This is, in fairly broad terms, an urban paranoia/psychological thriller featuring a hugely cunning and resourceful high school student seeking revenge on a hapless teacher.
The overriding feature of this movie is the ability of Sam, the teacher, to make bad decisions. If it's possible for him to make a bad decision, he makes a bad decision. If it's impossible for him to make a bad decision, he still makes a bad decision. Even if no decisions are involved at all, he manages to make a bad - nay, even more diastrously bad than usual - decision. This guy takes stupid to a level seldom seen before on screen. We sat there open mouthed at the non-stop stupidity on display until we realised that this guy was never going to make a not-stupid decision. Then we had a contest, trying to predict the bad decisions before he made them. We fell short much of the time, but we had a LOT of laughs in the process.
To compound the felony, Sam is played by Chris Klein, a good looking man whose American Pie performance got by on two expressions - "I'm cheerful," and "Duh, what's going on?" The latter is used her to excess, joined at the end when the you-know-what hits the fan by expression number 3, "Someone just broke wind, and it's a bad one."
Also, Sam approaches plumbing work with a hammer. When water unsurprisingly sprays everywhere, his reaction is, "Perhaps we should call a plumber." Stupd, stupid, stupid.
This is not a good film, but we did get laughter from it for all the wrong reasons.
The overriding feature of this movie is the ability of Sam, the teacher, to make bad decisions. If it's possible for him to make a bad decision, he makes a bad decision. If it's impossible for him to make a bad decision, he still makes a bad decision. Even if no decisions are involved at all, he manages to make a bad - nay, even more diastrously bad than usual - decision. This guy takes stupid to a level seldom seen before on screen. We sat there open mouthed at the non-stop stupidity on display until we realised that this guy was never going to make a not-stupid decision. Then we had a contest, trying to predict the bad decisions before he made them. We fell short much of the time, but we had a LOT of laughs in the process.
To compound the felony, Sam is played by Chris Klein, a good looking man whose American Pie performance got by on two expressions - "I'm cheerful," and "Duh, what's going on?" The latter is used her to excess, joined at the end when the you-know-what hits the fan by expression number 3, "Someone just broke wind, and it's a bad one."
Also, Sam approaches plumbing work with a hammer. When water unsurprisingly sprays everywhere, his reaction is, "Perhaps we should call a plumber." Stupd, stupid, stupid.
This is not a good film, but we did get laughter from it for all the wrong reasons.