The Student

Blake Michael late of the Disney Channel stars in this film which is about as far from the Magic Kingdom as you can get. He's a law student and having a tough time of it. The fact he's also psychotic doesn't help.

Professor Alicia Leigh Willis is flunking him in her ethics course and he can't have it. He's under some great pressure from his mom and stepdad. So Blake embarks on a campaign of terror dredging up her past. She's now teaching law because back in the day she prosecuted a man who was executed and later turned out to be innocent.

What can I say but this is trashy and cheap without any entertainment value. The goofy teen from Dog With A Blog doesn't quite cut it as a psycho.

I expected Stan the talking dog to come in and straighten everything out.

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.

This movie made me angry. It seems to me , that if Professor Willis had come down from her high horse , then maybe Vance could have been given the guidance and attention that he clearly needed , because he was an exceptional student , with great potential .

Instead , she obsessed with him , and focused on her own past experience , which should have taught her a valuable lesson , ( obviously not ), and then perhaps there would not be 2 dead people at the end of this movie .

Just because Vance came from " the wrong side of the tracks " , does not make him a " bad one " , but Professor High and Mighty could not see past her own obsession with " ethics" , and because of her incompetence , Vance's talent was wasted .

Awful film , with a terrible message .

You know how it is, you have a streaming cold and all you can do is rest, gurgle away and watch endless nonsense on the television. This is where I find myself today, plonked in front of the idiot box. I tried searching for this film under the title "Tormenting Abigail" which is the name that it appeared under, on UK television. The only non gurgling activity that I have managed today, is adding this fact under the trivia section!

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!