Cheaters (2000)

Touches You

To me, this movie is perfection.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I've been a huge fan of HBO movies going way back to And the Band Played On. Cheaters isn't quite that level, but isn't far off. A compelling story driven by actors who all nail their roles, and a deliciously subversive tale at that all add up to a story pretty well guaranteed to keep you thinking and talking about it for a long time. What more can you ask from a movie?As great as Daniels and Malone are in this one, I feel the need to point out that I felt all the actors who played the kids in this movie really stole the show. Especially the ones I never heard of before or since. There was talent to spare from this cast, and it's really a damned shame that we haven't seen more of them.If the movie has any flaws, it would be the lower production values that leave you feeling this movie could have rivalled any theater release that year if only the budget had been a tad higher. The movie makes me think a few scenes would have benefitted from a reshoot or a little more sophisticated editing, but they aren't enough to distract. Serious kudos to Director John Stockwell, he putbout a picture any filmmaker could be proud of. Go ahead and try to only watch it once.

Bottom line, cheating is fun, smart, and funny.Don't try this at school.This movie is a great film about the lives of a few students who cheat there way through school. Great acting and script is fantastic. It starts out good and ends even better. I was never bored throughout the whole time I was watching it. Even though a lot of the cheating is a bit unreasonable at times, it still give that feel that anyone can do it. If you are in the mood for some comedy about high school students who cheat, then watch this film. 2 thumbs up.

What I absolutely loved about this movie is the fact that it displays a genuine moral dilemma without necessarily preaching anything. It doesn't provide viewers a standpoint for moral ascendancy, instead, the viewers get the pleasure of interpreting the situation, thus gaining that threshold for ascendancy.I'd say the film did play out a bias, and the bias was in favor of the students from Steimetz High. I'd say that it is rather a fair bias, because it is rare to see the cheaters as the protagonist. Amidst this, they weren't portrayed as the over-glamorized heroes that will promote a cheating society. What John Stockwell did was to give us a dose of reality, an arena for sympathize with cheaters, at the same time, displaying the consequences of the human act.I love the mixture of documentary footages. Opening Credits was awesome, wherein there were raw footage in grainy stock of actual American high school. It played greatly on the emotional framework that the film worked on and I'm so glad my parents were able to find a copy of the film on DVD.

It's scary and it's shocking what one school had to go through just to be the best. Did i agree with what they did? no. but look at they had everything short of mini bar's and a juice room they had all the latest stuff and this one school is struggling just to keep running. These students, these kids were determined to be the best no matter what i took. It is a great movie and a good yet sad story of how these kids were driven to cheat and how they just wanted to feel and to know what it was like at the top. Recommended for those who want to watch something new a fresh! ~!