An average movie

Honestly, I'm not sure I should review this picture. The point is that I was completely stoned out of my mind when I watched this. I used to smoke a lot when I was younger but it had been a while when my brother-in-law proposed me a joint. After that, I watched this flick which became a rather surrealistic experience. Apparently, it was one of those huge financial and critical flops directed by Joel Schumacher starring this time a whole bunch of young stars (Chace Crawford, Rory Culkin, 50 Cent, Zoë Kravitz, Emma Roberts). Still, I enjoyed most of it. Indeed, like I said before, because I was really stoned the whole thing felt rather surrealistic. It was enhanced by the fact that the movie was shot digitally and not on film (at least, it felt like it was!) as a result, it looked really sharp and detailed. There were also some dreamlike scenes which looked even weirder to me and, on top of that, some drug sequences enhanced by my own intoxication. Concerning the story, it dealt with a lot ot characters and there were probably too many sub-plots. There was a story about some fictional drug called twelve but it was really barely developped so you wonder why they didn't stick to some crack but then, the title wouldn't make much sense. The cast was actually decent, except maybe Emma Roberts who didn't convince me but like I said before, the characters were not well developped. Finally, there was this very chaotic and messy ending where most of the characters were reunited. Even though I was under the influence, I was still able to see that this ending was not really good. To conclude, there is a good chance that this movie was actually pretty bad, but because of the circumstances, I enjoyed most of it and I think it is worth a look.

P.S.: did you know that they call hashish 'shit' in France? My American friends always found it really hilarious. It is indeed a rather stupid name.

6/10