The Student

THE STUDENT is poorly written, poorly acted, poorly shot, and just plain boring. Never, even once, is any performance in this movie ever truly felt, so I didn't feel it either. The law students depicted are perhaps the worst, most inept potential attorneys ever, and legal principles are grossly misrepresented and/or misunderstood. God save us from the products of this law school.

This is a crappy, annoying movie with unlikable, unbelievable characters you won't care about. Spare yourself.

The movie overall was a little better than I thought it would be, however it was slightly predictable as this sort of story line has been covered before.

This is a bad and cheap TV movie. I thought I was watching a Russian film with the same title but it was this one. The script is just terrible. An example, it opens with the first day of class at the university. The professor asks a question and the student answers it perfectly. So the professor tells him "I hope you're not one of those who relies on his good looks and charm to pass*. Like this it has many other memorable moments that actually had me bursting out laughing.

At no point does the movie try to be good. It's presented as what it is. So you know crazy things will happen and actually have fun sitting through them. I must say one of the few good things of the movie was the lead actress. She was able to keep a straight face through the script and act like this could actually happen.

Acting,story,directing are all atrocious. Very unconvincing and poorly directed.

Like reading a story in Ellery Queen's mystery magazine, not Shakespeare, but entertaining none the less.

As is the usual, there are moments that stretch belief, but hey, it's just a TV movie, so just enjoy it as such.

Michael Blake does a good job as the villain...good looking with an icy cold stare. If I was a teacher and had a student like him, I'd switch professions!