It's sometimes hard to review a movie that you love as much as I love "Brick". There is absolutely nothing bad to say about this movie, it's pretty much entirely a perfect film. So I'm just gonna throw this out there now, you can really just skip everything I have to say and go and rent this film, because I can't really describe the awesomeness that is "Brick".
Well...I'll give it a shot. Basically it's a hard-boiled noir mystery film that takes place in a high school. The cinematography is gorgeous, the acting is INCREDIBLE, especially by two of my favorite young underrated actors, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lukas Haas, who play the two main characters in the film. Gordon-Levitt's character plays the role of detective, struggling to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of the dame he loves. The characters all speak as if they are in one of Dashiell Hammett's novels, and after watching the film, I decided to talk this way for good month or so; calling all girls "dames" and "dolls", jerks "dumb mugs", and "let's dust" instead of "let's go", which increased my popularity ten-fold....in my mind anyway.
Everything about this film is perfection, even down to the soundtrack, which is hauntingly gorgeous. Made on a miniscule budget, and a first-time outing for director Rian Johnson, "Brick" went on to win the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the Sundance Festival in 2005. I even went so far as to give a copy of this film to my sixty-some years boss as a Christmas gift, which went over spectacularly. Granted, he's a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock films, but still, "Brick" will appeal to everyone on ALL levels. Stop reading my prattle and watch it already.
