Would need to like Jazz

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2015)

If you don't like Jazz, then this is not for you. As there is loads of Jazz in this and I am not a fan.
J.K. Simmons as Fletcher is brilliant as the half man obsessive tyrant and Miles Teller as the lead character matches him in being equally as obsessive in pushing himself to the very limits in a win at all costs mentality to succeed at his chosen profession.
I have no idea how true to life this would be in the modern age but maybe in the 60s and before.But the way they treat the students here would make Sociologists have a nightmare in the management of human behaviour performance.
The film plot scope is quite light as at the end I thought there wasn't much of a story, and not an original story either so you need to love Jazz. I am not sure if people could be this obsessive over Jazz.
Main plus in the film (if you don't like Jazz) is the performance of the two leads.