Brick

2006 "A detective story."
7.1| 1h50m| R| en
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After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.

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Mjeteconer Just perfect...
FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Paul Nevai I am about 50 years older than the characters in the film. As it turns out they speak a different English than I. Even with subtitles and even if many of the words sounded familiar, I was completely lost. Finally, after 80 minutes, I admitted defeat and stopped watching it.Please note that I am a white person who lives in the US just like the kids in the movie. In addition, I am a retired professor at a major state university who dealt with thousands of kids over the years. Nevertheless, I never in my life met kids with such an odd vocabulary. Am I out of touch?
genicoletti Brick is an ''ok'' representation of old films noir in nowadays. It makes a great job in producing all the mystery and suspense atmosphere that old movies of the genre could create. The color editing, the way that the characters speaks and acts, it makes you feel the tense climate but it also makes the film a bit boring because of the long dialogues scenes.The movie happens in a modern high school and has a nerdy looking guy named Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as the main character. He starts searching for his ex-girlfriend, Emily (Emilie de Ravin) when she calls him asking for his help. After finding her dead body, Brendan goes deeper in secrets and crime gangs.In general, Brick is a good film for who wants to remember an old noir but it lacks in creating good characters and there's no introduction at all: the film fails in creating a relationship between the characters and the audience, their personalities are very bad and forgetful, it's very artificial; it looks like there's no introduction to the film, when it starts things are already going on, you don't even know who is the main character, maybe it's part of the genre but it was not made in a good way this time. I would change a lot in the characters, maybe put a bit of emotion to them and add an introduction explaining what is going on and things that happened that have lead to the situation.
rodrigo di pietro Brick is a movie that in some points follows the basic structure of a film noir; such as, the main story line of solving a mysterious murder. Most of the time, the film tries to use the classic film noir structure, but blending with punk and gang styles. What actually happens is a boring and static way to tell a possible interesting story ruined by some bad and confusing dialogues. The dialogue that the film tries to incorporate fails again despite the interesting vocabulary used. The film doesn't establish a connection between the characters and the public. Both aspects ruined the experience that I had with the movie. However, the acting of the main character is good and the interesting shots of the movie help to make it watchable.
jujurugeri "Review for Brick"Brick it's a movie which releases the classic film noir, without some classics features like detectives, tobaccos and hats, but with codes, language, active narrator, filming angles, the dark interiors, the shutters and the visual characteristics. The main character, a cunning young college student, but who goes unnoticed as the hero trying to unravel the mystery surrounding Emily's disappearance.This movie is about a lonely teenager who investigates the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend Emily, who has recently joined a more popular and also more dangerous group. With the help of Brain, Brendan's investigation takes him to a group of drug traffickers led by The Pin. And the one who first appeared to be more of a brownie, turns out to be a fierce and determined hero, who takes advantage of the strengths and weaknesses of each one to achieve their attempts.Although this film has a stylized dialog it does not distract the public, because is a very easy and don't have to keep the public away, so I liked the film because, the story is very good and the way the authors managed to mix a teenage scene with the classic style of film noir was very good.