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Release Date:
5 September 2003 (South Korea)
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At this school today's lesson is survival. more
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A heroic high school teacher leads a band of students trapped in school by violent drug-runners. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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It could be used as punishment!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dolph Lundgren | ... | Sam Decker |
 | Alex Karzis | ... | Chester Lamb |
 | Kata Dobó | ... | Gloria Waylon |
 | Corey Sevier | ... | Mick Ashton |
 | Dov Tiefenbach | ... | Willy Lopez |
 | K.C. Collins | ... | Hogie Hogarth (as Chris Collins) |
| Mpho Koaho | ... | Jay Tee Barrow |
 | Larry Day | ... | Earl Hendorf |
 | Jennifer Baxter | ... | Margo Conroy |
| Danielle Hampton | ... | Alicia Roberts |
| Nicole Dicker | ... | Charlee Turkle |
 | Joseph Scoren | ... | Viktor |
 | Mif | ... | Alek |
| Roy Lewis | ... | Lyle Neeson |
 | Shawn Roberts | ... | Corey Washington |
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Rated R for strong violence and language, and for some drug content.
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USA:98 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:R (certificate #39228) |
Iceland:16 |
Finland:K-15 |
Canada:13+ (Québec) |
Australia:MA |
New Zealand:R16 |
Germany:18 |
South Korea:18 |
UK:15 |
Netherlands:12
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Chester Lamb:
Shoot them, Viktor! Shoot them in the bum!
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References First Blood (1982)
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Who's that
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| Worst Movie Ever Made?? | Wilson-35 |
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| About soundtrack.... | ante-mihelcic |
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| DOES ANY1 KNOW WHEN IT COMES OUT??? | Johnny_88 |
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A bunch of Canadian exploitation legends were put together to make this movie - writers Paul Lynch (PROM NIGHT, BULLIES) and John Sheppard (BULLIES, AMERICAN NIGHTMARE), as well as the legendary director Sidney J. Furie (IRON EAGLE IV), who lost any directorial ability he may once have had a number of years earlier! Not that Lynch and Sheppard have had exactly stellar careers.
The movie appears to be a rip-off of the 1987 movie TERROR SQUAD, which was goofy fun. You think that with more at their disposal, this movie would be better than that one. Think again. Despite the considerable budget ($10 million), movie looks extremely cheap, with the production values of Canadian TV dramas that are typically made for about a tenth of that value! That might have been forgivable had the movie been exciting, but it isn't. None of the action scenes is particularly good. In fact, a number of them have stupid touches. (Why, when Lundgren holds a shield, doesn't the shooter just shoot him in the legs? Why, when one of the protagonists knocks a bad guy down, do they immediately run away instead of using the chance to beat on them more?)
In fact, the whole movie is full of stupid things. Why would a lockdown on the school lock down the fire exits as well? If the school is locked down, how did they get to the roof? Most importantly, why on earth did the bad guys think using a high school was their best choice? In fact, the more I think about the movie, the more dumb things come to my mind. I could go on and on, but I won't. Lundgren understandably doesn't seem that enthralled by it all, but you have to give him credit for at least putting some effort in his performance. At one point, his character reads a Clive Cussler novel. Do that instead of watching this movie - you'll be a lot more entertained, I assure you!