Backwoods horror characters in an affluent English setting. Some of the weirdest and most disturbing characters I've seen since Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

An over-the-top depiction of upper class Oxford students but in a good way. The cast is full of great actors, many of whom have gone on to some incredible roles. Definitely worth a watch. Some added elements from the original play is it based on which aren't really needed but a great watch!

A good commentary on the British class system. Strong performances from the entire cast; The Riot Club is a dark academia story that will certainly leave you with some food for thought.

Money, family, status, the school you went to is not what gives a man class. The way someone treats themselves & those around them, their character, their virtue, their state of consciousness is what true class is. It's a damning social commentary on the pitfalls of privelege, the entrenched inequality in British society & the inevitable self destruction this leads to on an individual & societal level. It's a particular survival strategy based on extraction, exclusion & entitlement. It's not one based on the true fundamentals of existence which exists in unity & interconnection which is why it requires such illusions of grandeur & institutions of entrenched power. Decent movie, interesting topic but the characters & plot are a bit one dimensional. True class is a state of consciousness.

Blatant, berserk and surprisingly bloody. Handsome lads and excellent acting but the narrative could be better.

What starts out as an interesting examination of privilege and class ends up to be a totally implausible and overlong exercise which belies its original existence as a play

What a total pile of crack full of overprivalaged toff twats, I despise everything these upturned noses stand for

The film is well-paced and features fine performances. The talented young cast has chemistry and make the most of the material. Where it goes wrong, IMO, is in making a major change from the source material (the stage play "Posh."). The director decided to give Miles a love interest, and make her and their relationship, if not exactly central, intrinsic to the plot. It was an unneeded and unwelcome, for me, change that was intended to add an extra edge but ended up blunting the existing ones instead. This character drained the show of its originality and made it vaguely reminiscent of an 80s Teen Rom-Com, but without the nice ending. Had they left the plot as it was, the climactic scene in which everything goes haywire would have made way more sense. I happen to like Holliday Grainger, who plays the girlfriend in question. There is nothing wrong with her performance. But the character still throws it all off balance.

It could have gotten a star more if the ending had been different, it just didn't resonate with me. Also I think there could've been some kind of bigger character growth. But it was really entertaining and you really felt alive as the boys did.

It really goes for it

Successful in building a lot of tension throughout the film but the finale didn't deliver.

Adapted from the play "Posh" by Laura Wade the film tells us about Oxford`s hedonist society called The Riot Club. What you could expect from such film is the magnetic and forbidden aesthetic of the academia and privilege but it turns out to be a missed opportunity. The cast of Britain`s brightest rising stars was perhaps the most exciting thing about this movie. Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Holliday Grainger, Jessica Brown Findlay and others have done a terrific job with the material they were given. However, I did not expect to see Natalie Dormer play such a small part. Her on-screen appearance lasted three minutes at best and that was a shame. The whole point of the film can be conveyed in a sentence. It all comes down to a lesson about how spoiling power and wealth can be as if any decent human being watching needed this message. The story is not layered at all, there was not a moment that left me in awe since every plot twist (if I can even use this word) was painfully predictable. The narrative was dull, failing to grasp viewer`s attention at watershed moments and I often found myself drifting away. The ending was disappointing and flat. There were not any revelations or food for thought. The overdone and poorly written dialogs were a waste of the time that could be used to show the range of the actors` talent. The film could easily be slashed by half and the effect would be the same. The characters were promising at the beginning and quickly turned into caricatures. The writers clearly did not pay much attention to character development which turned out to be questionable. All in all, The Riot Club could bathe in glory of iconic dark academia movies but it did not live up to its potential lacking in tension and subtlety. What was meant to be a story about painfully disgusting behavior turned out to be a movie painful to watch.

Be wary of the monsters!

Loved it! Great film and pleasure to watch. Don't listen to all these long reviews just watch it and take it as it is A MOVIE! Not to mention the really cute guys +AAA in my book

Film based loosely on the notorious Bullingdon Club, the Oxford University group of toffs that exhibit riotous behaviour at dining establishments. The club has come into the public eye recently through the recent high profile Conservative politicians David Cameron, George 'Gideon' Osborne and Boris Johnson. It is difficult when watching the film not to be appalled at the behaviour by the latest members of The Riot Club as it is called here. That aside I don't want to slant my review of the film by class envy, social views etc. I in no way condone the actions exhibited in the film of destruction of property, substance misuse and use of sexually vulnerable adults. The film does show a class divide even at Oxford between the sneering upper class members of the club and more middle class students. What the film does try to show is that throwing money at a problem isn't always the solution? Interesting but disturbing low budget British production.

Although gruesome and disturbing, the movie was well made and very interesting. Kept me on my toes the whole time.

This movie is pleasantly fucked up. Its basically made for and about the ultimate rich snobs .

Uneven story telling. The protagonists are lame until one of them goes over the edge. The movie gets 2 starts. 1/2 for the performances of the male leads.

Surprisingly better than I expected. There's an undercurrent of very interesting ideas swirling around the ten young men in the club, each trying desperately to become a legend. A solid cast with strong filmmaking craft around them.

Despite its flaws (mostly derived from the script), The Riot Club is still able to become grippingly tense when it wants to be.