Although I'm sure the intentions were good, this movie does not make it to the final. There were too many inconsistencies, clichés, bad dialogue, stereotypes, and wooden acting to be any kinder to this film. The main plot has been done so many times in so many other movies that this one would have to be exceptional in order to be remembered, and it certainly is not one I would even want to remember.

1:54 is the time needed to qualify for the juvenile 800m race in the Canadian national athletic finals. This assumes importance for Tim, a chemistry nerd and repressed homosexual, when his similarly nerdy friend and out homosexual Francis is bullied so severely by a gang led by star athlete Jeff that he commits suicide. Tim is a lapsed athlete and vows to avenge Francis by beating Jeff to the coveted nationals spot. If this were a Hollywood movie you would expect the ending to be heart-warming, life-affirming, and entirely predictable. But director/writer Yan England does not let his hero off so easily: as it becomes clear what a threat Tim is to his athletic ambition, Jeff and his mates plot their counter-revenge.Although it is hard to tell for sure - these young athletes run wearing more layers than Arctic explorers - lead actor Antoine-Olivier Pilon, a solid-looking lad, does not seem to have the body of a runner. This makes his rapid transformation into a medal contender difficult to believe. But in other ways Pilon delivers a good performance, nicely portraying the closed-in Tim's growing interest in and enthusiasm for both athletics and the friendships that being part of a team brings. If his immediate howling reaction to Jeff's revenge seemed a little overblown to me, that may well be because I have never been the teenage victim of unrelenting cyber-bullying.The cyber-bullying sequences are horrifying and I felt real sympathy for Tim - although his violent plan for dealing with the bullies quickly wiped that away. In fact, I think the film would have been a lot more effective had it ended before the final act, which seemed overly dramatic. Overall, though, it was a good watch and certainly made me glad my own teenage years are a few decades behind me...

My opinion---I saw this Canadian drama well directed by: "Yan England", this film falls into a category of already seen, with a scenario that can be said is really not original at all, that is to say The persecution in some schools of a pupil where several pupils by one or more other pupils with a sadistic or racist mentality and even very violent sowing terror on the student or pupils concerned suffer a real hell and their Life becomes dramatic. The cause is often due to either a physical aspect or a racist or sexist cause, in this case the suspicion of a student's homosexuality, and hence all the excesses (violence and abuse) Then a real journey of the combatant begins, often without many issues for this or these, hence the dramas. For this, the film tries to demonstrate the purpose of these cases of misfortune, the painful life that these students face in front of ruthless executioners. We must especially note the excellent performance of: Antoine-Olivier Pilon in the role of Tim. Conclusion, the film lets see without problem, is already good.

Just saw this movie last night and I had low expectatations. It could have been so much more. They had so much potential to make something great but we are just left out with another poor movie with terrible clichés...During the movie, everything is over the top. No one ever hides someone else in a locker. NO ONE DOES THAT EXCEPT IN THE MOVIES. Also the fact that ALL THE SCHOOL hates homosexuals except this one girl.. I mean come on this isn't 1984 anymore. This movie has a bunch of great themes like peer pressure, homosexuality, bullying, suicide, depression... and so on. They had such a good cast but some the dialogues are so terrible. I wish Xavier Dolan made this movie, it probably would have been so much better.Don't watch this movie. It's bad.. really I could have watched something a lot better.