"Mean Creek" is a film about high school aged kids who conspire to get even with a school bully with a prank which goes seriously wrong. The story is so simple that the end is almost a foregone conclusion reducing it to just so much of the obvious elements required to develop the meager plot and see it through to its conclusion. "Mean Creek" fared well with critics and public alike scoring a marginal two thumbs up and is very well executed considering its one man indieness. However, it lacks the intensity and edge of similar much better films such as "Bully (2001)" and "Elephant (2003)" and spends most of its time just showing kids behaving like kids. This film is just one of a long list of films about teens with nothing very special to offer. (B-)
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