good until the boys become cowards

Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2003)

About five kids with no balls who could only make poetic gestures, which, by the way, were totally ineffectual, to stand-up for themselves and for what was right. Yes, it can be inspirational, until you see how lame the kids are and how each one of them had the opportunity, especially the main character, to speak their mind, stand up for themselves, and for what is right...but they don't really do that. Williams is very good in the role of John Keating, but then you also ask yourself what a guy like Keating would be doing in a school like that.