It was a original experience watching this film unfold, and before I gave it a second viewing with the commentary (in which they stated numerous times how they wanted this film to be like no other high school film prior) I was already feeling like I had impartial watched a very different kind of teen film. But really advantageous.

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The theme was best described on the camouflage art with “Rushmore meets Usual Suspects”. The epic follows these twenty-somethings playing teens as they traverse their existence at a private high school. Bruce Willis plays excellently his over-the-top self as the militaristic considerable. Mischa Barton fills the role as the hot girl on campus, but she did mighty better overall in Closing the Ring than here. Regardless of the props and older looking feel, this actually takes status in point to day, but kudos to the crew in making a teen film exist without unusual appliances (cells, unique computers, etc.) . Some outstanding supporting performances from Michael Rapaport and Josh Pais compliment some solid writing and storytelling. But mostly, this will benefit bring Reece Thompson’s name to the spotlight as he gave a very believable performance carrying the central character (nerd turns favorite turns scapegoat turns becoming a man) .

The supplements are somewhat thorough and center on scenes, but no documentaries. Includes:

* 5:40 minutes of alternate opening scenes. For what the ruin result was, I am overjoyed they chop these as they both revealed too noteworthy information about what would become the residence twists later.

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* 20:35 minutes of extended and alternate scenes. The account lines they removed actually execute it a better film with more engaging twists, but it was composed nice to leer what they had filmed originally.

* 6:45 minutes of deleted scenes, decent but forgettable.

* Commentary by the writers and director (some of the previous features listed have an optional commentary also) . They had a spacious time making the commentary, and since there is no making-of it was the only procedure to hear how everything came to be. I had to wait 23 minutes into it to hear why the film looks like it could recall plot in the 80s but wasn’t. All of the anecdotes and humor late the scenes do the listen worthwhile – it definitely had customers paying attention to what was playing with some of their rogue dialogue.

Four stars for the film, one for the supplements. Not a mainstream high school film by any means, honest a solid independent attempt at creating a surreal world of this private high school.

Although a considerable break at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this film did not relish a ragged theatrical release due the its distributor, The Yari Film Group, filing for bankruptcy. Given all the CGI as a replacement for a decent screenplay garbage that Hollywood does manage to shove into theaters, one almost feels the pang of some cosmic injustice on behalf of film’s creative team and performers. Fortunately, Assassination of a High School President has garnered enough of a following to prevent it from slipping through the cracks.

What impressed me most was the screenplay! And what impressed me most about the screenplay were the character arcs of the leading actor and actress, Reece Daniel Thompson and Mischa Barton. The broken-down writes for the school newspaper, doesn’t fit into any of the many social cliques surrounding him, and whose greatest strength, an unyeilding sense of ambition, becomes his greatest weakness. In addition to her beauty, the latter is also smart, poised, and real. She knows well the stature she holds and what that stature can avail her, but she doesn’t seem all that keen in exploiting it.

In order to distinguish himself from the other members of the school paper Bobby Funke must become more than a speed of the mill reporter, he must become an investigative journalist. At first, fair to distinguish himself for a shot at a summer journalism scholarship, but, later, to distinct the name of someone he has personally indicted with his writing. While the slack John Hughes made youth-focused films that connected with a young audience in very specific ways, this film is a satire in every moment of its existence. The indispensable in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was courageous to the point of unwarranted silliness, but here Bruce Willis portrays a potent and considerable important of this private Catholic school. One would probably laugh AT the stale, but we laugh with the latter and do so impartial a itsy-bitsy bit nervously. While Bruce Willis was the catalyst to obtain me to view at this film in the first set, his role is strictly supportive. It is a testament to his skills as an actor to maximize all the itsy-bitsy opportunities for both spoken and physical comedy that indicate themselves without upstaging the storyline or the cast he is supporting.

If I have one complaint, it would be that there wasn’t a single dismal and white scene in the film. Everytime Funke holds his stick of chewing gum like Sam Spade would absorb a cigarette before taking a puff the film honest screams noir. The timelessness of the set-dressing and wardrobe are all there, but I honest wish there could have been one dark and white scene somewhere as an homage to archaic film noir.

Of the bonus features, the most mighty would be the running commentary. I normally have mixed feelings about most deleted scenes, but here there are a couple of scenes that were a proper sacrifice to have to leave on the cutting room floor (this is especially fair for anyone familiar with even a rudimentary amount of Spanish) . A making of featurette would have been nice, but, given all the financial challenges this project eventually met with, I’m impartial pleased it has managed to seek the light of day.

I don’t normally write reviews of movies since there are plenty who already do so and do so well, but Assassination of a High School President has encountered more than it’s pleasing part obstacles and setbacks. If you’re looking for a stark departure from the cookie-cutter formula of most high school films, then this is the heed.
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