Good editing; cinematography of the clock appeared to be an homage to High Noon and was well executed.
Started out promising with some cool sequences and what was interesting is they did in fact get to fight in the end. In that sense it delivered! There wasn't a cop-out: didn't fight in the end with some lame plot excuse.
The movie would have been better if Buddy's character wasn't so one-dimensional. He was reading and knew math, but it would have been even better if they took that idea to more of an extreme and showed him to be a bit of Good-Will-Hunting-type-genius, so we had a reason to look up to him as a person of some talent. There was also no backstory to him. For instance, how did everyone in the school have opinions of Buddy before he stepped foot in the school? This was not explained nor justified.
But the lamest part of all was the next day after the fight in the school store. The students come to save the day by buying sheets of white paper for one dollar a pop (is that enough?). They all just collectively decided this like a lame-ass low budget Disney TV movie cliché. Why not instead have his male and female friend go around the school collecting money to save the store? Whereby, a students says, "sure, I can give five bucks, Jerry works there". And others throw money in during that sequence. The less is more approach.
And finally, the lower budget nature of the flick meant they never licensed decent popular songs. Often these high school teenage movies live or die by the soundtrack. This one died.
Started out promising with some cool sequences and what was interesting is they did in fact get to fight in the end. In that sense it delivered! There wasn't a cop-out: didn't fight in the end with some lame plot excuse.
The movie would have been better if Buddy's character wasn't so one-dimensional. He was reading and knew math, but it would have been even better if they took that idea to more of an extreme and showed him to be a bit of Good-Will-Hunting-type-genius, so we had a reason to look up to him as a person of some talent. There was also no backstory to him. For instance, how did everyone in the school have opinions of Buddy before he stepped foot in the school? This was not explained nor justified.
But the lamest part of all was the next day after the fight in the school store. The students come to save the day by buying sheets of white paper for one dollar a pop (is that enough?). They all just collectively decided this like a lame-ass low budget Disney TV movie cliché. Why not instead have his male and female friend go around the school collecting money to save the store? Whereby, a students says, "sure, I can give five bucks, Jerry works there". And others throw money in during that sequence. The less is more approach.
And finally, the lower budget nature of the flick meant they never licensed decent popular songs. Often these high school teenage movies live or die by the soundtrack. This one died.