F

Plot synopsis:
Felix O'Neil (Cameron Dallas) is a mischievous prankster who believes that school is a waste of time. He gets expelled after receiving his third suspension from the principal, Truman.
For several days, Felix covers up his expulsion with the help of his best friend, Danny. A week before report cards are supposed to be mailed, Felix makes a deal with his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa, to help her win a class election against her rival, Stacy. In exchange, Vanessa—Mr. Truman's T.A.—will print a straight A report card for Felix. Felix and Danny hack Stacy's computer and learn that she is a notorious cyber bully, Roxy. Felix is able to get into the school and expose Stacy.
That night, Felix arrives home and finds his report card in the mail; but Vanessa lied and gave him F's. Felix barely keeps his parents from finding out; in retaliation, he ruins the school play Vanessa stars in. After escaping from Truman, he is able to lie to his parents and convince Danny to help him break into school to fix his grades. Truman however, catches him in the act and calls the police who arrest Felix.
Felix's brother Ben—who broke out of his mountain academy by shipping himself out to their house—is able to bail Felix out. When they get home, their mom, pressures Felix about the report card, and forces Felix to convince Danny to give it to him. His parents are shocked, and his mom schedules a conference with his chemistry teacher. Felix hires the school janitor to pose as his chemistry teacher, who meets with Felix at his house. Ben, shocked, accidentally knocks him out. Felix, having no other choice goes with his mom to the meeting. Ben attempts to stop the meeting but fails. Felix's history teacher is about to tell about Felix's expulsion when Ben knocks him out. His mom finds Ben in the hallway, and even though Felix denies knowledge of it, his mom grounds him.
Ben is sent back to the academy, but not before planning his next escape; Felix's mom is doing everything to meet with Truman about Felix. A delivery pizza girl, Katie, convinces him to find a way to get Truman to re-enroll him. After getting into the school, they see Truman late at night doing something on his computer. Deducing something is suspicious, Felix convinces Danny to bug his computer and learns Truman is a gambling addict who steals school money to support his addiction. Felix blackmails Truman to re-enroll him. Vanessa, disapproves of this and helps Truman, who steals back the evidence of his addiction.
After Felix and Danny realize the evidence is missing, they head to the school where Truman gloats about beating Felix. Danny, however, steals Truman's laptop which has clear evidence of his activity. Felix's mom arrives, and Truman lies about Felix, stating he is an exemplary student and that his "Straight A" report card was not faked. Felix's mom's suspicions are relieved.
Felix is re-enrolled and wins Katie's affection. Although he still does not understand the importance of school, he works harder and earns better grades.

Tags: murder

Review:
If you go by the start, they are also supposed to be 'F' grade students taking revenge (although this isn't clear), but they must have 'A' grades in Athletics because they run about on large bookcases in the library, fall from the ceiling at every opportunity, they act like stealth ninjas from start to finish.The ending.
In North London, the teacher of the Wittering College Robert Anderson (David Schofield) is hit on the face by a student and is forced to take three months vacation to be not sued by the parents of the kid.Robert is affected by the incident and a couple of months later, he is emotionally disturbed, alcoholic and separated of his wife Helen (Juliet Aubrey).
But sooner Robert realizes that the Wittering College is under siege of a gang of hooligans and he need to find Kate to protect his daughter."F" is a film with that had potential to be a great movie.
As the viewers were just kind of watching a regular day at school that goes horribly wrong when menacing faceless(which is also a nice touch) killers start slowly taking out all in their way.
I would have liked to spend more time in the college during a normal day to get an idea of the size and general layout of the place, as well as to contrast the emptiness of the building at night, but that's a minor gripe.A lot of people appear not to have liked the ending, but (without spoiling anything) I will say that it fits with the rest of the film.
It's largely a set piece production and, with the ending the way it is, there is scope for a sequel to expand on the events that occur in this film or, again, the viewer can draw upon their own thoughts and perspective.Overall I found this film to be gripping, suspenseful, and with just enough innate malice and hold on reality to create a 'what if' situation where anybody, teacher or not, could see this happening to them at some point.
An alcoholic teacher has to save his estranged daughter when a group of hooded youths attack the school at night....I liked the idea behind this film, but sadly as written, it doesn't quite work.
You don't actually see much on-screen, instead usually only seeing the bodies afterwards.As a result, then the writer/director Johannes Roberts has to rely on his skill with a camera to create tension and any scares he can, and to be fair he does get the building tension as the film progresses just right.
I can't recall a recent film with an ending like this, and it actually works brilliantly.Sadly though it is his writing that lets him down, which is a shame, as potentially this could have been very good indeed.A missed opportunity..
11 months later and back at work, Robert's worst fears about youth violence towards teachers and auxiliary staff comes true as the college comes under night time siege from a gang of faceless hoodies.Damned if you do, damned if you don't, in horror, if you spoon feed your audience solutions and full on gore you get called unoriginal.
Roberts' movie follows the latter course of action, an acknowledged homage/spin on Assault on Precinct 13, it's the latest British film to tap into the growing adult fear of the "seemingly" lawless spurge of violence perpetrated by the hoodie generation.
It would be better if movie would continue into direction of psychological internal battle of the main "hero" (whether to do something or do nothing) or deeper character analysis than entering into some very poor horror atmosphere, which at the end leaves you empty as shell.
When the 'Hoodies' were looming we would know, and that made them ten times creepier.The ending, love it or hate it, was different and strangely invigorating.'F', despite the minor clichés, it's slight dip into repetition and bland characters (apart from a couple), and I suppose the lack of a substantial plot, is a fresh film.
OK, so maybe I am being over generous with my rating but I wanted to counter-act the other votes a little as I cannot agree with the views of the majority of other reviewers.I thought F was an excellent little horror film which I will certainly recommend to my friends.
The plot concerns a school being invaded after hours by a gang of killers, and the only one who realizes something is wrong can't get the others to believe him, but he can't leave himself because his daughter is also at school.I see most of the complaints are centered around certain areas where the movie leaves things open.
While I'm not one to complain about kills in a horror movie, I also feel like they could've done more with the main character's troubles with both his job and his family.
It leaves me hoping for a sequel, because I even without the ending I think there's more this story to give.To conclude, it seems as though whether or not you'll like this movie depends on how much importance you place on everything being explained.
OK i know what you are doing now you laughing with yourself now ,how stupid you were and you didn't listened to the bad reviews Yeah its truth my friend this movie is plain stupid.Go back at home and drink a beer and you ll forget it in the next 24 hours i assure you, movies like this usually are forgotten in the next 24 hours.A big thanks for reading this ,it can save your valuable time from your life..
Here we have a terrible corrupted government & a terrible weak & pathetic Justice system so our streets are full of EVIL soulless almost inbred primal kid thugs roaming around the dark streets at night stabbing people & getting away with it because of our scared & weak Justice system & this Horror movie F came out of all that Terror & violence seen everyday on the news & in the papers but F is also based on a true incident in a London school.Now the film F is a very low budget Horror Thriller & made very well in a real school location in London so it feels so real because it is but it's made in an also exciting movie way like Carpenters classic Assault on precinct 13 (1976) & the director made that choice on purpose being a huge Carpenter fan & the big dark school at night being under seige by faceless killers has that exciting & scary Carpenter atmosphere.
A male teacher & a few others are in the school late one dark evening & a gang of pure evil faceless Hooded kid thugs attack the school & start stalking the dark gloomy corridors & killing anyone they come accross just like real life everyday in England!!!!A great rare lead performance that's intense & very serious by David Schofield (A British t.v actor) who is the main character a troubled teacher who has to fight back against the evil kids & i love the way the murderous thugs are portrayed as just pure evil faceless savage killers without emotion or character because that's how these creatures are in real life just evil & will stab you if you even look at them so here it's spot on not to humanize then at all.
I like that Robert has become paranoid of violent youths since that opening scene, but the film spends no time exploring the potential of that idea.It's got a likeable lead, a cool setting and some memorable kills, but there's nothing really to it.4/10..
Possibly the worst thing I found about this, is the (SPOILER ALERT!!!) level of sickening, psychopathic violence performed, naturally, on several women- this is 'school of misogyny' without a doubt.I wonder about the mindset and motivation of the original writer(s) who dreamed up the story line, particularly the gratuitously sick attacks on female characters..
I know that there is no golden rule saying that all characters in a scary film must be likable, but I think that it really helps one's overall enjoyment of a horror if there are at least a few people to identify with or root for; similarly, there's nothing to say that indiscriminate on-screen carnage needs to be justified, but it's quite nice to be given a motive for such behaviour.F, from director Johannes Roberts, features almost no-one worth caring about and offers little explanation for its random killings, making it a very frustrating watch—a shame, because the basic set up has plenty of potential and Roberts shows a lot of promise with his handling of the visuals, making great use of his surprisingly creepy setting, a secondary school after hours.Things go wrong almost immediately with the introduction of the film's central character, teacher Robert Anderson (David Schofield), who loses the viewer's sympathy with his insensitive and very unprofessional classroom manner, belittling his less able students in front of the whole class (and quite deservedly getting a head-butt for his troubles).
So many horrible people in one building...The killers in this film—faceless 'hoodies' who understandably have issues with Anderson, but who for some reason also vent their rage on less deserving members of staff and their own peers—prowl the corridors of the school like wild animals, quite literally at times, silently scaling furniture and shelving to pounce on their quarry; I understand that Roberts wanted his killers to appear predatory, but he takes it just a bit too far—I've seen ninjas less stealthy than these kids.
It's all a bit hard to take seriously at times.The dark locale does allow for quite a bit of tension, the odd shock, and some occasional gore, with the death of F's only really amiable character, hot teacher Nicky (Roxanne McKee), being particularly nasty, but as a whole it is a very flawed film, the inconclusive and unsatisfying ending being the final straw..
This film takes me back to watching my classmates' Horror trailers in secondary school; it seems as if the film-makers consulted a GCSE Media Studies text book when attempting to construct tension, it's tiringly clichéd and ineffective.The film's paper-thin, immature and utterly dumb plot makes me think that the crew also opened the text book when it came to narrative, which consists of a secondary school being raided by hooded assailants whom needlessly jump and climb around with such agility that they appear to have either been bitten by a radioactive spider or are just psychotic free runners – it's all completely stupid.Horror fans are presented with disappointing scenes that merely examine the resulting cadavers instead of displaying mobile blood and gore.
One evening, when keeping his daughter in detention, a pack of criminal students (?) hiding their faces underneath hooded caps invade the school's premises and relentlessly begin to terrorize the remaining staff members without apparent motive.As a social statement, "F" is definitely one of the most remarkable genre movies of the past ten years.
It had a nicely set up situation, and was shot in a visually interesting style, but feels like they rushed it out after the first draft.The set up of the troubled teacher had no pay off, the kids getting an F was not a motivator to go on a killing spree, it that's indeed what happened.
The plot = A handful of teachers and students stay behind late after school, but unknown to them a gang of mysterious hoodies decide to kill them off."F" although I don't understand this title, gets off to an interesting start and the school setting is genuinely creepy, but all that quickly falls flat, which is a shame as it's been a while since I've seen a decent high school slasher and I was hoping that this would be one of them, but unfortunately this doesn't really cut it.As I've said before this movie does start off quite good and definitely showed potential but as it went on I became quickly disappointed, for a start the overuse of people investigating a strange noise is stupid and the supposed scenes that supposed to make you jump don't.
The hooded kids aren't really scary at all and especially when they start doing jumps onto lockers and running across the walls was totally stupid what are they supposed to be ninjas or something.Another thing that's disappointing are the kills, off screen which is such a slap in the face but there are some decent effects on when the bodies are found, and plus the ending with no explanation whatsoever, just lazy in my opinion.All in all a great setting but falls flat, when things begin to happen..
I also understand that a lot of the killings were implied, in which case this movie fails both on scares and blood-letting.It also suffers from character stupidity, the kind I thought had been put to rest following the horror rules as outlined in "Scream"!
- I feel like i have been stolen of 75 minutes of my life.Acting Poor, Editing Poor, Storyline Poor, Ending Poor and Scenery was also PoorAwful Awful film!I don't even have ten lines worth of text to describe how bad this film was.If you ever see this film, make sure you kill it with fire.
"F" is just another example of one of those films that sound like they could have a lot of potential and build a very strong opening, but then are executed in an horrific and appalling way, that instead of being scary or tense and exciting, they end up being frustrating.
The writing was also really bad, with lines such as "some of you kids don't deserve to go to this school." Though it doesn't help that they're delivered by really stale actors.But what majorly lets this film down is the ending.
In fact, by the end of the film, it doesn't matter that you don't see the 'hoody' yoooffff faces, because you just want to start to cheer them on for getting rid of a bunch of idiots, who can't seem to use mobiles to call the police and when they do finally get through to them, the two that turn up deserve to be high on the list of the teen killers because of their stupidity.It's full of what I call stupid music, that music used in horror films that attempts to chill you to the bone, which is really there to tell you if the idiot character doesn't turn around and see that there's a big ole horror fest panto taking place in the same room as he keeps walking into - 'HE'S BEHIND YOU' then the music will let you know that another one is about to get shanked!!!
I'll leave that crap for those who think it is Poetry, or Philosophical to let the audience decide what happens next (after the end).In addition, this film is one of those crappy thriller movies that keeps you saying: "oh!
that makes no sense..." ; you know, one of those films you think it could end the whole plot if they just pulled the Fire-alarm (calling fireman and police), or leave the building after seeing weird stuff like blood and corpses :).
It didn't explain who the hoodies were, why they killed, why that school at that time.It didn't even finish just left you guessing Worst film ever !.
some really bad acting which does stand out a lot as the dialouge seems forced from one of the lead actresses.without giving too much away it also felt like the movie did not have a proper ending which was a disappointment.The killers in this movie are hooded kids who are trying an attempt at some poor free-running.the only thing that puzzled me is that this movie is an 18 rating but there are far gorier films out there with 15 ratings.
In fact in some ways, the film could have ended a couple of minutes sooner, as the teacher struggles with the impossible choice between helping his wife or daughter.
Exceptionally good horror-thriller, because---there was little on screen violence; one never actually sees the faces of the mass murderers; there was a very clear reason why the murderers were doing what they were doing, although the murderers themselves do not state it.-----------------------At a public school (Wittering College in the UK) Robert Anderson, a tough teacher, is rather direct about how horrible a student's work is.
I can see why this film is either a love or hate movie.There are those that like it's simple approach and execution, and there are those that just dislike it because it doesn't deliver the expected gore fest they've come to expect, and it doesn't make a lot of sense either.I'm a bit torn over this film, and wanted to like it more than I do.THE GOOD:I was impressed in the simple way it slowly nudged up the tension.It slowly made you feel more uncomfortable, as the hoodie gang attack lone teachers and pupils after hours at the school.
It isn't shocking any more, and we all know how good make up effects and CGI can be to show a person getting killed, so the impact is lost.The faceless hoodies were a new scary idea, and how they stalked their victims was well filmed.THE BAD:Well, the film takes a big nose-dive once we've reached 75 minutes of good tension building and plot development, and seems to just fizzle out.There is no resolution at all here, no real motive for the attacks, no members of the gang identified.
Unfortunately, what we actually ended up with was a completely pointless and unsatisfying movie whose numerous plot holes are never explained, thereby wasting an intriguing opening 10 minutes.The basic premise is that a disgraced teacher, his bratty daughter and a handful of utterly witless individuals (cleaner, boyfriend, security guards, etc) end up trapped in a school one night, while a gang of faceless ninja parkour hoodies embark on synchronised mass murder for absolutely no discernible reason whatsoever.