Review of The Rules of Attraction

Very surprised this wasn't the director's first movie... It was like watching a film student/movie buff go "look how many gimmicks i cram into one film... including making a character-driven film about nothing!" The first scene is cool for about five minutes and then it's just really irritating. Gimmicks can work if they serve the right purpose. These seemed to distract from the fact that there was very little to care about going on in the film. Everything was exaggerated to the point of frustration. And the little "ambiguity" trick at the end? By that time no one cared what he was gonna say anyway so it was totally ineffective. The reason i'm giving this a 6 is cuz the actors did a pretty good job and gimmicks are fun for a little bit, plus it did have its funny moments though. if you've rented everything else at the video store and like to see movies based solely on artificial sex and drugs yea see it but if its sex drugs and rock n' roll u like, i'd go with 9 songs