The Student

Late night watch on Netflix. The plot has been done before...smart, hard working student who needs perfect grades gets a bad grade from a professor/teacher, then proceeds to go psycho. Drama ensues through a battle of wits. The acting is decent, with the student (with the ridiculous name of Vance Van Sickle), teacher, and the dean being the better of them. Escalating and provoking situations happen despite both the protagonist and antagonist being very smart and socially adept. The ending is predictable, but was still thrilling enough to watch. It's not a total waste of time, but it's just a rather empty movie, which is sad because it brought interesting themes of prosecutorial misconduct and unfair imprisonments. Sadly, these themes are just blips on the plot, and thinly applied motivations for characters instead of more deep view of how the characters could have dealt with them. Exploring these motives and character flaws might have made the movie a bit more original.

I liked the movie, but I didn't like the husband or the students mom. The actor in the role of the husband just walked through his part with hardly any emotion. I didn't like the mother (a minor role) she seemed like a pretty messed up person. Two weeks after her husband's funeral she marries his brother. What a *!

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.

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!

She survived at the end. She shouldn't have survived at the end. She was biased towards that guy. She gave him a bad grade because she simply did not like him. Because this is not reality, I was rooting for her to die. I hate professors like her! She is a sucky professor. This movie could have been better developed as well. The actress who plays the professor made the movie worst. She in that role just added more to the unlikeability of the character.