The Riot Club

I've never seen the play on which this film is based, but if it is close to the film in content, I don't think I would have liked it either.There's a group of young Oxford(esque) boys who are members (new and old) of this very ancient "dinner" club called the Riot Club. They are all from the "BEST" families - and if you have to ask how to join, then you will not be asked to join - very exclusive - only 10 members each year.Apparently, the point of the club is to be as nasty and cruel as possible, while looking down your nose at the "lesser" people, all the while acting like the most reprehensible, low delinquents.It IS possible that this would play better in England or the Ivy League US schools are - but I don't think so. I'm not sure what the point of the film is. It focuses on these "pretty" boys with platinum heritage, but who are ridiculously portrayed as contemptuous of anyone outside of their own inner circle. ( Think "The Skulls" without the promise of enhanced privilege. These guys are already privileged and seem to just be anarchists for the sake of anarchy and outrageous at the expense of hard working people.)There is no build-up and no resolution. None of these boys are shown to be worthy of our time, emotionally and certainly not worthy of concern/care for their situations.There is ever so slight of a hint that one of the boys doesn't like what it happening, but that is never explored.The message of the film seems to be that the privileged go unchecked and can get out of any kind of trouble.Do we really need a film to tell us that such is the case? We know that is true.

I could tell this was based on a play but was surprised to learn it was by a British playwrite. The idea that this is what Oxford is like or how rich or British pale act is laughable. It's like A Clockwork Orange if it was written by Stephanie Meyer dreaming about going to college at Oxford and being in a secret society. There certainly are societies. Some of them have certainly hired sex workers. Otherwise this comes across like a US American teen telling you what they think it's like. Don't worry it's not. If you'd like to see an (ironically) far more realistic portrayal I suggest the movie "Tolkien".Beyond that the series of events was disjointed and preposterous. Characters need motivations in their actions of some sort. There is no background offered. There's no twist that explains it. It's just someone out of their depth talking about the rich baddies as through they somehow do not need motivations.I'm not sure if any of the across were British either but some of the attempts were so bad I really didn't pick up most of the characters were meant to be Brits until several scenes in.

This one hurt. Really hurt.'Posh' is one of the best plays of the past decade, and I will forever remember the exhilaration of watching it. It is a play that bubbles with tension whilst being hurting-your-cheeks-from-smiling-so-much funny; the combination of these elements speaks to the skill of Laura Wade as a writer, sneaking into Martin McDonagh's turf. Sadly everything that makes 'Posh' great is missing here. It is devoid of subtlety, there is little menace and they really - REALLY - forgot to bring the funny. And it really is such a shame, as the ingredients were all there, and a number of the cast would surely have excelled if they'd got their hands of the real thing, but it wasn't to be.'Posh' wasn't broke, it didn't need fixing... but they went ahead and did it anyway. Find the play, see the play. Or read the play. Anything but this.

What's the worst thing anyone can say about a movie? That it's boring... and that's definitely the case in this adaptation of a play posing as an expose of young British aristocrats. While the source material seems marginally interesting, it's really hard to say, as the direction is clumsy and some of the acting embarrassingly over the top, so you end up in a stupor of confusion and disbelief. Ultimately, I just wanted it to be over.Harry Lyons in particular seems to know not the meaning of "subtlety," or maybe he's lost in the haze created by the director's clueless helming. Confusion abounds. Is the movie a sendup of rich English twits, an attack on sincerity, or a muddled, genteel "Fight Club" ("riot" rhymes with "fight" in posh speak, evidently)? Nobody will ever know, least of all the filmmakers.The exception is Max Irons, whose performance manages to lift off a few feet above ground. He is miscast and comes off as less "polished baby oligarch with conscience" than as, say, a rugby player hiding the fact that he's on scholarship. Yet he's got the physical presence of a young Albert Finney or Richard Burton. Unfortunately, he's been made to "emote" with his face and play up his sensitive qualities in this movie, where we want to see his ferocity and coiled stamina be allowed to explode.By far the biggest problem, though, is that the source play hasn't been well translated for the screen and the director has no idea how to pull off whosever vision it was to turn this into a movie.

I liked this movie. it was difficult to watch sometimes due to the sheer nature of the how people with money view their status and people below them, but definitely worth watching.

This movie was a real disappointment. Young men, who know better but don't care, running wild, destroying property and their futures, creating mass havoc. Is it their parents' faults, or just a "right of passage" of their university club and their English upper class status? The acting wasn't bad and viewing the English landscape offset the negative aspects of the film.

Hilarious and ironic!

I’m unable to play this Blu-Ray movie because it’s for another part of this world. Why would you not indicate that in the description? So very disappointed in Amazon for this. By the time I got around to watching it the return window closed so I’m screwed out of my money for nothing.

Everyone in the UK should watch this film, based on the Bullingdon Club at Oxford Uni.David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, George Osbourne...these are just some of the members.This film gives you a great insight into what they got up to, their privileged lifestyle, their principles & misdemeanours and their contempt towards us ‘commoners’ in society.

A grossly exaggerated storyline. As per above-captioned heading, much of the acting was very good, but not sure any Scotsman would have been so meek as the one who owned the country pub! Max Irons, Douglas Booth & Sam Claflin were of particular note. I saw some of Max's father in him and thought how easily he too could have played Charles in Brideshead Revisited, like his famous actor father berore him. In fact Douglas Booth would have fitted in as a good Sebastian in Brideshead, coincidentally, also centred around Oxford in the early part of that series. No humour in this movie at all, and can't say it was an entirely enjoyable viewing. It gave a less than glowing image of the well-helled, much of it stereotyped & unfair in parts.

The film is okay, although sometimes unpleasant. England is like France an eliitist society, and boys like these are probably future Leaders. Not an altogether agreeable thought.

Gripping film but how far did it stretch I truth? After all , we have to be kind to our former PM .Something he claims hs struggled to live down .

Honestly disgusted by the over privileged prats. What they nearly did to his girl friend and he did nothing.