Pi (DVD) Reviews

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room PI is the film that shot director Darren Aronofsky to fame and allowed him to direct his better films Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, and The Wrestler most recently. It's a thrilling psycho noir that shows a lot of promise from a now huge director, with lots of hints of ...  Read the complete review

"11.15 Restate my assumptions. 1. Mathematics is the language of nature 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge..." - Max Cohen in the film Pi Plot Summary Pi (1998) is a dark, compelling and savage short film. ...  Read the complete review

Made on a tiny $60,000 budget this film went on to become quite succesful on the independent circuit, grabbed Darren Aronofsky the best director prize at Sundance and later helped him come to the attention of Warner Brothers via a startling second film called Requiem For A Dream. Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is a brilliant mathematician who ...  Read the complete review

Darren Aronofsky's award winning debut of '98 is simply a brilliant example of a masterpiece on a budget. Full emphasis is on the story and the feelings, and nothing else; which is exactly what every film should give atleast. This spooky thriller revolves around Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) a troubled man, after allegedly an ill ...  Read the complete review

The strangest, starkest and most chilling account of one man's descent into the abyss I have seen for a long while. This engrossing movie pulls you into the world surrounding Maximillian Cohen and his descent following mathematical clues derived from an analysis of the stock market, attempting to control his madness as he tries to discover the ...  Read the complete review

A directorial debut from Darren Aronofsky, this film is a delectable piece of cinema. Touted as an art house film, it has so much more to offer to a wider audience. The basic plot is easy to follow for people who require entertaining eye candy, but the subtleties of the underlying plot are engaging and stimulating Made on a shoe string, ...  Read the complete review

Listed as a "Sci-fi thriller" about Maths, I really did not expect to enjoy Pi. However, although I won't describe my response to the film as a pleasant surprise of fun-filled enjoyment, I will say that I'm glad I watched the film. Sean Gullete stars as Max Cohen, a mathematical genius who has spotted that there is a ...  Read the complete review

Pi is the independent 80 min movie and winner of Director's Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival from director Darren Aronofsky, who has since brought us another low budget movie Requiem for a Dream and in contrast is currently working on the fifth Batman project. I'm very glad to say I saw Pi last night and now I need to share it ...  Read the complete review

Sean Gullette plays Maximillian Cohen, a genius mathematician, stuck in a never-ending spiral of numerical theories. An amazing film following the progression of an unstable stock market statistician applying the patterns of nature and math to unravel the meaning of greater things. Each day with the use of his home built supercomputer he edges ...  Read the complete review

1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns, everywhere in nature. — Max Cohen, Pi. THE FILM In a film very difficult to synopsise well, ...  Read the complete review

PI is a very strange film. It stars Sean Gullette as a brilliant mathematician named Maximillian Cohen. Max is obsessed with finding out all about the mathematical figure of 'pi' and has also taken to trying to decipher the maths behind the New York stock exchange. He's then given the opportunity to discover the secret name of ...  Read the complete review

Pi is a great example of what you can do in film with very little money. 2 Weeks ago I met the director in New York and was reminded of how visual this film is. This is a black and white film but isn't purely grey. It has a pure black and clean white contrast look to it. The main charcater of Max is very weird but a determined guy. For most of ...  Read the complete review

Pi is a film that I probably shouldn’t like but I do. For a start it’s a low budget art house flick filmed in black and white and it’s about maths, which was my worst subject at school. Also film critics raved about it which always makes me nervous. Basically the main character, Max Cohen, is a maths genius who believes ...  Read the complete review

The world of film is now, for the most part, a place driven very much by the corporate ethos. Films aimed at the young American audience are considered the most profitable, and profits are considered the most important aspect of the movie industry, and hence films aimed at the (perceived) limited intellect or attention-span of this target audience ...  Read the complete review

"Faith In Chaos" Pi is one of the most memorable, intelligent, and unconventional films I've ever seen. on paper, the premise doesn't seem too appealing... it's essentially a film about Maths. The protagonist, "Max Cohen", is a brilliant mathematician, obsessed with the idea of patterns existing in ...  Read the complete review