Casefile: Brick (2005)
Call it modern dress Shakespeare, but nix the Shakespeare. Take a story straight out of Dashiell Hammett and set it, say, at a high school in late 90s California. Bingo—it’s a great match. After all, ain’t a school like a city? You get all the usual types: the hustler, the tough guy, the loser, the dopehead. The teachers are the cops. The weird, smart loner is the detective. Nix the fedoras and the coats, and bring on the cell phones. All the pieces fit. Only it don’t wash. Why are some of these kids acting and talking like 1920s gangsters? The flick doesn’t really tell us anything about high school or hard boiled crime. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying it ain't fun; it just ain’t much more than that.
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