For the most part Brick succeeds in pushing a neo-noir crime story within a school environment, thrusting young antagonists into a mature if sometimes needlessly over complicated plot. Though director Rian Johnson doesn't manage to knock it out of the park he still manages to craft a stylistic, well crafted concept combining all the positive elements of previous noir works into a hard boiled detective story.
Though Brick doesn't have a strong emotional tangent, nor does it push the genre into new heights it is an interesting work that is worth the time investing into it's rich, yet compelling story.
