Customer Reviews
U must c this - By: Mr. D. Jones, 28 Sep 2008 
If you are British you must see this film. If you are young you must see this film. If you once were young you must see this film again. Unlike the rest of us Travis never got old, never lost his certainty, never compromised. Lyndsay Anderson, thank you for this film. I saw it first when I was 17. I can find no flaw at the age of 50. It is deeply observant, fiercely subversive & as relevant nowin 2008 as it wasin 68. Look at it & see 2 decades of movie moments that this film inspired. Seminal is the critical description & it is true. See with Kes & it's like an ultrasound photo of modern Britain. An important film from when they made important films.
BRILLIANT - By: Ms. Harriet L. Fisher, 12 Jul 2008 Imagine if you will, Dvid Lynch's Mullholand Drive or Blue Velvet meeting St Trinians or Clockwork Orange or American History X. THIS FILM IS EXCELLENT. AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN THE TOP 50 FILMS OF ALL TIMES. BY THE WAY, SP SHOULD THE HILL, DEVILS REJECTS, JACKIE BROWN, MONSTER, THE 400 BLOWS, LA HAINE, CITY OF GOD AND SEVERAL OTHERS. PLEASE WATCH THESE FILMS (BUT DONT START WITH DEVILS REJECTS COZ SOME PEOPLE WONT LIKE IT)!!!!
If.... you were there... - By: Robert Machin, 04 Jun 2008 
'If....' was a great film when it came out, but I'm not convinced that it still is. Really great movies are timeless, but 'If....' is very much of its decade. On the plus side, much of the film is grittily, sometimes brutally, realistic, almost foreshadowing institutional movies of the 80s such as Scum (this certainly ain't no 'History Boys'). Attention to detail around the dorms & studies is terrific, & historically fascinating, the performances are all-round good, I still love that music... I guess what lets it down is the narrative & the themes (which fundamentally come down to that old favourite, 'sticking it to The Man'), which no doubt seemed right on the moneyin 1968in the context of the Paris riots & Grosvenor Square but now seem somewhat naive. Hard, too, to see some of the experimental techniques, the clunky dialogue & the more surreal elements as other than pretentious now, refreshing & innovative as they doubtless seemedin their day.
I saw it around 1970 when I was 13, & read the screenplay, & loved both. My daughter saw it at the same age and, though she laughed at quite a few scenes (it is a pretty funny filmin places), she was baffled by most of it. 'Why does it keep going black & white?'. 'Why is the Chaplainin a drawer?'. I was damned if I could provide many good answers.
If you were there or thereaboutsin the late sixties, or early seventies, you'll love it as a) a pretty good film, b) a period curiosity & c) a bit of a nostalgia trip, probablyin that order. A great film? Hmmm... maybe you had to be there.
If.......... you havent seen it then do so. - By: Mr. Terry D. Jarvis, 31 Jan 2008 
I cant belive i have gone so long without seeing it.This movie blew me away.The final scenein the film is something i would have loved to have done at school (im not even joking there)I wont give away to much becuase if you have seen it you will love it if yu havent then go fourth & see it now.
Entertaining, but scary movie... - By: FAMOUS NAME, 22 Nov 2007 'If' was one of those movies I just had to watch when I was a child & young adult - though it terrified mein places... This is an interesting picture that for some reason, the viewer is unable to detract from one single scene! Malcolm McDowell seems an unlikely leadin this curious film. (a guy incidentally, whose peculiar looks have got better as he has got older) I remember thinking the character 'Rowntree' (played by the late Robert Swann) was divinely handsome, but being utterly afraid of him at the same time... I guess this is what is so good about the film; that it comes across with the message it so wants to portray. About the only reassuring figurein the whole film was the headmaster (played by Peter Jeffrey) he really made me feel more 'comfortable' & reassured with the whole thing - sadly, his character is one that comes to a most awful & undeserving end... Christine Noonan is excellent as 'the girl', & I'm sure that everyone would agree that all the cast give a tremendous performancein this.
An unusual film that is shotin both black & white & colour, & has been an amazingly, & surprisingly very long timein coming out on DVD.
Contains a set of collectable postcards from the movie.
