Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Dave from Ottawa Jason Schwartzman plays an ordinary guy floating on the margins of the Crank Head culture, crossing paths with dealers, strippers, TV reality show cops (led by a mullet-sporting Peter Stormare), and other assorted fringe dwellers, all of them desperate, crazed and wrong in their own unique fashion. Jason drives for a wrestling addicted drug chemist (Mickey Rourke in a shambling, grunting, full bodied performance that pre-saged his work in the Wrestler) who is admired for his rough cowboy demeanor but who reveals himself over time to be a selfish exploiter. In between trips to convenient stores to buy drug making supplies, Jason slides in and out of an occasionally cartoonish (literally so, animation and all) twisted reality as he engages in the sort of drug seeking behavior that is the daily and even hourly existence of the drug user. This is not a serious look at drug use and its consequences, however, but rather a trippy slice-of-lowlife wander through the motels, strip bars, trailer parks and porn shops where the bottom feeders of the drug world live. One detail of their lives which is not overlooked by the camera is that 'tweakers' are so caught up the chase for their next high that they have perpetual ADHD, living lives of neglect surrounded by the debris of half-finished jobs and empty pizza boxes. Yuck. Look fast for rock heavyweights Debbie Harry (Blondie) as Jason's neighbor and Rob Halford (Judas Priest) as a porn shop manager. Amusing and memorable as a movie, but pay attention to the language advisory. The script is as foul-mouthed as anything since the Sopranos went off the air.

pizzaman2001 All in all a fairly decent drug movie. Very very similar in some ways in how it was filmed to Requiem for a dream. But the plot was not as well thought out as Requium. One thing that bothered me about this movie though (being a recovering addict to many different substances) is the lack of realism of the characters eyes when they got high. Their pupils got constricted (pinpoint) when they got high on the crank when they should have gotten dilated. Opiates make your pupils constricted and uppers such as Coke and Meth make your pupils dilate. Other than that inaccurate portrayal of a side effect of drug use it was a decent way to kill an hour and a half. Just don't expect to learn anything and take it as it is.

ericjams I simply want to discuss why I think this movie stands out among the genre of "drug" movies. Unlike heroin, LSD, marijuana, ecstasy, or coke, meth is a drug that simply can not be glorified. I love drugs and I love drug experiences. I mean I've grown past much of those scenes, but I appreciate drugs and often appreciate the ability directors have to depict drugs on the silver screen. Watching Spun makes me thankful that I never resorted to Meth, and I think its a brilliant rendition of what this drug does to you. As for the acting, I found the movie difficult to watch because the acting was so "spun" in a sense. The ADD that meth brings on is so clear in this movie. No thought is finished, no plan is thought out, cause and effect are muddled in a world of sped minds. Its not my favorite movie of this genre largely because I feel like drug abuse should at the very least bring a satisfying high to the user before sinking the user into the myriad of troubles that drug addiction brings. This is the one saving grace for the user, the momentary high. In Spun, the momentary highs don't bring much grace, but instead, bring added confusion, added torment, and added lows. Its not easy to watch, but its respectable nonetheless.

Gary Murphy I was expecting a gritty drama of life as a drug seeker. Unfortunately, the writers chose to interject campy comedy into the rather stoned script, so all notion of interest went away quickly. The direction and editing were second rate. One of Brittany Murphy's rants was so poorly edited, the point of the dialog was lost.There was some good acting by the primary cast of characters. John Leguizamo did an exceptional job as did Brittany Murphy. Mena Suvari also turned in a good performance. Much of the rest of the cast were B actors, turning in some awful performances. The two gals that portrayed the liquor store clerks must have really been clerks because they certainly weren't actors. Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts demonstrated their expected second rate skills.The story line also went into animated trip scenes that I felt were just pornographic. I am not prudish about such things, but it was not relevant to advancing the story or helping us understand the characters. Certainly, I don't need to see a turd drop. What was the point of that? In all this is a mess of a movie. It suffers from bad writing, horrible direction and a severe shortage of good acting. If you are interested in some tales of drugs, skip this flick and rent "Requiem for a Dream".