Overheated and shrill, Apt Pupil is at best an unremarkable mediocrity. There's some little things here that register, and a majority of them come from McKellen. In interviews, Singer has expressed the desire to bridge the gap between independent moviemaking and Hollywood commercialism. It's a shame too. This could have been a spectacularly creepy film.
Singer mangles it and emerges with little more than a slick, competent after-school special.
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