whirlygirl suffers primarily from a bad script and poor direction . the script lack the closure of a third act while we be leave hang think there need to be something more . there be a rescuer scene which i guess the director think would be a climax but the movie have an episodic feel to it . this film be base on a true story . well the scriptwriter should have embellish it since true story do not make compelling film . the lead actor julian morris do a decent job with the material but the rest of the cast performance be flat . in fact one of the student and who be act like he be just wake up have a believability level of zero . speaking of morris and i have just watch him in cry wolf where he also play a prep school student and his character seem to have walk out of that slasher movie into this one . slasher movie can get by without any character development but a film like whirlygirl require it . hat off to dp christo bakalov for deliver some great image to such a hollow story .