It's that story that embodies the life of a single teenager. This teenager enters a bad turn when he looks to the underworld in the high school crime ring. Over time, the teenager is trying to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, whose case will reveal strange secrets.
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.
Although Brick can be a bit thick, you have to admire the effort.
Suite101.com
September 25, 2010
Noir fits "Brick" like a glove, stylishly injecting assured tough talk, vice-grip tension, black humor, striking sound design and gunshots sounding like locker doors slammed on options. A great detective story and, for some, a high-school flashback.
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.
