Shocked I never Reviewed This One Until Now

Rating: 7/10 (21 August 2014)

Director Peter Weir takes a free spirit (Robin Williams) and puts him into a role of John Keating (Instructor at a stuffy school), hints that he has a darker past on the wild side, and then has Keating defy the stuffed shirts who hired him.
There is more too this movie than some viewers can comprehend. Putting a straight jacket on Williams at this age is amazing. It is a film that has a message that has been incorporated into Education by Teachers as this one has a definitive political slant. It has tragedy, and sucks the marrow out of the students while purporting to unite them in a rebellion against the stuffed shirts.
Williams is brilliant in his most restrained performance of his career. While he has some funny lines, very little is ad lib. It is almost like the writer and director really put a thing to him that very little outside the script was even considered. The rest of the cast is really in minor support here- they are just for Keating to play off.
Critics did not like this film at all when it was released but are warming up to it as time passes because of the simplistic message Carpe Diem catches you thinking there is more to the film than there really is. Still, this is worth watching because of Robin Williams.