Although it helps if you like hardboiled stories a lot, as this really is a formally skewed kind of thing -- the tropes of hb fiction transplanted to high school. What's brilliant about it is first that it's done so faithfully, but secondly, and far more importantly (because after all "Veronica Mars" is a fairly faithful transposition), it catches onto a similarity between the doomed romanticism of Chandler and the doomed romanticism of high school more generally, a connection that nobody seems to have really caught before. I think that's just brilliant, frankly.
BRICK has it all: SPOILERS doomed women, dumb but frightening muscle, criminal masterminds, and a PI who takes enough abuse to level the frontline of the Pittsburgh Steelers but still manages to pull off one of those tricky, Hammett inspired quadruple-crosses.
Fantastic script, fine acting, and a wise use of a limited budget. A great movie.
BRICK has it all: SPOILERS doomed women, dumb but frightening muscle, criminal masterminds, and a PI who takes enough abuse to level the frontline of the Pittsburgh Steelers but still manages to pull off one of those tricky, Hammett inspired quadruple-crosses.
Fantastic script, fine acting, and a wise use of a limited budget. A great movie.