I’m halfway through this laughably implausible piece of shit. This movie takes itself sooooo seriously, all somber score and intense acting performances, as if it doesn’t realize that a thriller about an evil mastermind high school student who apparently has the whole world cowering in terror before his evil mechinations to get straight A’s would be totally absurd even if every scene didn’t seem so thoroughly contrived and unrealistic. Like sure, a nice girl would act like a slut and try to come on to her teacher just because she was told by an evil genius classmate that the teacher was into her, and then, when the teacher absolutely rejects her, let the classmate dictate a love letter for her to give him that will change his mind which, just coincidentally, also happens to read exactly like a suicide note. Or, sure, a teachers wife would never, ever question why a student of her husband would randomly call her landline at home during the day to casually ask how the teach is doing and casually drop that he’s “out sick” when he’s at school; nor would she, say, ask the teacher about it, especially after the teacher tells her a kid at school is blackmailing him. This film wants this kid to be as intense as Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct” but the plot devices are about as believable as, I dunno, The Muppet Movie. Seriously, this is like a TV movie, and not a good one, but with the intensity knob dialed up to feature film level. It gets almost bad enough to be a camp cult favorite. Kinda. Alllllmost.
