Diagonaldi Very well executed

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

climbingtiger957 Big fan of British horror so really interested in having a look at this one. Its dry and predictable, scenes stretched out to fill in the time, constant flashbacks, 3 minute scene of a girl smoking a fag and lots more the same .ok its not terrible,but it is drawn out .basically 2 teenage lads get there whats for after being a nuisance and basically horrible and one of there tutors set out for revenge .theres a lot of life scenes drawn out in black and white clips with depressing music dripping on in the back.to sum it up I really wouldn't bother because if you're not depressed you bloody will be after watchin this.

sjalkarjadottir Firstly .. this is torture porn! Its not revernge horror/gore, its about the torture..Now, the movie itself has its ups and downs .. more downs though. The main story is simple .. but obscured by a totally unnecessary sideplot and relationship drama that adds little to nothing.With that said, in my opinion .. this movie could have benefitted TREMENDOULY from removing this sideplot entirely .. and cutting runtime to a brief 1 hour .. cause i venture to say that the "joy" of the movie comes from the mainplot alone and not some overcoming of an abusive relationship.So .. the main plot; taking revenge on students that .. by all means .. seem to "deserve it" .. students with no redeeming quality. So far, so good. The problem i had with this movie is that the teacher just wasnt a very good teacher. (speaking from the perspective of being a teacher myself) He certainly came across as idealistic and enthusiastic .. but not a good teacher. The students on the other hand came across as just a bit "too rude" .. considering the portrait demographic, such behaviour is VERY hard to imagine .. (although i am not familiar with the english demographic that well, but when i compare it to the nordic education, such student behaviour is simply in the realm of fantasy)There was a lot of blood .. but not that much gore as most scenes that would "show" gore tended to obscure the actual wounding. So you are left with the acting (not too bad). Actually, i liked the performance of all the main cast .. although not too demanding, i would think .. it was still well done.I cannot quite recommend this movie, because of the utterly boring sideplot that creates long periods of boredom in the movie .. and the rather unsatisfactory ending.

lavatch With the gratuitous violence, it is difficult to understand what is the message of "The Lesson." The film began as a realistic domestic drama about family dysfunction and juvenile delinquency. It then lapsed into the horror genre with grotesque and virtually nauseating violence.Each of the male characters in this film was unsympathetic. Only the women's roles tended to refute the thesis of William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies," which seems at the heart of the filmmaker's concept. In that novel, the bestial nature of a group of young British schoolboys emerges when they must co-exist on a deserted island.In "The Lesson," a formerly idealistic English teacher takes revenge on his recalcitrant and foul-mouthed students through the long scene that comprises his lesson on Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau, Milton's epic "Paradise Lost," the Romantic critics, and Charlotte Brönte's "Jane Eyre."The most interesting character in the film was not the teacher, but Mia, who becomes the heroine when she shows compassion for her young step brother who did not return home. But the odd final scene compromises her strong character with a surprising plot twist.It was obvious that the screenwriter had a good handle on modern literature. The most clever moment occurs when Mia determines to keep in her possession one of the demented teacher's books, the 1966 novel "Wild Saragossa Sea" by Dominican author Jean Rhys. This is a postmodernist sequel to Brönte's "Jane Eyre" built around the secondary character of the Bertha Mason, the "madwoman in the attic" of the home of Rochester. Of course, the name Berta Mason was the correct answer given to the mad instructor's question, and her response was what saved Mia's life while she was a hostage.It is tempting to borrow one of the terms of the English teacher and suggest that "The Lesson" is filled with irony. But that would be far too great praise for this muddled and overly violent film.

troublesometasha13 OK, for the record I HATE giving bad reviews, I appreciate the fact that real life people have put their all into a film and I feel very cruel when I can find nothing decent to say about it..... however this is possibly one of the worst movies I have ever sat through and I would like to help someone, somewhere from wasting their time watching it too. It's the kind of movie that if you happened to be one of the cast you wouldn't even tell your mates, you wouldn't want anyone to know you were in it! The start is so slow! It follows two "naughty" lads around for an age that I almost forgot we were watching a movie about a physio teacher plotting revenge! The acting from the bad boys was absolutely tragic! The second they started speaking I knew it wasn't going to be a great movie, but as the boys were already ticking me off at that point I persevered watching as I wanted to see them reach a grizzly end! Lol. Getting to that was painful though... why is it these bad movies are always filled with bad sexual humour?! Shouting "skank... have you been to a STD clinic recently" is something a bottom feeder would think up to put into a film! Clearly whoever thought up lines like that has the experience themselves to be "skanky"!! Anyway **yawnnnnn** several hours later (or so it felt) the teacher eventually gets the boys locked in a torture area, he's got them tied up, ducked taped, all the boxes are starting to be ticked.... then it turns out all he wants to do is teach them a lesson... like an English lesson?! umm what, why?! Who thought watching a teacher teach children would make a good horror movie?! Basically all the teacher does is hit them with a hammer a few times if they answer wrong, one guy does get shot with a nail gun but it's hardly gripping scenes and again the acting is tragic!! To sum up one of the worst films of all time! Don't quit your day jobs guys and please don't attempt to make a sequel, occasionally English films throw up something spectacular and its movies like this that give English films a bad name!!