My opinion : Rushmore portrays high school in the most Wes-esque way possible, exaggerated in the sense that everything is pushed to the extreme. Each character are well written with the exception of a highly unlikeable protagonist who comes across as a pretentious d-bag half the time he is on screen, cold, careless and above all following the two most annoying flaws one can have; childishness and being too smart for ones own good. I wanted to punch the screen quite a few times but its those preciously unique and refreshing scenes only Wes could pull off that stopped that. The predictability here is very much omnipresent, and overall this film starts out flying in every direction, but as we go along, it ends up feeling like a mountainous ride along with your head looking at your legs until you nauseate, hey at least Murray’s great here, playing the same old depressive middle aged man who young women fall for, it’s practically a cliché by now. 70/100