Rent: Blu-ray Review (2007)

Evict them.

Toward the nerve-jangling midpoint, when the story and its Bohemian-wannabe characters have whipped themselves into a froth, there's no question that we're dealing with a film that apparently broke a hip upon its leap from stage to screen.

The movie is a mess, collapsing in ways from which it doesn't recover, though God knows it tries. Homelessness, death, drug addiction, sexuality, HIV and AIDS all are tackled, yet in spite of this, the movie packs the dramatic punch of a feather.

Its problem is that it demands to be taken literally.

In one scene, a character might be having a perfectly engaging conversation about the dangers of shooting up dope or the worry of not being able to pay the rent, and then suddenly be singing his heart out, setting trash cans ablaze and dancing on tables as if that'll keep on the lights.

It doesn't.

Rated PG-13. Grade: C-

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