Detention

Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: April 13, 2012

6.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Ratings

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wiggipopMar 25, 2013

This is an odd sugar-rush of a film. Whip smart, and well made... to a point. There are strange parts, this is a film where time travel and switching brains is no big deal and a guy can have part fly DNA. It's almost as if a 11 year oldThis is an odd sugar-rush of a film. Whip smart, and well made... to a point. There are strange parts, this is a film where time travel and switching brains is no big deal and a guy can have part fly DNA. It's almost as if a 11 year old pitched the story, I mean, the time travel machine is inside a bear. Of course, why not? I guess it sort of works in the end, but it takes some odd routes getting there. Enjoyable, if slightly off-putting… Expand

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awesomefastguyJul 18, 2014

The main problem with 'Detention' is that the plot is completely mixed up. It starts off as a really good slasher film (which I really liked), then (with a third of the film left) they get put in Detention, and then it become this weird andThe main problem with 'Detention' is that the plot is completely mixed up. It starts off as a really good slasher film (which I really liked), then (with a third of the film left) they get put in Detention, and then it become this weird and badly made sci-fi adventure. If it had just stuck to the slasher part of the film, it could have been brilliant. It was witty, well-acted and the reveal of the murderer was entertaining, it's just the plotless plot that ruins it.

Good if you want to pass the time and discuss it with a friend, but it's not really that good (unfortunately.… Expand

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tiparJul 10, 2018

Or how to slowly waste a good and funny idea from the half of the movie onwards.

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