Fantastic!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

In the movie, The Emperor's Club, the base of the story declares a strong sense of character. When we see the boys at the academy, having a phenomenal teacher, everything seems perfect and right. But when Mr. Hundert gets a student who has absolutely no respect for authority, it turns their perfect world upside down. But the way in which the teacher handles the boy is what makes this movie so great and yet so wrong. Instead of judging the student right away, Mr. Hundert takes a step deeper into the boy's world and finds that all his pain is rooted in the relationship with his father. The student does not seem to be able to please his father and cannot find anything to validate who he is as a young man. Mr. Hundert does everything that he can for the student but ultimately he cannot change the boy's heart. This is where I found the movie to imply a false principle. It seems as though after the Mr. Julius Caesar contest, Mr. Hundert just gave up on him. Why did he not keep perusing him? I am a Christian and I guess this is why I have such a problem with the message the movie is sending. Mr. Hundert keeps saying, "I have failed him as a teacher," and then he finds his validations in his students who have had great success in life. It is all rather selfish. Why did he not try to not only help his student but show the student love? As a Christian we are called to love God and love others and to go out and make disciples. This student was basically asking for help in all the ways that he acted. He was starving for attention. We are not called to judge others because we do not know what kind of hurt or pain a person is carrying with them. The way that they are acting is not the issue; the issue is what caused the hurt or pain that they carry. Mr. Hundert attacked how the boy was acting out even though he knew what the root issue was. Instead he should have acted on the pain of the relationship between the boy and his father. Now I know this is just a movie, and I know it does not have a Christian view, but even with Christianity aside the message is wrong. Here we have a leader who cared about his students, who built relationships with them, who gained their trust, and respect, and as great as he was he did fail this student. I believe that when we have moments in life when we have the opportunity to truly care about someone who is hurting so much that no matter what happens we will not give up on them, we will fail every time. This is because we as humans, who are selfish and have a corrupt nature, cannot love someone unconditionally without Jesus Christ leading our lives and living in our hearts. When we make Christ the base for everything that we do and everything that we live for, he lives through us and is able to love people unconditionally. We have no power to change hearts, only God can do that through his son Jesus Christ. So all in all, the movie is good and portrays a message about integrity and character, but when it comes to impacting an individual's life and to mold and shape someone struggling into an individual with true character, the movie gets it wrong. If anything it shows how weak man is without Christ in his life, and how incapable we are to truly love, care, and pour into some ones heart without Christ reigning in our own hearts. But when Christ is in control of our hearts, he gives the power to make huge impacts on people's lives. It is just like the verse, "I can do all things, through Christ who strengthens me."

The Emperor's club was looking to find a way through history for elaborating the History as a word, history makers, historians, and the people that were/are trying to make a tight tie between history makers in all periods of history. As a matter of fact the film is like a small mirror in front of a wide and unlimited mirror so called History that reflects the role and effects of some role players who accidentally or intentionally were there. Their words, families, books, notebooks, friends and even their loves are play a role between these mirrors and you cannot ignore any beams of light that is reflected from. It already begins with portraying the life of an old teacher who has devoted his life to teach the tale of famous and infamous people, their victories and failures and their lifestyle. You are bombarded with his acceptable characters like punctuality, prestige, powerful speaking and kindness. He is not the only subject of this play; there are a plenty of them with whom you will get familiar during the time of watching and be careful maybe you are among them and sometimes in the future your offspring will watch your movie and will consider your destiny as a lesson to be learned. Some of the players are from the past and we can only see their pictures and statues or read /hear something about them, but many are performing in real world and their efforts and studies may have tremendous results in the future. In other words you are expected to judge about the past, now and future. Fortunately the director does not leave you alone and you are provided with many clues and tools to perform a great job, just like other players between the mirrors! The copter which provides a wide view in the beginning and at the end is among them and acts like a time machine to go through the epochs and give you a symbolic wing to fly between them. You are also the passenger of this machine and finally it is you that can judge this story and make a conclusion. Admittedly there will be different conclusions for the same story but you should keep in mind that there was only one story and it can remain in the memory of history forever. There are no exception for human being in the issue of love history so like other stories; there should be a love story but not as clear as a romance movie. Therefore you will sense an undercover love between the learned teacher and a married woman to find out the unfair manner of life and its heartache that has been told in many historical stories before. Among all disciplinary scenes this one challenges the audiences' mind in a different way. Can he make an unexpected change in the life by showing his real love to her? But finally we understand the fact that it is not him who did it but the passing river of life make this change happened that is another role of history in the film. To sum up I got two meaningful lessons from this movie that is: There are not lots of Emperors in the world but there is only one and he has a club that called "Emperor's club". All of us are a member of this club and the member's biographies and their performances are recorded in a big book that called History so try to be a good and active member not a neuter. You have many opportunities in your life. They can succeed or fail. No matter what will happen to them. Do your best to make a better life. Your victories will acknowledge and your failures will avoid.

Kevin Kline is great as Mr William Hundert the History teacher at St Benedicts boys school in the mid 1970s. The film tells how he tries to help a new pupil Sedgewick Bell(Emile Hirsch)get used to the school life and help him improve his grades in class he messes around a lot and Hundert makes it his mission almost to help him change.However Mr Hundert focuses on Sedgewick and sort of neglects the other students.The ending is very moving as in the present day Hundert is invited to the older Sedgewick Bells country club to meet up with Bell and his other former students and learns a sad truth about Bell and finds out if he has changed or not.The scenes between Bell and Hundert are good but I love the scenes at the end with him and all the other students. This film doesn't bring anything new to the teacher student genre but is a well made and enjoyable film about history,success and failure.

This movie is not one of the better titles that Kevin Kline has been a part of during his illustrious career. Kevin Kline has consistently shown his audience his deftness and his uncanny ability to get inside of a character and make it his own. The Emperor's Club is an okay movie that Kevin Kline keeps from going down the drain. One of the key factors in rating a movie or a performance to me is, what happens when the main character is off camera? Does the movie still move along? Am I eager to see the character again? Watch this movie with that in mind. Watch a fish called Wanda the same way. Or watch Wild Wild West. Kevin Kline simply shines through in every possible way.