Just wanted to get the ball rolling on my favorite film of 2006 (as of April). If Brick is playing in your city, check it out.

I think this is one of the rare films that will have a far greater reputation in a few years. It has a smoldering quality to it, and, sometimes, that takes a while to build a true audience.

I agree that this hardboiled film in a high school setting worked well. The acting was great, and the dialogue was surperb. Overall, for such a small budget, the film did proved exceptionally well.

However, I watch movie very carefully for believability, and this movie just wouldn't happen in real life. I just wish they remade this film or something with a larger budget and not a noir in a high school setting, but with real drug dealers so that it's more real. Such a film would be awesome.

I do recommend this film, and people should check it out. Although I recommend watching it with subtitles.

I knew quite a few of the actors, probably just because I watch too much TV. In any case, it was indeed a really good movie, though the slang was hard to catch at first.

I had wanted to see "Brick" since I first saw a trailer for it but, I didn't catch it while it was in theaters. I just rented it & it will soon become apart of my DVD library. It was the strangest movie I've ever seen (& I've seen "Dark City")but, in a good way.

Wow, I just caught this on DVD the other day and I was frankly blown away. (I'm disappointed more people haven't commented in this thread.) Brick is one of those films you'll regret missing now, because you will be hearing its name -- and the director's -- much more in the future.

Yes, it's almost impossible to suspend your disbelief. I have no problem with even the most lavish Sci-Fi and even I was having trouble buying the concept, a "hardboiled detective story meets high school film" combination. When you see the word on the screen, it doesn't look like it should work, but it does. Actually, it works really, really well, I loved it. I don't know a single actor in the film (other than Shaft Richard Roundtree, and yet they all turned in superlative performances.

This is a love-it-or-hate-it film, but it will be remembered as a flagship Neo-noir picture, to be shelved along the recent efforts of Dark City, Memento and Donnie Darko. A masterpiece, in my opinion.

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