Extracurricular Activities

This one is a light hearted black comedy if those two descriptions can go together. Clever with a decent twist that I certainly hadn't anticipated. So happy we abandoned Wreck It Ralph II after 10 minutes to watch this instead.

I had heard nothing about this film apart from the few reviews here. This was a REALLY pleasant surprise. A lighthearted & darkish (if not black) comedy of sorts, without the usual irritating teens. The young people portrayed here were really likeable, the acting from all involved was above par, and the writer, Bob Saentz, is very talented.

I thought the acting of Timothy Simons who plays Detective Cliff Dawkins was particularly good. Lots of subtle character quirks.

I highly recommend this very entertaining movie & am really surprised I haven't heard more about it. I rate it an easy 8.5/10.

The idea is good so is the acting wish it was a little darker and a little less predictable but well worth a watch

That would probably best describe Extracurricular Activities, a (kinda) dark comedy revolving around a high school kid named Reagan (Colin Ford, of Under the Dome) who helps "assist" some of his fellow students who have problems with their parents. This raises the attention of a police detective (Timothy Simons) at the scene of deadly accidents who puts two and two together- he thinks- and soon is the only one convinced the student is up to no good.

Ford and Simons pretty much are the main reason to check this out, the same way that Bueller and Ed Rooney were perfect antagonists in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". One issue- some of the secondary characters are either too earnest (Reagan's parents) or appear to be ungrateful.

The whole film I had a strong feeling that the author deliberately underestimate the detective's working and thinking abilities(and with the background of the fact that he closed some complicated case in the past, it is completely stupid), and deliberately overestimate the "genius and elusiveness" of the villain... The film did not seem to tell the story of the confrontation, but embodied someone's(the author's?) fantasies about "tough bad guys". Bad and poor quality work.