The Education of Fredrick Fitzell

Based on the acting I would have given a higher rating, you can't fault the cast. Dylan O'Brien does a great job.

The direction, storytelling was just convoluted and messy. It was trying to be smart and artistic but just didn't pull it off. A similar story that has been done better in other movies.

I was really only half paying attention to this film until it absolutely stopped making sense, at which point I rewound a little bit and watched until the end.

They do a pretty good job of revealing the intent and meaning of the film - spoon-feeding it, really, at about the 3/4 mark, and then the rest settles into place even though it remains disjointed and non-linear (which is, actually, the whole point).

It wasn't until the credits rolled that I wanted to do that slow golf clap.

And then I immediately restarted it and watched every moment, learning that there was important information in every scene and every line that made it much more logical, once you understand why those things are important.

I highly recommend watching it twice. Brilliant job. I hope to see more from MacBride.

Don't pay attention to the bad reviews. If you like mindf@#$ movies like Donnie Darko, Butterfly Affect, Equilibrium, Trainspotting etc.. This definitely fits the bill! Your not supposed to completely understand it and that's what makes it great.

It's definitely a movie that will make u think, but there's so many things that you just get lost (while thinking) and try to figure out what's going on. There are some good elements in this movie: dark atmosphere, the story, Merc.

But somehow all of that makes your mind blow up. You don't understand what's reality and what's illusion. Yeah of course, movies that are unclear makes u think about it and u want to discuss it, in a good way, but after watching this, you be like "what was that"?

But still, it gets more and more interesting when you get to the middle. As some crazy thing are begin to happen. But again, when it gets closer to the end, that's where everything goes crazy, like I don't know what.

Im definitely not hating this movie but it could've been so much better. I would recommend it to people, but only to those who really watch and think while watching the movies.

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