Brick
Brick
R | 31 March 2006 (USA)
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After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.

Reviews
Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation
Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
memebigboy-98803 Brick is a moody atmospheric mystery film with dialogues straight out of a 1940's hard-boiled detective masterpiece with visuals influenced cowboy bebop, the film takes place in a High School and you might think that teenager doing detective work is silly well the movie makes jokes about that, the film is very cheap in a good way because the film is about high schoolers so it adds to the mystique, the sound quality is little muddied in some places and will i do like the dialogue it does sound a little confusing because of sound quality, some of the side characters are under used, overall the movie is great you should watch it
J_Carls Anyone who loves cinema and isn't full of themselves will love this movie. It manages to both satirize two genres while also being a well-constructed example of both. It does this by taking one classic vocabulary of sociopathic behavior (1930's gangster movies) and applies it to different set of sociopathic characters (self-absorbed, oh-so-serious teenagers).I have only two complaints. The first is that the dialog can be so stylized (in a beautifully realized combination of teen slang and gangster-speak) that you may want to use subtitles (or just watch the film again immediately). Yet, the dialog is often inventive (sometimes hilariously) and is definitely worth the time to watch.The other complaint is the number of one-star reviews I am seeing from people who, to be honest, cannot possibly meet the qualifications I mentioned at the beginning of this review. I can only guess that they came into this movie with a fixed idea of what it was going to be like and refused to change that expectation (or maybe they just needed those subtitles). But that is this movie's most obvious strength: It is simply not what you expect.
Alan Smithee Esq. An excellent neo-noire mystery set in high school. Such a great who done it flick with an amazing cast, talented director and plot that digs its hooks into you and pulls you through a spider web of deceit, drugs and shady characters. It's one part "Chinatown" and one part "Beverley Hills 90210". Check it out.
ijsmariabou Since I saw Brick is has raised to the first position of my list of film noir films. I have liked a lot the film although there have been parts that I haven't understood.This film shows the structure of the film noir because is has a lot of characteristics. For example they don't show happiness in all the movie they are a lot's of scene which are urban and dark, i this film they give lot of importance to the cigarette that in film noir is a really big characteristic. When you see this film you are really integrated and make you think a lot to know who has kill Em (protagonist) . I think that every body can like this film because is a film noir but modern. I have liked the film a lot but there was some scene that I didn't understood.