I'm very conflicted about this one. I was leaning negative for the vast majority of the movie, but around the last ten minutes, much of the movie redeems itself. Prior to that, it's a seriously bizarre movie.
The primary problem is in the writing. Nearly every character is a caricature, and the writing plays out with dialogue that is completely unbelievable. While almost every character talks like a stereotype, that can't work if they all do it. This just made things boring. And it wasn't just their dialogue. Sprinkled throughout the movie, there are flashbacks to some of the incidents that landed them in detention. All of them are unbelievable.
There are loads of references to The Breakfast Club, which could have provided an interesting foundation. I haven't cared for The Breakfast Club in a long time, but it might have been interesting to see something that was a little more like an anti-Breakfast Club. I thought that's where this was going, but… nope.
Everything else about the movie alternated between being interesting and seeming like a nonsensical change of direction. Most of the time, I had no sense of why characters were acting in any particular way, or what motivated any of them to take specific actions.
The ending is a nice series of twists, only one of which I saw coming. The problem with the twist was that it was still built on a foundation of unbelievable events.
Who knows if I'll remember it. At least it was nice to see Judd Nelson.
This was based on a comic, and I wonder if it works better in that medium.
Also, the sound was a pain to listen to. A lot of dialogue mixed too quiet against loud music.
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