Apt Pupil

The underlying theme Apt Pupil maintains throughout is attention to texts and attention to texts that can inspire and influence but for all the wrong reasons. Apt Pupil does not have a set up; it jumps right into its narrative... Full review

Though not one of the most gripping films i have ever watched, Apt Pupil, to me, was still a very good movie. The acting was superb, and seemed to give a great portrayel of the fine line between good and evil... Full review

I was surprised at how good this movie was. The plot line seemed intriguing, but I was worried that it would eventually fall into one of the standard "bad Nazi war criminal found" plots where you always know the ending.... Full review

That movie is so long and stupid! That boy is also stupid (and psychopatic it looks like). Oh and did I say it was a long and stupid movie?... Full review

Aside from one decently suspensful and brutal murder scene, this movie is apt to make your pupils hurt...if you can stay awake throughout the film, that is. The filmmakers put in a poor evert to convert King's story to film. Hell,... Full review

It helps if you've already read Stephen King's novella of the same name from his 1982 book, "Diffrent Seasons"...APT PUPIL is taken from that, and it is very different from this watered down screen version. However, with that being said, the... Full review

This movie starts out good. Seems very interesting than goes straight downhill from there. Somewhere the movie goes off track in my opinion. Well let me say it sorta turns a different corner so to speak. I wanted to know alot... Full review

this film was a let down. ian did a decent job but the kid was annoying. he was just a pest the whole way through. singer is a good director but the film just didn't work. that schwimmer guy was in... Full review

A teenage boy befriends an elderly man. During countless discussions over many a night, they form a special friendship that manages to bridge their considerable age gap. It would sound like a sweet character study if the old man wasn't... Full review

NOT THOROUGHLY CONVINCING, BUT IT DOES HAVE SOME TENSE MOMENTS. A LITTLE FAR FETCHED AND HAS SOME NAST AND UNPLEASANT SCENES. IAN MC KELLAN IS QUITE GOOD AND BRAD RENFRO DOES A DECENT JOB.... Full review

As a thriller, Apt Pupil has enough tension to satisfy fans of contemporary horror movies. Yet, as Apt Pupil unravels, it provokes the unsettling suspicion that Singer and his collaborators have invoked the unspeakable atrocities of World War Two simply because they thought it would make a cool movie. ... Full Review

It's not going to win awards but it serves the movie well. While most of the stories in that collection were actually quite uplifting, there was one that was a bit of a downer but still a great story called "Apt Pupil". a very optimistic story. ... Full Review

if I thought that was all Singer was aiming for, I would find the film appalling.....Likewise, English Shakespearean actor Ian McKellen fits the role of Dussander perfectly by conveying the notion.... ... Full Review

Apt Pupil" is rated R for profanity, a violent stabbing and other brutal attacks, gore, use of vulgar slang and a vulgar gesture, male nudity, brief simulated sex and simulated marijuana use. Also, it should be noted that the film lacks a moral center and remains rather ambiguous on certain aspects of the subject matter, which tends to trivialize what millions of real-life Holocaust victims went through. ... Full Review

Director Bryan Singer is an intriguing match for this tricky material.....Neither is it a full-tilt Stephen King thriller, particularly after first-time screenwriter Brandon Boyce softens up the violence of the author's much more murderous text..... ... Full Review

Apt PupilBased off of a Stephen King Novella, Apt Pupil tells the story of a sixteen-year-old boy genius who has an infatuation with deadly arts. ... Full Article

In 1984, Todd Bowden is a sixteen year old A student in high school with an morbid fascination in the Holocaust. He stumbles across a former Nazi living in his neighborhood. ... Full Article

This latest effort from The Usual Suspects director Bryan Singer doesn't succeed in its examination of how the human heart can foment horrific evil. In Apt Pupil , Todd (Renfro) is a smart, morally vacant teen who happens upon a... ... Full Article

The Holocaust is one horror Stephen King didn't invent. But he did scare up a new psychological use for that chapter in the long history of human capacity for atrocity. ... Full Article

No matter how you judge it -- as a strict morality play or simply a psychological thriller -- Apt Pupil just doesn't make the grade. ... Full Article

In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to "The Usual Suspects," director Bryan Singer once more focuses on a monster garbed in sheep's clothing. Instead of the dreaded Keyser Sose, the movie centers on a more insidious form of evil. ... Full Article