Review of Manic (2001) by Chris M — 23 Jun 2011

Lyle: ''I'm going to count to three. If you don't get up, I'm gonna kill you.'''.

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Here's a story about Lyle, who is prone to anger and violent outbursts, taken into a mental institution along the many others who share perhaps, different psychological problems, but if you look at it in another way, they may seem quite similar in the end. Who then on, battles among himself and the people surrounding him inside the institution... Basically this movie brings me to an awe state. I thought it was just a really stunning flick, mindfully. Just the way that the story was told and directed throughout the movie was very wondrous. The performances in this film were quite decent as well. It had pretty interesting situations. Keeping this in mind, the shitty and darned shaky cameras didn't really take much away from the film, other than being annoying at times, but it really didn't bother me much as the film itself made up for it. Nonetheless I thought this one was actually fascinating to watch for the most part, entertaining and surprisingly, I wasn't bored once throughout the whole thing. The characters were so well made up, that oddly enough, even you could probably relate to some things in this, so overall, a very decently made, angsty and down to Earth kind of movie. Recommended.