Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Pretty Good

Absolutely amazing

'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.

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.

This is a typical gritty Film Four presentation. A look at the seedier side of society groups and making us look at a side of people that we like to believe doesn't exist really but deep down we know they do. Very gritty , very thought provoking watch this knowing that you will be shocked .A secret Oxford University club where if you have to ask to join you can't be a member who are all from affluent backgrounds and think they are better than anyone beneath their social standing.We see how the club begins from its origins to modern day with the group needing new recruits . We see the process and induction of the new members and quickly realise that they are raucous to the extreme. They are preparing to book the annual meal and have to leave Oxford and end up in a beautiful family orientated gastro pub.As the drink flows and the drugs are consumed the behaviour of the group becomes excessive. A pre arranged prostitute refuses to co-operate which infuriates the members further. A violent assault tests their loyalty to each other and is played out with the involvement of outside parties.

Disgusting, vile, and with no moral code. As a woman I found this a horrendous watch. The subject matter of RAPE can not be justified by any cinematic standards. This director needs to take a few classes with Quentin Tarantio, in order to understand how to get a message across without totally disturbing the audience. Sadistic and uncalled for, belongs in the bin which is exactly where I put it :)Do yourself a favour and don't even bother, and if you have a girlfriend...I suggest this isn't a couples watch unless you want her to be very upset. No more to say other than that the writer should be pure ashamed of themselves and also this should be graded 18!!!