The lonely teenager Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) finds his former girlfriend Emily (Emilie de Ravin) dead in the entrance of a tunnel of sewage and recalls her phone call two days ago, when she said to him that she was in trouble. Brendan, who still loved Emily, met bad elements of his high-school trying to contact her, and when he succeeded, she told him that she was OK. He hides her body in the tunnel and decides to investigate the meaning and connection of four words, including "brick" and "pin", that Emily told him to find who killed her. Using the support of his nerd friend Brain (Matt O'Leary), he successively meets the small time drug dealers Kara (Meagan Good), Dode (Noah Segan), Brad Bramish (Brian White), Laura (Nora Zehetner) and Tugger (Noah Fleiss), to reach the teenager powerful drug dealer The Pin (Lukas Haas). Slowly, Brendan unravels the motives why Emily was killed and plots a revenge.
"Brick" is a weird, overrated by many and unbelievable, but original tale of revenge. This teen low-budget movie has a terrible development of characters, totally unbelievable situations and an authentic anti-hero, Brendan, who was a former smalltime drug dealer and rat and is spanked everywhere. Further, a powerful criminal like The Pin would never be so naive and silly like the character of this flick. It is hilarious to see that some people is giving the categorization of "film-noir' to this detective teen story. I expect that one day they see a couple of film-noir to understand the meaning and components of this genre. I noted that there are many reviews apparently "planted" of users with only one review in IMDb to promote this film since 26 January 2005. In spite of that, the story is intriguing and the movie is not bad. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "A Ponta de um Crime" ("The Tip of a Crime")
"Brick" is a weird, overrated by many and unbelievable, but original tale of revenge. This teen low-budget movie has a terrible development of characters, totally unbelievable situations and an authentic anti-hero, Brendan, who was a former smalltime drug dealer and rat and is spanked everywhere. Further, a powerful criminal like The Pin would never be so naive and silly like the character of this flick. It is hilarious to see that some people is giving the categorization of "film-noir' to this detective teen story. I expect that one day they see a couple of film-noir to understand the meaning and components of this genre. I noted that there are many reviews apparently "planted" of users with only one review in IMDb to promote this film since 26 January 2005. In spite of that, the story is intriguing and the movie is not bad. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "A Ponta de um Crime" ("The Tip of a Crime")