vabeliaev 'The Riot Club' is a thrilling 2014 British drama film, revolving around a small group of born with a silver spoon in their mouths students of the University of Oxford. These people are secretive, but renowned in a narrow circle of other British aristocrats for drunken mischief making. As they exercise their privileges, talk down to everybody and behave ruthlessly, the viewer may actually find it rather disturbing and unpleasant. Albeit the so-called Riot Club is in the center of the story, most of the screen time is dedicated to Sam Claflin (Alistair) and Max Irons (Miles). The former, not being a shrinking violet, is a hypocritical but clever first-year student, who rejoices in ranting and getting on his high horse. The latter is a rather mellow fellow, who gets roped into seemingly unlimited shady world of binges. Credit where credit's due - both actors performed outstandingly, yet from the very beginning of the film the viewer can witness some plot holes in character development. For instance, at first Milo is presented as a shrewd and intelligent person. However, in 10 minutes he completely turnes around and becomes level-headed. The opposite goes for Alistair. As for the plot, it is a spate of squandering, swearing, drinking and somewhere going too far. The bottom line in all that reckless farce is a banquet of a rural pub, where all hell breaks loose when Alistair takes on the initiative and starts destroying the bar. Undoubtedly, the introduced characters are bad-eggs, but that moment really flies in the face of common sense. Thus, on one hand it is a riveting story of spoiled young people, but on the other hand it is a twisted series of constant smutty jokes and obnoxious behavior that makes one stop watching and forget about the film as a horrid dream.

kosmasp Or is it? Well it is a big feast of some sorts. And the movie really dives into human nature and how low some will sink. It's also the group mentality and how some will feel superior to others. There are so many comments about the homo sapiens and how he will behave under certain circumstances, that it's tough to actually like any of the characters depicted.Even if you think they're fun at certain points, when the spiral starts spinning and everything gets out of control ... that's where most will lose patience. Maybe even with the movie, although it does a perfect job of showing us exactly that ... with all the consequences or not ... A tough movie to watch with just a little touch of graphic violence

Martin Bradley A cast of outstanding young British actors all acting superbly, together with several very fine, and already established character players, a 'name' director and a successful West End play so why isn't "The Riot Club" more engaging than it is? Probably because there's very little on the screen to like. "The Riot Club" is said to be very loosely based on the real life Bullingdon Club and is about a group of thoroughly unpleasant, extremely rich young men at Oxford, members of the club of the title, who have dedicated themselves to decadence and debauchery and really just being absolute shits.It's very well done though I'm not sure it tells us very much about the state of the nation that we didn't already know. All this movie really does is reinforce an already held belief that being stinking rich is basically tantamount to being totally objectionable and getting away with it. It's a hateful picture but a hatefully compelling one, nevertheless.

Troy Putland It's hard to distinguish what's fact and what's fiction in The Riot Club. On one side secret societies will always have their debauchery and initiations, so a level of trouble-making's to be expected. On the other, TRC exaggerates the misbehavior of a notorious Oxford University group. It's a not so fine line between the two. One single dinner event escalates out of control, subjecting the divide between the rich and the working class. The Riot Club's an infuriating watch, with the majority of the club's members basking in their 'importance', looking down on those they believe to be beneath them. The performances are solid, especially from the club's newest members (Sam Claflin and Max Irons), but two thirds of this film is spent focusing on their petty squabbles than relatable facets.