If you were to take the worst parts of "Terminator," "Class of 1984," "Red Dawn," "Escape From New York," and "River's Edge" and made it into a movie then that movie would still be better than "Class of 1999."
The year is 1999 and gang violence in schools in major cities across the country has gotten so bad that police refuse to even go into areas which have a high school. Those areas are called "Free-Fire Zones" and it looks like something out of "Mad Max" where kids rule everything. The schools are an extension of the streets with drugs, violence, and mayhem, which begs the question: why even go to school? The school is literally just and edifice for more of the same barbarism that occurs in the kids' neighborhood.
One such high school that this movie decided to focus on was Kennedy High School in Seattle. A company called Mega Tech created robots called Tactical Education Units to be used as teachers and they were going to whip the school in shape. If the children did not respond to direct orders, then physical force would be used to ensure compliance.
Things got out of hand when the robots increased their violent tactics to control behavior problems. Much like the robots in "Terminator," they begin to adapt their own programming and use a more militaristic and punitive approach to education.
What I did not understand was: what was wrong with these robots? I mean, all they were doing was exterminating some cretinous killers and dope fiends to begin with. This entire area was rife with human filth who were only itching to kill themselves anyway. The droids were the good guys in this movie IMO.
I don't understand what's the point of making a movie where you have protagonists who are probably even more disgusting than the antagonists. I was rooting for the bots. They were already in a war zone. Were they bad because they were more effective killers? Or were they bad because they targeted minors? Or were they bad because their creator stood to get rich off of their killing?
The walking garbage in the Free-Fire Zone was unsalvageable in any case much like this movie. The robots just accelerated their disposable and it's just like people to be upset by robots doing a better job.
The year is 1999 and gang violence in schools in major cities across the country has gotten so bad that police refuse to even go into areas which have a high school. Those areas are called "Free-Fire Zones" and it looks like something out of "Mad Max" where kids rule everything. The schools are an extension of the streets with drugs, violence, and mayhem, which begs the question: why even go to school? The school is literally just and edifice for more of the same barbarism that occurs in the kids' neighborhood.
One such high school that this movie decided to focus on was Kennedy High School in Seattle. A company called Mega Tech created robots called Tactical Education Units to be used as teachers and they were going to whip the school in shape. If the children did not respond to direct orders, then physical force would be used to ensure compliance.
Things got out of hand when the robots increased their violent tactics to control behavior problems. Much like the robots in "Terminator," they begin to adapt their own programming and use a more militaristic and punitive approach to education.
What I did not understand was: what was wrong with these robots? I mean, all they were doing was exterminating some cretinous killers and dope fiends to begin with. This entire area was rife with human filth who were only itching to kill themselves anyway. The droids were the good guys in this movie IMO.
I don't understand what's the point of making a movie where you have protagonists who are probably even more disgusting than the antagonists. I was rooting for the bots. They were already in a war zone. Were they bad because they were more effective killers? Or were they bad because they targeted minors? Or were they bad because their creator stood to get rich off of their killing?
The walking garbage in the Free-Fire Zone was unsalvageable in any case much like this movie. The robots just accelerated their disposable and it's just like people to be upset by robots doing a better job.