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Doesn't live up to the fuss I won't go so far as to say that this was a bad movie or that I didn't like it. I think it's because it deals with a teacher and after growing up a daughter of one, the mystique of teaching is lost on me. Don't get me wrong, I love my mom and there are things in life that I wouldn't know if I hadn't grown up with her. But there's just not a super human kind of special to teachers that gets portrayed in movies. They are regular human beings who find faith in some students and go home and scream about how they'd like to strangle others. There is a good point to this movie. I heard some people say that this was trying to be a knock off of DEAD POET'S SOCIETY, but I didn't find that to be the case. Yes, it's at an expensive private boys' school. But there is less to do with the students and more to do with the teacher and his own personal shortcomings. Namely, trusting a student that he shouldn't have trusted. In the end, I liked that this movie proved that there are some people in this world who are never going to be redeemed. Some people were born a**holes and always will be a**holes. The other thing that it points out is that while we're so focused on the a**holes and their implications in the world at large, the majority of the people out there existing are normal and usually rather decent people as a whole. My MAJOR gripe with this flick is the same for any movie that decides to make a large time gap and then doesn't go the distance in making sure that everyone ages appropriately. The guys in the end should have all been 43 years old and they appeared to be everything from 28-40 in appearance. I also hated the fact that they didn't really age Embeth Davidtz at all. She's pretty and all, but there's no way that b*tch would hold up that well after 25 years. Hell, they aged Klein like crazy, didn't they? Call me a stickler, stuff like that really gets on my nerves. Plus, with the focus being more on the teacher and less on the students, coupled with the fact that while Klein is a good actor, he still can't save a losing character, there isn't much to like about the other players in this flick, mainly due to their lack of screentime and minimal character development. So... I would call this a solid C+. Not bad, not great. email this review to a friend
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