content: I am still on a Rent strike: Director Chris Columbus' cinematic take on Jonathan Larson's tale of friends and lovers, junkies and transsexuals, battling AIDS, poverty and other assorted maladies of the this thing called Life remains overblown, overwrought and overdone. On the big screen, "lame" also comes into play. Many of the original Broadway cast members are reunited for this gritty, noisy excursion into an underbelly that has gone belly up.