Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot.
The teachers do a good job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far with their punishments, and some students get suspicious.....
Its proper exploitation stuff, and with a title like this has, what else were you expecting?
Well I for one was expecting something that was going to be a lot more fun, and although it does have the odd moment of genius, it gets just a little too serious, and a little too Red Dawn for its own good come the end.
The concept though is fantastic.
We have a hilarious looking Stacy Keach, finding eighties fashion in the late nineties, and getting Jackie Brown, The Sandman from Death Warrant, and so e old bloke to work in the school as wannabe Terminators.
There is a sub-plot featuring the guy returning to the school, from a ne'er do well family, who just happens to find out what is going on, who just happens to fancy the headmasters daughter, who just happens to be Malcom McDowell, who knows about everything, but seeing as he only did two days filming, let's just say he isn't in it for long.
On paper, it sounds brilliant, and I love the directors other work. He provided me with Showdown In Little Tokyo, but this waste just.........well, boring really.
It's all over the place, the one liners are bad, even for the eighties, and they have royally ripped off a certain Cyborg.
Back in the day, I'm sure it was essential viewing for the university student, but now, 16 years after the title suggests, it feels old, and generic.
The teachers do a good job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far with their punishments, and some students get suspicious.....
Its proper exploitation stuff, and with a title like this has, what else were you expecting?
Well I for one was expecting something that was going to be a lot more fun, and although it does have the odd moment of genius, it gets just a little too serious, and a little too Red Dawn for its own good come the end.
The concept though is fantastic.
We have a hilarious looking Stacy Keach, finding eighties fashion in the late nineties, and getting Jackie Brown, The Sandman from Death Warrant, and so e old bloke to work in the school as wannabe Terminators.
There is a sub-plot featuring the guy returning to the school, from a ne'er do well family, who just happens to find out what is going on, who just happens to fancy the headmasters daughter, who just happens to be Malcom McDowell, who knows about everything, but seeing as he only did two days filming, let's just say he isn't in it for long.
On paper, it sounds brilliant, and I love the directors other work. He provided me with Showdown In Little Tokyo, but this waste just.........well, boring really.
It's all over the place, the one liners are bad, even for the eighties, and they have royally ripped off a certain Cyborg.
Back in the day, I'm sure it was essential viewing for the university student, but now, 16 years after the title suggests, it feels old, and generic.