's all right on the money. Buy it or rent it...JUST WATCH IT. You won't be sorry.

Rating:
Summary: Decent flick with ok dialouge, not quite IFC standards
Review: This movie has a very interesting and styleistic opening scene and following scenes but they dont really go anywhere, it just sort of flows on. One may not expect much change and matureing to happen at a mental insitution, but still, its a movie. The main guy is not too beleaveable execept when he fights, not at just being and suffering within himself. The best performances are by Don Cheatle, the quiet Indian/Mexican kid (he was excelent), and the big and rowdy wigger. The ending lacks visual breakthrough and could have been better, if it was a bit darker and had a different male lead.

Rating:
Summary: Decent flick with ok dialouge, not quite IFC standards
Review: This movie has a very interesting and styleistic opening scene and following scenes but they dont really go anywhere, it just sort of flows on. One may not expect much change and matureing to happen at a mental insitution, but still, its a movie. The main guy is not too beleaveable execept when he fights, not at just being and suffering within himself. The best performances are by Don Cheatle, the quiet Indian/Mexican kid (he was excelent), and the big and rowdy wigger. The ending lacks visual breakthrough and could have been better, if it was a bit darker and had a different male lead.