Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Suradit Several people have suggested this movie is a rip-off of the earlier movie Elephant or at least that it is derivative. That implies that Elephant had some exclusive franchise on telling a story about bullying in schools and that Columbine, which supposedly was the inspiration for Elephant, was the definitive example of bullying and its consequences.There have been far too many real life incidents of this sort and too little has been done to effectively protect students who are victims and who are forced to defend themselves with catastrophic violence ... to themselves or others. Maybe even more movies need to tell essentially the same story until enough people begin to comprehend why intervention is needed.There are things in this movie that seem a bit contrived. Except when in the classroom, students seemed to be totally unsupervised or monitored. Aside from one brain dead basketball coach, all the teachers and school head were "mature" women who seemed to be remarkably clueless and who vanished as soon as they left the classroom.When Kaspar is the only one who attempts to defend Joosep, he is accused of bullying him. Various students are called in to the headmistress to explain what was going on, but no one bothered to ask Joosep if Kaspar was bullying him. And it is a little difficult to believe that all the other students were so intimidated by the bullies that none of them could feel much sympathy for either Joosep or Kaspar. I suppose the level of violence and degradation that culminated on the beach, with the tacit or explicit complicity of all the students, was possible, but it seemed a bit over the top for something that happened before so many witnesses and in such an open place and with no intervention from anyone.It is, of course, an indictment of all the adults involved ... or who couldn't be bother to be involved ... as much as or more than the nearly universally sociopathic & psychopathic students. For all its faults, it is still a powerful movie with all too believable cast of actors playing the self-absorbed student characters. The tension & anticipation grow along with the relentless physical & verbal violence. I think it did quite well what it apparently set out to do and after watching it most people would feel exhausted and despairing for the senselessness of what happened ... both in the movie and in too many schools. I hope no one could watch this and be unmoved.

Igor Chamada I saw this movie not so long ago, on a free exhibition in Estonia. I checked first on IMDb and it showed 8 out 10 voting, which went against the first impression the movie plot gave me, "trying to recreate columbine massacre". Well, that's what it was for me, a try, and it definitely failed.The director was too lazy. Amost every scene in the movie is shot with (bad) hand-held camera mixed with fast cuts that could work on some fast paced scenes but definitely ruin his attempts of trying to create a serious, romantic or minimally delicate conversation that happens sometimes, the empathy we should feel about the bullied kid is just not there. The plot is full of holes, characters are incoherent, with many plot holes where you can put your finger way deep. I don't demand explanations, i just felt some characters were changing personality every different day they went to school.The characters sound totally plot-driven, in a way that their actions are just bordering the surreal sometimes just to make the story work and keep going to the verge of the unacceptable. Anybody who has been bullied before or who has been present in such situations, know things can get hardcore, but man, how hardcore? By the way, where are the school janitors? Cleaning ladies in the corridor? Nobody? Only bully kids around? That school needs some monitoring.The movie wanted to depict the situations that lead kids to bring a gun to school and shoot around, and the director wanted to make sure the audience got it and stood by his side, by pulling the most ridiculous plot trick, a "have-pity-on-me" scene so that we can get on the side of the kid who's shooting and don't feel bad about it. I think that was the lowest and worst thing about the movie, along with terrible storyline where you never really get to know the relations between nobody since the script is only focused on the dialogues that tear the bullied kid's harmony.They divided the movie into chapters so they could use these fast-cut-guy-ritchie-music-video-style parts before the scene really started. It felt really out of context, because the story is told in quite serious molds, or tries to be, and i felt these parts were a sneaky attempt to wake up the short-attention-spam audience watching and get them back into the movie.The final shooting scene, well, you can't get any worse, whereas in scenario, in directing actors or just how it all develops. It doesn't look like a movie scene, it felt they were still rehearsing, the body language, the dialogues and the flow of action is too sloppy and looks too amateur to be the main reason why they made the movie.Directing is lazy, storyline is terrible, photography work is invisible, editing is sloppy and there is nothing in this movie that i could recommend to anybody except for the moral it teaches.Comparing it to Elephant? how dare you.

inc-10 Can I name a better film? Yes I can. It's called "Art of Fighting" or "Ssaum-ui gisul" (Korean). But for a western watcher, "Klass" is much closer to the reality. Some things people from other countries take as unbelievable are actually more than real. For example, teacher in the class clearly smelling that something's up but not taking any act. I know because I had all those teachers... some choose to ignore, some to not notice and play dumb. Guns? Well, highly unlikely in a country with only handful of people with firearm permit, but movie clearly establishes Joosep's father, a testosterone bomb from Kaitseliit (US equivalent would be National Guard). If anything, all adults were portrayed way better than kids themselves, because kids, especially bullies, somewhat held back and tried not to cross some invisible line in amount of violence, which helped to build up suspense gradually. During my school years and in my class, that line didn't exist, our "Joosep" was a girl(!) and she got punched into face from strongest boy in daylight, during a class with teacher present(!)... And there were no serious consequences to this..."Klass" tells exactly how it is, but quite unlikely how it could end. Highly recommended! reduced 2 points from perfect score due somewhat dumb party scene and slow pace at places.Btw, "Klass" has a sequel, 7-episode TV series named "Klass: The life after" (original name "Klass, elu pärast"), which is about ten times more emotional and disturbing. If you're lucky, it might be up on youtube.

nlx **Contains Spoilers**There you have Estonia, a somewhat unknown country, I couldn't even point it on the map but I assume that it's somewhere near Finland.And then...they made such a great movie, I saw it twice tonight, it's not what you would expect from a country like Estonia. Mostly in that region they make dull and boring movies. Not this one, Kaspar and Joosep (and the whole movie anyway) gives you the impression that it's real, that this is actually happening. And yeah, this is actually happening all over the world, that's why this is so dramatic... The acting is incredibly realistic and you can feel as much sympathy for Kaspar and Joosep as you can hate Anders and the rest of the class. My opinion is that the casting agency did a wonderful job, omg, these guys deserve an Oscar for their performance... I really could feel their pain and what they were going trough... It was so real and so well acted. I really felt so close to Kaspar and Joosep.Maybe it's a bit because I was once in the same situation as Joosep that this movie remembered me at this dark period of my life.It is something you never forget, these are scars for life.. now so many years later,***Spoiler Alert***I still want to kill my bully, and this is what this movie is about, finally they do the right thing, everybody who watch this movie want to see Anders and the rest of the class being slaughtered.So my rating is 10 out of 10 for this movie. Bringing this subject better as they did is impossible.