Waste of time

Disappointment for a huge fan!

Absolutely amazing

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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.

This literally felt like a film school mesh of style and (now) old-school torture porn. Don't get me wrong; the movie was well-made and shot, but it seemed like a bunch of ideas (Look at what I can do!) all edited together with the bulk of Angry Teacher thrown in for the majority of the substance.Is there a message here? Are there characters that you can stand behind? Can anyone really learn a lesson here? If you answered YES to any of those questions…I'm gonna nail gun you so hard nouns will spill out of your bloody orifice! And now. For your homework…find a more cohesive movie to watch.

Man! Talk about a bore fest! I haven't been this bored since timeout in Kindergarten. You all know the story - a psycho teacher decides to teach two of his misbehaving students a lesson even though only one of the students was a miscreant. The other was just having a bad go at life living with his overbearing, obnoxious older brother.Truth be told, he should've been teacher the other misbehaving students in his class "The Lesson." Better still, if after 20 years of hating teaching, why didn't he just move on to something else, like sweeping streets or filing papers in an office somewhere? By the way, the two students in his torture chamber we're being taught "The Lesson," we in the audience are! What did we learn from "The Lesson" boys and girls? We learned to stay clear away from artsy- fartsy preaching, moralizing films because they will bore you to death.

If Ken Loach had ever produced a horror film, it would have looked very much like 'The Lesson'. This is a hugely thought provoking film whose portrayal of horror goes so much further and deeper than the scenes of violence. The film is firmly grounded in the real world, our world, with real people dealing with real issues. For the hard core chain saw massacre viewer, the film may take a while to get to the 'horror' scenes - but for me, the horror started from the moment the film began as we witness the appalling way people treat each other and how horrifically society fails them. Ultimately it is hard to say who is the monster and who the victim- in fact the most stomach churning scenes for me involved the domestic violence. Having said that Robert Hands is outstanding as the teacher. His mercurial performance is totally empathetic and mesmeric - at one moment terrifying , the next pathetic. Sign of a great film for me is that it makes you think as you watch it, it makes you think as you discuss it afterwards and it is still making you think days later. This film does that with knobs on.