The Lesson

2015

Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 22% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 22% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.3/10 10 1688 1.7K

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Plot summary

Two schoolboy delinquents learn a lesson that they will never forget when a teacher at the end of his tether decides to abduct them.

Director

Ruth Platt Photo
Ruth Platt

Top cast

Joshua Wedge Photo
Joshua Wedge as Eddie
Rory Coltart Photo
Rory Coltart as Joel
Michael Swatton Photo
Michael Swatton as Fin's Father
Michaela Prchalová Photo
Michaela Prchalová as Mia
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800.61 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.52 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by sjalkarjadottir 3 / 10

sometimes more is too much...

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.
Reviewed by Stevieboy666 3 / 10

A very boring Lesson

English teacher Mr Gale snaps and take revenge on the wayward yobs that torment him in class. This starts off as a reasonably interesting coming of age drama before suddenly plunging into torture porn. Sadly this is where it all goes downhill for the next hour or so. Yes, there is some gore, but it's certainly no Hostel. The problem is that the film tries to be smart, having the psychotic Mr Gale question his victims on the English dictionary & literature, and what it all means. This just seems to go on for ever & the temptation to hit the FFWD button was great! Could've have been better, certainly has a running time that is way too long. Apparently this British film had a budget of £5,700.000 but looks like one with a couple of noughts less. Disappointing & boring.
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