Brick (Blu-ray) R

A detective story
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: January 7, 2020
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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User Ratings: 105,606
Rating: 2.5/4 -- ...it's impossible not to wish that the first-time filmmaker hadn't leaned quite so heavily on the antiquated shenanigans. Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Oct 24, 2015
Rating: 4.5/5 -- That rarest of things: a movie called 'unique' that actually is. Full Review
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Jun 3, 2009
The self-consciously mannered rat-a-tat-tat dialogue also mines a neat overlap between teen slang and noir patois, both of which can be indecipherable to non-initiates. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: 2/4 -- Alas, Brick, from writer-director Rian Johnson, isn't as clever as its conceit.
Philadelphia Inquirer
May 5, 2006
Johnson pulls his hipster revisionism with cine-savvy brilliance and twitchy laughs....Bursts of action arrive with a wallop...
Total Film
Jun 1, 2006
It's great to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Mysterious Skin) in the juicy role of a high-school gumshoe on the trail of his estranged girlfriend's killers. Full Review
New York Magazine/Vulture
May 12, 2006
Rating: 3/5 -- Even with its shortcomings, Brick provides solid thrills for film noir fans. Full Review
BBC.com
May 16, 2006

Product Description:

A detective story set around a contemporary California high school, BRICK dares to combine the teen and film noir genres. In mixing these two disparate worlds, Director Rian Johnson creates many comically jarring and ironic moments. When loner Brendan Frye (a barely recognizable Joseph Gordon-Levitt of THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN) gets a desperate-sounding call from his ex-love Emily (Emilie de Ravin), he feels compelled to help her, plunging himself into the seedy world of teenage crime that pulled her away from him in the first place. Throughout this journey, Brendan plays a hard-boiled type reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart's iconic Sam Spade character. Johnson's script invests heavily in the fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and is filled with other archetypical characters like the femme fatale (Nora Zehetner), the eccentric crime lord (a brilliant Lukas Haas), and the dame in distress (de Ravin). As teens trade in their cell phones for things as old-fashioned as pay phones and 1940s gangster vocabulary, occasional references to detention and first period provide a humorous contrast with the otherwise unbelievable complex, precocious, and largely parentless world that these teens inhabit.

With its heavy reliance on references to old noir classics like THE MALTESE FALCON and THE BIG SLEEP, the film may risk alienating viewers not familiar with these older films. Seeing teenagers speaking in coded detective-movie-style lingo is entertaining, but mixed with the often overlapping, fast-paced but muttered dialogue, it also proves to be distracting at points. People eager to see a predictable teen drama may be confused by BRICK, as its goal is to turn the genre on its head, earning inevitable comparisons to films like 2001's surreal teen fantasy DONNIE DARKO. Because of the film's attention to detail and witty yet hard-to-follow dialogue, BRICK may be better appreciated on second viewing.

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