In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The international success of Australian films are very low, due to the very much lack of talent with both directors and actors. But then 2:37 came along. At first glimpse the plot is very much clichéd and nothing we haven't seen done before. High school students, with their own problems, moaning about their 'sad' and 'awful' lives. And you can already guess that they will be portrayed by actors in their late twenties, with as good acting skills as your next door neighbour's cat. However, the acting is truly superb, it's terrifyingly believable and honest (Teresa Palmer especially surprised me). Characters develop throughout the film, and prove they are more than one dimensional. The plot is more than enough to keep you interested, as well as guessing. The structure is inventive and provides you with a good narrative of the characters. A huge well done to the actors who in all fairness didn't have much of a great script to work with. The look of the film was also quite disappointing, as it did have a 'school media project' vibe going on. All in all, I'd recommend it. It's a really good film with true emotions, despite the fact it is emotional intense all the way through (and I mean ALL the way through!) the ending is worth the wait, and the acting speaks for itself. Give it a go, I can guarantee you'll be surprised, who knows you might shed a tear...

2:37 It was really effectual film and I can say that it was the only film that effects me too much. The director of the film Murali K. Thalluri was born in 1984 and this is really a big chance to recognize a young film director. I read something that the film tells a part of director's life. Film scans a group student's a day in their life. Film's best part was last scenes. Last scenes answer the question that "WHO". At the end, we know all the characters and know their all details and because of that aspect we think that what is going to be to other ones. The film was showed in Cannes Film Festival and everybody stood, clapped the film and continued along 17 minutes. The character that I have hated is Marcus. Because he raped his sister and it is really irritating and makes lots of people angry. He is a delinquent but this is not only his criminal but also his parents. Delivering a baby doesn't mean being good father or mother. Every children needs an guidance or leading some body to him. His sister Mel and Marcus they are both forlorn. Marcus did the worst thing in the world and it is unacceptable and unforgettable.

Sometimes all of us may think that we have many problems in our life and we may think we are the most unlucky human in the world. After i watched this film my opinion has changed. At the end of the film, indicating the reality of the film is really impressed me. That is why my opinion has changed.At the beginning of the film, they let you know there is a suicide and then the film tells you about the six teenagers and their psychological problems and you want to learn who is the suicided. It makes this film more enjoyable and it makes sensation.There is a girl who helps everyone. She is the most lively person. You may think she is the person who has the least psychological problems but unexpectedly she commit suicide. I think she commit suicide because of being ignored and unnoticed. That is really unguessable ending.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, et al., tried to present American high school as a la-de-da-da musical experience in the ANDY HARDY bushel of movies. Though life did not turn out to be a bowl of cherries for either of these stars, that did not prevent tons of subsequent high-school-is-such-a-happy-place, we-all-have-to-sing fairy tales including GREASE, FOOTLOOSE, HAIRSPRAY, the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL trilogy, the current GLEE television series, ad infinitum from being foisted upon the public. Just as millions of high school football concussions go a long way toward producing an all-volunteer military, thousands of singing 20-somethings posing as teenagers lull parents who have repressed their own prep memories into thinking maybe school ain't so bad nowadays. Conversely, high school as one big party was epitomized with FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF in 1986 (perhaps to ease the minds of parents realistic enough to admit their kids can't carry a tune). However, many kids would rather "play" in Jigsaw's torture warehouse than attend their assigned high school. From the twisted societal pigeon-holing that messed up Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty's characters in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961), to the horror show director Richard Kelly placed DONNIE DARKO in (2001), or the Columbine re-imagining Gus Van Zant accomplished with ELEPHANT (2003) and subsequent effort by Vadim Perelman to layer in the futility of youthful religious zealotry with his THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES (2007), it is clear that high school is more something that happens to you, as opposed to something you can control (as in Andy Hardy's unrealistic refrain "let's put on a show" to solve every problem, or the implausibly unpunished charmed lives led by Ferris Bueller's ilk).In the masterful 2:37, director Murali K. Thalluri consciously adopts Van Zant's story-telling style to show the underside of high school life "Down Under." Accurately portraying high school as a cesspool of hypocrisy and callousness where children are finishing the job of transforming themselves from comparatively innocent short people who tell it like it is into the self-centered liars society expects them to become by graduation day, 2:37 deftly reinforces the notion that it's the quiet ones you have to look out for.