Dave from Ottawa Jason Schwartzman plays an ordinary guy floating on the margins of the Crank Head culture, crossing paths with dealers, strippers, TV reality show cops (led by a mullet-sporting Peter Stormare), and other assorted fringe dwellers, all of them desperate, crazed and wrong in their own unique fashion. Jason drives for a wrestling addicted drug chemist (Mickey Rourke in a shambling, grunting, full bodied performance that pre-saged his work in the Wrestler) who is admired for his rough cowboy demeanor but who reveals himself over time to be a selfish exploiter. In between trips to convenient stores to buy drug making supplies, Jason slides in and out of an occasionally cartoonish (literally so, animation and all) twisted reality as he engages in the sort of drug seeking behavior that is the daily and even hourly existence of the drug user. This is not a serious look at drug use and its consequences, however, but rather a trippy slice-of-lowlife wander through the motels, strip bars, trailer parks and porn shops where the bottom feeders of the drug world live. One detail of their lives which is not overlooked by the camera is that 'tweakers' are so caught up the chase for their next high that they have perpetual ADHD, living lives of neglect surrounded by the debris of half-finished jobs and empty pizza boxes. Yuck. Look fast for rock heavyweights Debbie Harry (Blondie) as Jason's neighbor and Rob Halford (Judas Priest) as a porn shop manager. Amusing and memorable as a movie, but pay attention to the language advisory. The script is as foul-mouthed as anything since the Sopranos went off the air.

fgfbach The film is about some crazy guys using dopes and some crazy guys making and selling dopes and some crazy policemen looking to bust those who sell and use, everyone and everything in the film is just so crazy that even this fact alone enough to take you inside and grab there till it ends. Be careful and not watch it with your family as i don't think your parents would like to see the guy with a sock in his penis, full naked, with a gun in his hand, coming from masturbating with the help of tele-sex service girl after getting dope. . If you like quick scenes with normally-not-necessary-details (you will see that some of the main characters are 'the doors' banging regularly and 'engines' in close range in every car scene) and full of edit films, you'll like this one for sure, you may even want to watch it more than once.. this film is said to have more than 5.000 edits, real fun if you like it (this film is nothing but a genius especially after watching 'elephant' of Gus Van Sant) i think the longest scene is when Ross makes the last phone call to Amy near bus station, up to 20 seconds non-stop...Also its great to watch Leguizamo (i first watched him in Carlito's way) with such a crazy role, don't even talk about The cook (M.Rourke).. . For me the only scene i got bored is when Ross is in the Car with Nikki,after she decides to leave The Cook, getting dope together with imaginative edits ,last some minutes. But thats a drop in a glass. . Musics are slow, country style, its like a 'break' in 3-4 times in the film. . crazy characters, simple story, powerful edit and a fantastic watch in one gulp, don't miss the fun...

pizzaman2001 All in all a fairly decent drug movie. Very very similar in some ways in how it was filmed to Requiem for a dream. But the plot was not as well thought out as Requium. One thing that bothered me about this movie though (being a recovering addict to many different substances) is the lack of realism of the characters eyes when they got high. Their pupils got constricted (pinpoint) when they got high on the crank when they should have gotten dilated. Opiates make your pupils constricted and uppers such as Coke and Meth make your pupils dilate. Other than that inaccurate portrayal of a side effect of drug use it was a decent way to kill an hour and a half. Just don't expect to learn anything and take it as it is.

sitenoise If it doesn't bother you when a director blatantly rips off another movie, take this one for a spin. It's Requiem for a Dream for the methamphetamine crowd. Not as good, of course, but it's a fun ride. Lots of quick edits, lots of Oliver Stone weird, sweaty, extreme close-ups, and absolutely no substance. It's just a week, or so, in the life of a bunch of speed freaks. Nothing more.BIlly Corgan contributes some good stuff, via Djali Zwan to the soundtrack and gets in a quick cameo. There are lots of cameos alongside the ensemble cast. Leguizamo's a little over the top, and Mira Sorvino, er ... Mena Suvari seemed a little stretched, but all in all not too bad. It's a fine line between over-acting and acting like you're freakin' on speed, so I'm not going to complain.Spun is also surprisingly explicit in a number of ways: Leguizamo's masturbation scene wearing nothing but a sock; the shot of a little turd splashing in the toilet while Sorvino takes a dump; a girl tied to a bed for pretty much the length of the movie, naked and spread eagle with gaffer's tape over her mouth and eyes forced to listen to a skipping CD the whole time.There is no moral to the story. Heck, there really isn't any story. It's just one big buzz with events. I don't mind that it's a Requiem for a Dream clone in style, not substance. I would imagine this kind of physical film making via power-edits would be difficult to do, and I think this first time director did a credible job.