I saw this movie last night. I had seen fragments of it before.
I must confess I'm not too impressed. I highly disagree with Al Pacino's character, especially at the end of the movie. The right decision Chris O'Donnell could have taken would have been to rat out on the perpetrators.
On the one hand we have a Harvard scholarship and on the other expulsion, possibly a little respect from 3 no-gooders with the inclination to gravitate towards messier situations. And its not like the perps would be out of the woods, given that the other guy had pointed them out to the whole school anyway.
Al Pacino's speech did not impress me either, maybe its just because I tend to tune out sentences with more than a couple of profanities in each sentence.
I also disagree with Chris O'Donnell's actions being attributed to his Integrity. Integrity should be consistent, moral soundness. Morals are a society's attributes, rather than an individual's.
If anything, the protagonist can be claimed to be doing what is right, despite what his sense of morals demand.
Its a choice, and if risking expulsion and passing up a Harvard scholarship is what the hero deems right, he is not letting his sense of morals come in the way.
Personally, I wouldn't go with that option...
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