Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 136
Fresh: 59 | Rotten: 77
A tiresome movie about unsympathetic college kids engaging in self-destructive behaviors.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 18
A tiresome movie about unsympathetic college kids engaging in self-destructive behaviors.
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Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel about the sexual, emotional, and chemical interactions of a group of wealthy and amoral college students is brought to the screen in this adaptation from writer and director Roger Avery. Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is a student at Camden College, a well-respected private school on the East Coast. Sean is attracted to Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon), a high minded and seemingly unapproachable coed, while Lauren is infatuated with Victor (Kip Pardue), a
Oct 11, 2002 Wide
Feb 18, 2003
$6.5M
Lions Gate Films
All Critics (142) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (77) | DVD (22)
Actually I quite enjoyed the movie--but how do I get rid of this awful discharge?
Ellis' satire, filtered through Avary's harsh lens, is hard to stomach, harder to ignore.
The nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome, with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations.
The bulk of Rules comes off like a cool-hand poser's at the wheel.
A party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid.
Avary's crisp adaptation imbues the copious bad sex and general befuddlement of Bret Easton Ellis's solemn, echt '80s Bennington novel with a playfully obnoxious energy that is often funny and ... almost fun.
Not for kids, and not for many adults, either.
Will either fascinate or infuriate you, sometimes within the same moment--and it's difficult imagining the film working any better if it did not.
When a movie is described by some critics as morally repellent and by others as innovative and brilliant, it means at the very least that it's controversial and touching a nerve in the collective consciousness.
The leads and their accomplices look dead glam, but it's never clear whether their vacuity is a deliberate strategy. Certainly Avary's style seems all for instant gratification.
Un film corrosif mettant sans dessus dessous tous les points qu'il aborde.
Itâ(TM)s comedy with consequence, shenanigans rooted in an ugly reality.
Maybe it's writer/director Roger Avary's approach. He has taken the source material too seriously, and presented it almost at face value.
Atuações surpreendemente eficazes, uma trilha sonora espetacular, um roteiro inteligente e ácido e a direção intensa de Avary criam um filme absolutamente imperdível.
Avary's style is sure to turn off many viewers, while others will find his inventive filmmaking exhilarating.
The opening moments culminate with a drunken date rape during which the rapist vomits on the back of his victim. It doesn't really improve from there.
It's an outstanding film, clearly stamped with some bravura filmmaking techniques, an impeccable soundtrack and a stereotype-shattering performance from James Van Der Beek.
You can happily give this a miss.
A breathtaking story told in breathtaking style.
A disagreeable and unrewarding expose of what spoilt college students get up to in expensive New England colleges.
Yup, that's pretty much how i remember college, AFU brook - class of '87
April 18, 2007Super Reviewer
Three college students navigate the perils of courtship all the while not realizing their own shallow natures and inability to understand that their methods are incapable of producing their goals.What I like most about Bret Easton Ellis's satires is the way he takes generic conventions with which we are all familiar,
March 22, 2011
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