Heroin junkies are tedious. So, when you go to see a movie about heroin junkies, all you can hope for that is that it makes the junkies a little less tedious. Candy (tiff | imdb) didn’t do that. In fact, it missed the one chance it had for an interesting angle: juxtaposing the ugliness of their addiction with the beauty of the leads, or their environs.

Everything this film tried to make tragic was ugly; everything they tried to make ugly was just weak. I gave it a 2/10 only because Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush made decent work of their roles. Avoid.

[tags]tiff, toronto international film festival, candy[/tags]