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CLASS OF 1999

1990 • US HMDB
April 1, 1990

The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!

Directors

Mark L. Lester

Cast

Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, Patrick Kilpatrick, Pam Grier, John P. Ryan, Darren E. Burrows, Joshua John Miller, Sharon Wyatt
Azione Fantascienza

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

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Future soon to come: the Kennedy school is in the hands of a group of delinquent students who do not allow the regular conduct of lessons and rule by committing acts of vandalism and all kinds of violence. The teachers are unable to remedy the situation, so the school principal decides to rely on a new project that involves the insertion of cyborgs with human-like appearance instead of teachers. Discipline will be restored, but at the cost of a massacre... A decent fanta-horror that includes among its protagonists Malcom McDowell, a cult actor for more than one generation for being the unmatched protagonist of Kubrick's masterpiece "A Clockwork Orange", here engaged in the role of the school principal. A sort of youth-oriented revisitation of Cameron's "Terminator" with good special effects and several particularly violent sequences.