I don't know what to think of this movie, or even how to label it. For a horror it's not scary enough, for a straightforward thriller there's too little action or suspense. Maybe the makers aimed at some sort of psychological thriller, in the vein of Hitckcock's "Rope" or of Tom Kalin's "Swoon" (both based by the way on the same true story). Here likewise some highly intelligent students commit murders for the of sport of it, or as a mind-challenge, to see if they can do it and if they can get away with it. That could have made for an interesting movie, but unfortunately it didn't match the named predecessors, simply because story and writing are way too one-dimensional.
Biggest problem is the lack of any decent motivation for the extraordinary actions of the kids. There are vague innuendo's of Nietzsche as inspiration for one of the four, but that's about it. Another one seems to be doubtful about the murders from the very start, but there's no explanation for that either. The uninteresting characters and mediocre acting didn't really help.
What remains is a movie with some harsh, almost mechanically committed violence, and only in the finale there is at last a decent, interesting twist and some surprising actions. But why the biggest culprit is allowed to get away?! It's as if the makers deliberately wanted to send the viewers home as frustrated as possible.
Biggest problem is the lack of any decent motivation for the extraordinary actions of the kids. There are vague innuendo's of Nietzsche as inspiration for one of the four, but that's about it. Another one seems to be doubtful about the murders from the very start, but there's no explanation for that either. The uninteresting characters and mediocre acting didn't really help.
What remains is a movie with some harsh, almost mechanically committed violence, and only in the finale there is at last a decent, interesting twist and some surprising actions. But why the biggest culprit is allowed to get away?! It's as if the makers deliberately wanted to send the viewers home as frustrated as possible.