Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

videorama-759-859391 Sadly this comedy misfires, although still makes for a quite watchable film, where we really get a kick of seeing Cleese's day get worse, all for being a stickler for time, where there are a few underlying messages under it's premise. As a comedy the film fatally suffers, coming at a few dead stop of laughs. It's really fails here, a real fatal blow, considering the fine cast, yet still as I said, it is quite an adventure to say the least. When I say John Cleese is a stickler for time, I mean it. In one of what I consider his best performances, among others, like in A Fish Called Wanda, he plays headmaster, Brian Stimpson, who's been invited to a headmaster's conference, regarding getting special funding to improve his not so special college, or something like that as I can recall. Mistake is he gets on the wrong train for misinterpreting a direction, which now comes as an old joke, again used at the end of the film, resulting in a car smash. Driven to extremes, Cleese, is forced to borrow a student's car, as well as steal one. He loses it with a payphone, accidentally backs into another vehicle, while also bathing and getting scrubbed up in a monastery, after his suit gets caked with mud. The free spirited tractor guy, I'll never forget. By the end of the film, Clockwise becomes quite serious and not so a comedy, which it was only a half comedy to begin with. It's really a shame here, but I still like the movie, where I know John Cleese plays a heavy part, in my liking for it. It's just so great, to see him lose it.

Framescourer A road movie in which the bloated pomposity of an English headteacher is systematically punctured by a series of unforeseen events. It's essentially a one-trick concept film for the talents of Cleese: it might even be said that it's Fawlty Towers, The Movie, complete as it is with ill-matched wife and with the same car as driven by Basil Fawlty. It's a well-weighted film and it's little surprise to find that the script is by Michael Frayn (whose most famous film adaptation to date is the farce Noises Off with Michael Caine). It's a great film for 'where are they now' (or perhaps 'what they were there, then!?') spotting. Naturally though the film is Cleese's property and although the shtick is familiar he does seem to put it on the big screen unselfconsciousnessly. 5/10

Karl Self This is an absolutely underrated, classic British comedy. I've always had a soft spot for this movie and am glad that others seem to share this sentiment. It also doubles as a showcase for John Cleese, whom you will see here in an, as I think, far more complex and likable role than as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers.In the DVD extra you can see Cleese wondering why this movie didn't fly in the USA, when several years later other "typically British" movies such as The Full Monty were roaring successes there. Good question. For one I think that US audiences simply don't care for the perils of an English headmaster, whereas a bunch of good-natured social dropouts doing something outrageous has much more universal appeal. I think that Clockwise's main problem in this department is however that it lacks international star power -- maybe if they had given the part of Laura to Julia Roberts or Michelle Pfeiffer, things might have turned out differently. As it is I think the producers made an excellent choice in Sharon Maiden, who is playing her very difficult role excellently. Too bad we didn't see more of her afterwards.I think this was an 8-pointer but I'm giving it 9 points just because it's such a darn likable movie.

Aaron Hassard i watched this on TV back when i was in P7, one Sunday evening, and i loved it, it was a real funny comedy and you'll never guess what, i found the DVD in my brothers room and i'm gonna watch it tonight, can't wait!The film is basically about a man whose is on a journey to a meeting but is continuously stopped by various things that occur (going in the wrong direction, going through a field e.t.c....) but he eventually gets there in the end.Overall i enjoyed this film when i was 11, lets see if tonight i will still enjoy it as much...