Movie Review: The Good Student

Have you ever come across a movie that you thought would completely blow your mind, you watch, and you watch, and you keep thinking 'any minute, any minute now something cool is going to happen!'

That's sort of what you feel the entire time while watching The Good Student.

I only chose the movie because Hayden Panettiere was the main character. In the flick, Ally is supposed to portray the most beautiful girl in school. So much so that she one day goes missing, and the entire town is on the lookout for her.

It's no secret that the History teacher Mr. Gibb has a bit of a crush on her.

The main suspect of course becomes Mr. Gibb, because the day before Ally Palmer went missing he gave her a lift back to her house after he overheard her and her boyfriend breaking up in the hallway outside of his classroom.

When Ally goes missing everyone suddenly becomes a suspect besides just Mr. Gibb. Although Mr. Gibb is the most obvious, as the show unfolds he becomes less and less likely as being the kidnapper of Ally.

After the police and other townsfolk ruled out Mr. Gibb as the main suspect, you as the viewer are then led to believe that everyone but Mr. Gibb kidnapped Ally.

At one point in the movie, I actually thought that her own father kidnapped her for a sleazy marketing scheme for selling more cars at his local used car lot.

Once she goes missing, Mr. Gibbs decides to set up a reward for anyone who brings Ally back home. Of course the police have their hands tied now after Mr. Gibbs offered of a reward because just about everyone keeps calling in to the station looking to somehow get their hands on the money.

Now the mystery of where Ally is, is unknown, but seeing that the flick will focus in on her waking up in a dark broom closet type room, you begin to think the janitor has her locked away. Then you begin to think that the Gothic girl who works at the video store may have her locked up in the stores back room.
Honestly the whole thing is a 'who dun it' type of film, and after 45 minutes of the same non-stop who dun it bull-hooey, you get bored.

Overall the flick started off promising, and then got extremely boring. The ending was not what you expected to happen, but at the same rate it was the most obvious, and it fooled you into thinking otherwise. If you just stick to your initial thoughts on who kidnapped Ally, you will already know who the kidnapper was. Yawn!

The answer was all to obvious, and this made the movie all the more boring. Basically a bunch of twists and turns attempted to fool viewers on who kidnapped Ally, but even with the convincing attempts, the ending still failed. It was still hella boring.

The Good Student grabs 1 star out of 5 for the lame attempt to fool, but looses 4 stars due to it having such a boring vibe to it the entire time.