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Well, first off, Jodi Foster, or rather, her character, is a big letdown in a way and the narrative storytelling behind the basic motivation of the movie at the beginning is a bit shaky. The production values are passable to good, but definitely not great. Jodi's nun schoolmaster should hve never have had the pegleg. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but if you got Jodi friggin' Foster, you need to do more with her...this character could have been a Nurse Ratchet considering the quality of the rest of the movie, but sadly falls short. D'Onofrio, as the school's director, is great as usual.
These bright young altar boys at a Catholic school make a comic book about Foster's authoritative schoolmarm character and they get caught, but it makes them cool. There's a bit of comic-inspired animation to accompany all this. The ringleader of the group is Kiernan and they go on to pull pranks and have other misadventures. The whole thing (except for the peg-leg) rings exceedingly true, the performances from the kids are exceptional and (caution: quasi-spolier follows) there's an ending you probably will not soon forget in its sheer power.
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