With the help of a rag-tag group of friends this young man organizes a complex scheme to steal copies of the test papers from the Department of Education and, upon winning, show the world he has beaten the system.

[5] Writing for Variety, critic Emanuel Levy praised the film's "droll humor that is occasionally laced with irony", as well as Jones's "technical panache.

"[2] He added, "Once the premise has been set and central characters established, the film becomes less funny and more suspenseful regarding the final outcome of the scandalous act.

Compensating for the plot’s narrow focus are the helmer’s bold visual style and the intermittently witty voiceover narration.

[6][7][4] Anxiety was partly due to the timing of the film's release, which occurred a few months before the annual summer exams.