Extracurricular Activities

Never having heard of this movie before and then just runnung across it on Prime Video, I watched the trailer and then decided to watch the movie. It is by no means a deep, arthouse kind of movie. Thank goodness! It was fun, funny and had a great twist at the end. I very much enjoyed it because it was just a movie that had plenty of great actors I have seen in other series and movies.

The whole story is much like death note. But what i loved is how good is the contract killing highschool kid. He's unbelievable as a protagonist. The movie had potential to be something amazing but they ended it hastily. Overall i liked it.

The whole film I had a strong feeling that the author deliberately underestimate the detective's working and thinking abilities(and with the background of the fact that he closed some complicated case in the past, it is completely stupid), and deliberately overestimate the "genius and elusiveness" of the villain... The film did not seem to tell the story of the confrontation, but embodied someone's(the author's?) fantasies about "tough bad guys". Bad and poor quality work.

This is a great little find on Amazon Prime. This really could have been a series, as it is a great dark commedy. There really is no violence as the murder of the parents is off screen and they likely dererved it as was the case with Dexter. Good acting and highly entertaining. Collin Ford has a big career in front of him - I picked out Brad Pitt 30 years ago in a small film called "Across the Tracks" - before Thelma and Louise - I think this guy is the next breakthrough actor.

This was a fun film with a very well written script that will keep you entertained till the very end. The plot was simple and the acting was excellent. Even though some scenes were sort of predictable there was enough twists and turns to keep it smart and interesting. Definitely worth a watch as I rated it a solid 7, for very fair.

Excellent dark comedy and awesome Colin Ford! So pity, that most people don't understand dark humor and espesially young dark humor and all hints which movie creators left behind the action.

That would probably best describe Extracurricular Activities, a (kinda) dark comedy revolving around a high school kid named Reagan (Colin Ford, of Under the Dome) who helps "assist" some of his fellow students who have problems with their parents. This raises the attention of a police detective (Timothy Simons) at the scene of deadly accidents who puts two and two together- he thinks- and soon is the only one convinced the student is up to no good. Ford and Simons pretty much are the main reason to check this out, the same way that Bueller and Ed Rooney were perfect antagonists in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". One issue- some of the secondary characters are either too earnest (Reagan's parents) or appear to be ungrateful.

Parents are the worst and they're dying in various accidents. Police detective Cliff Dawkins (Timothy Simons) suspects that high school student Reagan Collins (Colin Ford) is orchestrating the deaths. His investigation gets him into trouble and he recruits cheerleader Mary Alice Walker (Ellie Bamber) to help. Cliff is too angry and Reagan is too cold. Neither are rooting material. Neither are compelling characters. Quite frankly, win, lose, or draw or anything else would be fine by me. At least, I want Reagan to have fun. He could Christian Slater this psycho killer character. As for Cliff, he's more annoying than anything. He is a great detective on one hand and a complete idiot on the other. The Sam character is a million times worst. The only way to make that guy work is to make it funny. He is not funny. There isn't much comedy that works in this one. It would help if Cliff dials back his arrogant anger a bit. It would also help if the cops are not all idiots. The first story plot issue is revealing Reagan's criminality too early. By holding it off until Cliff starts investigating, there can be some additional tension of whether Reagan is actually guilty or innocent. At the end of the day, neither lead character appeals to me which does not pull me into the story.