Best movie of this year hands down!

What makes it different from others?

Lack of good storyline.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Brick is an ambitious film, but it really does fall short. The cinematography is quite possibly it's best aspect (not to say all other aspects were bad) because it evokes a certain amateurish style in which we see exceptional techniques. However, the editing was so poor that it takes away from the cinematography. Littered with mid-scene jump cuts that serve no purpose, I was constantly removed from the story to question: "What the hell was that?" While I understand this was Rian's first film and it had a low budget, I will not lower my standards of what makes a great film to cater to his practical inadequacies. Moving on to the writing, I see what Rian was going for in creating noir characters in a contemporary setting but I feel that he over-embellished the dialogue with so many idioms and slang that the audience becomes lost in the story's trajectory. i also understand how some films are more concerned with characters and atmosphere, rather than the logic of the story. For instance, The Big Lebowski (also based on hard-boiled novel) develops the characters as the Dude tries to replace his rug. Yet, itt wasn't about the rug, Bunny, or Jackie Treehorn's conspiracy, it's about these fricken awesome characters, and it works! Here, not so much. These characters, purely based within noir archetypes, have little if any identifiable or redeemable qualities. Which means it's hard to give a crap how it ends. Having said that, it is a film that is certainly worth a watch, as is any film where the audience has such polar reactions.

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.

No, I believe that Brick doesn't follow the traditional film noir structure because the main protagonists a teenager, not an adult. The mood of the film is very sketchy and quite unsettling. I was very confused at the end of the movie, and the dialogue was so difficult to catch which was why I rated the movie so low. Yes, I think the dialogue in Brick confuses the audience. However, the dialogue does give the movie some style and variety, but for me the movie is still not good. I didn't enjoy this film because of the confusing points in the plot and the strange style of dialogue. I would have changed the dialogue and made some of the plot points more clear to the audience.

I think that Brick follows film noir it a more modern detective way. Like when he finds clues and beat up people to find more information.The tone of the film is dark. When you are watching you always not expecting whats going to happen. And if you think you know, you find out its not true.I think that the dialog is Strange and it makes it hard yo understand I didn't like the film because of the odd dialog and low budget filming