Review of Whiplash (2014) by Zimmy — 12 Jan 2015

I've never felt so out of step on a movie as this. To me it was simply awful. Homophobic rants, ritual verbal humiliation and physical violence and I'm still expected to feel some kind of sympathy for the protagonist and still meant to believe he'd be allowed to be a teacher in a top music school.

Okay, in truth I wasn't bored...the performances are great and there are some fairly good moments but it's ultimately a cliched 'overcoming-the-odds' sort of thing that I've seen far too often in the past.