3 a. m. by Eminem

This music video was definitely sending "cool" vibes my way.  However, it was encumbered by the sheer amount of random dancing.  I don't like to review the songs, but I just want to say one thing: though I obviously didn't like the tune, as it was modern music, the lyrics were EPIC.  Anyways, it goes like this.  The video cuts between a huge number of separate stories, pictures, and vague notions.  In one, the main character finds himself out in the woods.  He sees that he has a bandage around his arm and when he unwraps it, there is a hospital tag/bracelet thing and a cut.  In another, which, due to the way he holds a knife right where the cut is in the first, I believe is meant to happen earlier, the same guy is walking in a hospital and he takes some pills, kills a nurse, and is later shown with several bodies around him.  A third shows the guy in a bathtub full of blood.  In a fourth, he is watching TV and goes downstairs.  The rest are short snippets that aren't repeated throughout the show, and generally have a lot of blood in it and depict the protagonist as a murderer.  With all of that to draw on, he still managed to make the music video worse by adding dancing to it. 


You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAuo8IOFNuE

1 point if the music video in question has very good dancing or no dancing.
I'm no expert on dance, so by "very good," I mean that it doesn't drown me in a wave of cheesy or look creepily sexual.  His dancing did neither of those things so I give this point.
1 point if the music video has no dancing.
 A good half of the video was taken up by the various versions of him dancing.  
1 point if the music video has something from the beginning come into play at the end.
Yes.  At the end, nearly every version of the protagonist raises his hand to the sky, referencing even the versions at the beginning.
1 point if the music video has a series of related images, a theme, or a plotline.
Um.  Er.  It kind of has all three.  Some of the versions have a clear plotline, some have a theme, and there are an awful lot of images, too.  This point works.

1 point if the music video has a theme or a plotline.
Yes, it has both.  Point.

1 point if the music video has a plotline.
Here is the best part of the video.  It gets a point from me.

1 point if the music video is either depicts extreme coolness or extreme realism.
3 a. m. is cool.  From the way the blood forms on the walls to the way the camera angle works, it is definitely cool.  
1 point if the music video, if it has a plotline or theme, has no diversions from it.
Oh, man.  Should this give it a negative point, for the plotlines being only some of many things?  No, I won't do that, but it definitely does not get this point.
1 point if the music video does something that makes you think. 
No points here.  There's nothing really wow going on.  The guy's just portraying a psycho serial killer.

1 point to spare in case I really like it.
I don't.  I wouldn't rave about it to my friends.  It's a nice video, but it has too much negative stuff going for it for me to give it this point.


This video gets a 6/10.  
I am HIGHLY up for suggestions for music videos to review.