Review – Rent

Jonathan Larson’s Broadway musical makes it to the big screen, transforming it into something even more cynical and exploitative than it was to begin with. Somewhere deep down this wants to be La Boheme, but what it becomes instead is New York City singing itself a long, tedious love song. The film version is competently performed and assembled. However, that did little to wash the taste of Hair – only with less Vietnam and more AIDS – out of my mouth. See if desperate