The Riot Club review and trailer: Posh young men 'behaving badly'
THE PRETTIEST sight in this fine, pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.
Director: Lone Scherfig
Starring: Max Irons, Sam Claffin, Douglas Booth
Cert 15, 108 mins
Thus spoke Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story and he obviously hadn’t seen The Riot Club.
Laura Wade’s 2010 play Posh offered a fictionalised account of Oxford’s Bullingdon Club and it has now been transformed into an enjoyable film by Lone Scherfig.
A new term at Oxford brings fresh meat in the shape of Miles (Max (son of Jeremy) Irons) and Alistair (Sam Claflin).
Both of them are viewed as potential members of the historic Riot Club, an organisation for arrogant boys who like to behave badly.
The Riot Club Official UK Trailer
It is the perfect excuse for future politicians, captains of industry and front line members of the ruling elite to let off a little steam.
A notorious mid-term dinner promises a 10-bird roast, limitless wine and lots of good old-fashioned debauchery but you just know this will all end in tears and some bitter soul-searching.
A film that only scratches the surface of class conflict but Max Irons is impressive as a man torn between the lure of friends in high places and his instinct to live by a higher moral code.