This will suffer from comparisons to Brick, but I actually think it's the better film. Reece Thompson is an aspiring journalist who rises to popularity after exposing SAT cheating in school, however could he himself be being manipulated?

There is a great cameo by Bruce Willis as the school principal. The film looks great, and the script is witty without being overly hip. Reece Thompson could be the new John Cusack. There's a killer soundtrack as well.

You ever get the feeling that you want to watch BRICK, but then you realize that BRICK's a really demanding and complex film and decide instead to watch a shitty BRICK knock-off that exchanges the care and cleverness for bland, liveless Marlowisms, no sense of tone, a completely misplaced sense of humor, a boring mystery, awful acting and just general laziness and lack of passion?

Because if so, I have a movie for you.

If you wanna watch, I don't know, a GOOD movie, then you can pick just pretty much anything else and it'll be better than this.

I'd never heard about this film before I sat down to watch it on Netflix, and it is absolute sublime.

It's a high school noir that feels like the bastard child of LA Confidential and Disney's Filmore - The actors play their roles well and there are a few twists that I didn't quite see coming, particularly the last section with the bathtub. That was kinda gross.

If you like Noir and you can have a chuckle then this could be for you, and the analogies to real life are all present and correct, if not a tiny bit clumsy in places [the white armed hall monitors styled as military police didn't sit right with me..]. Highly recommended.

This was a suprisingly enjoyable movie. The plot was very interesting and the characters believable. And the character of Funke acted just as I'd imagine a high school journalist would. It wasn't very predictable either, and the twist at the end I found to be surprising.

Not as self indulgent as Brick.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

A bit too predictable, but the overall tone of jokingly taking itself too seriously really worked for me, there's some juxtapositions that worked great. Fun to watch but not particularly memorable.

I'd never heard about this film before I sat down to watch it on Netflix, and it is absolute sublime.

It's a high school noir that feels like the bastard child of LA Confidential and Disney's Filmore - The actors play their roles well and there are a few twists that I didn't quite see coming, particularly the last section with the bathtub. That was kinda gross.

If you like Noir and you can have a chuckle then this could be for you, and the analogies to real life are all present and correct, if not a tiny bit clumsy in places [the white armed hall monitors styled as military police didn't sit right with me..]. Highly recommended.

This film seemed like it was trying to be a comedic version of Brick and it failed miserably. It wasn't funny, it wasn't clever, and it wasn't even really that entertaining. I felt nothing for the main character. He was really quite boring.
It had Mischa Barton, Melonie Diaz, and Bruce Willis and I still managed to dislike it.

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Snappy dialogue elevates this high school comedy

This was a suprisingly enjoyable movie. The plot was very interesting and the characters believable. And the character of Funke acted just as I'd imagine a high school journalist would. It wasn't very predictable either, and the twist at the end I found to be surprising.

You ever get the feeling that you want to watch BRICK, but then you realize that BRICK's a really demanding and complex film and decide instead to watch a shitty BRICK knock-off that exchanges the care and cleverness for bland, liveless Marlowisms, no sense of tone, a completely misplaced sense of humor, a boring mystery, awful acting and just general laziness and lack of passion?

Because if so, I have a movie for you.

If you wanna watch, I don't know, a GOOD movie, then you can pick just pretty much anything else and it'll be better than this.

Not as self indulgent as Brick.

Fan-fucking-tastic.