TheHesh82 A great soundtrack (Aphex Twin, Clint Mansell) and brilliant cinematography (think Tetsuo The Iron Man) combine to create a claustrophobic and slightly disorienting look into the mind of a mathematician looking for a way to predict the stock market. What Max ends up finding is sought by more than just Wall St and may end up costing him his life.

kelvinkelvin-39755 I recently watched this again, it had been maybe 4 or 5 years since I watched the film. It's actually a better viewing over time, so much of what is covered in regards to the themes and even the tech are as important today (if not more) than it was almost 20 years ago. The look even gets better with age. When I first saw the film the blown out black and white was a bit of a distraction but now I find the look so perfect with the subject matter that it's hard to imagine one without the other. If you haven't seen this yet watch it now and if you haven't seen it in a long time fire up the machine and rewatch this now sci-fi classic.

blendax99 This is my first ever review. I saw the IMDb suggestion to write a review. I then started to think about what movie I would review. It took me about 5 seconds and the answer was Pi.When I first watched this movie I had no expectations at all. I was very open minded, so was the movie. It's a low budget indie masterpiece.It's about life, existence, god, genius and insanity. It's about the market and structure in chaos combined with a claustrophobic feeling.I don't like to mention more because you should not know about any movie before you see it.The movie really touched me deeply. It's one of it's kind.Still after 16 years I watch this movie every now and then because it's unique.

Dennis Laursen First of all, this movie is a annoying hell of blurred black-white scenes. I don't understand this want-to-be avant-garde way of making movies. Especially when it is possible to make clear colour-scenes now a days, also in 1998. Is this what bad directors do, to cover their incompetence, and cheat all the upper-class snobbish reviewers, who think that everything that is different from Hollywood-movies are great movies? I also get tired of Hollywood-movies - but there are also other bad movies, than the tedious stuff from Hollywood. Alone this drag the movie several stars down: DON'T MAKE BLACK-WHITE MOVIES WHEN COLOURS ARE INVENTED! And especially not as blurred and unclear as this. I can't barely see what happens in this movie, because everything is so dark and blurred.Furthermore, the story is also quite dull. It seems very interesting at first sight. But if you - as me - are patient enough to go through the entire movie, you will find yourself after the movie thinking: what's the point of this? What's the conclusion? What are this movie trying to tell me?I will go down to the movie store, sell my DVD-copy, and buy an other movie instead.