TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Leofwine_draca A lame, by-the-numbers science fiction thriller. Occasionally I don't know why I bother watching films; the feeling hit me when watching this. One of those absolutely pointless, low-budget sequels designed to cash in, this offers nothing at all of worth. The reason I got it? The pictures on the box, sad to say. They showed some androids which looked pretty good, but on actual viewing of the film, there is none of this. In fact the reason I watched it was to wait and see the actual special effects of the robots - which were shown on the back cover. Come the twist ending, I realised that I had been horribly mislead. The substitute of the title is in fact NOT an android, instead a de-programmed man who struggles with his human nature. What a letdown!The only special effects of note are a few uninspired death scenes and shootings - but there's no gore to speak of, at least nothing is as graphic as you would come to expect. The film shambles on from scene to boring scene, involving us in stupid and pointless teachers who sleep together a lot, argue and fight. The acting is incredibly bad - even worse than in a television movie. The substitute bloke is played by someone out of KICKBOXER 2, which tells you something about the level this film achieved. I had a quick look at some info on the first film in this series, and was amazed to see the cast including Malcolm McDowell and Pam Grier. What happened here! We get one nobody and a whole group of non-actors and actresses. It's insulting.While there are a few okay-ish moments involving the sub murdering the students he doesn't like, these aren't really handled very well at all. They're not violent enough and there's nothing memorable. What little budget was available was obviously wasted on some huge explosions, which are nice to look at but, as is the case with the rest of the film, lack substance. How many times do we have to watch the android bloke walk towards the camera while something explodes behind him? To make matters worse, some interesting-looking clips are shown - from the first film, presumably, just to rub in what we're missing out on here.The big finale involves happenings at a paintball game, giving you some idea of the tiny scale events are played out on here. You know it's a low budget film when the background is bare and lacking in decoration or other actors (as it frequently is here). Events draw out for a ridiculously suspended "will he kill he or won't he" sequence where the substitute repeatedly tries to kill the heroine before being stopped (either by himself or by somebody else). I could have told you the outcome from reading the back of the box. This is a film to avoid at all costs, as it's entirely, utterly pointless.

Comeuppance Reviews In the future of 1999, punks rule the hallways and classrooms of our nation's schools. Sure, they may look like they're between 35 and 40 years old, but they still enjoy spray-painting the walls and causing general mayhem. But not if John Bolen (Mitchell) has anything to say about it. Bolen is a stone-faced cybernetic organism that believes just about everything in the world "leads to anarchy". So he stops problems at their source by violently killing anyone he believes to be a no-goodnik. When a young, pretty, and somewhat naive teacher, Jenna McKensie (Dulany) wants to testify in a trial because she witnessed a murder perpetrated by evil student in his mid 30's Sanders (West), school authorities do nothing, local cops advise against it, and her boyfriend Emmett (Cassavetes) is relatively ineffectual. It's a good thing John Bolen is here to bring corporal punishment back to the school system! For some unknown reason, Jenna actually takes a shine to the possibly misunderstood killer robot. But when Bolen flips out and can no longer "maintain order", will he mistakenly turn on Jenna? Find out today! Why a second sequel to Class of 1984 (1982) - let's not forget about Class of 1999 (1990) - technically speaking, needed to exist, we don't exactly know - but there's plenty of fun to be had here. Because it was filmed in the 90's, it not only has some VR (because in the future students will learn using those big, bulky masks), but the final third of the film actually is a Paintball Gone Wrong, or PGW, slog. But therein lies one of the problems with the movie. It moves along at a nice clip for a little over the first half, but then slows way down towards the end. It's almost like a robot running out of fuel. It needed to have a giant lunch like John Bolen does in the movie. The movie is at is best when Bolen is going around killing punks, but can that sustain a whole 90 minute film? Sasha Mitchell is great as Bolen. Imagine a robotic Keanu Reeves. Which shouldn't be too tough. Mitchell as this Keanu-bot shines in his role, especially when he just stands there emotionlessly after walking away from an explosion. Most people would continue to walk. He just stands. That's just how emotionless he is. He really meets his match against the punks (even in the end credits, they're known as "punks"). They tend to wear jumpsuits, and have strange makeup and bizarre hair. Because it's the future, you see. Sometimes they even wear their jumpsuit with a leather vest. Now that's a fashion statement. But as we've seen before, Bolen has an all-black "revenge outfit" that he puts on when things get serious. Mitchell has some good lines and some very entertaining stone-faces that help the movie along. But once it gets to the PGW section, the movie as a whole seems to lose focus and go off the rails.The whole venture is classic 90's, from the VR to the PGW. The VHS seemed to be a video store mainstay back in the day. While some people may say this movie is nothing more than a "Substitute" for a better film, we say it brings back video store memories and isn't bad. And any movie that takes place in the future which is now the past gets extra points in our book.

Frank Markland Sasha Mitchell stars as John Bolen the robot teacher who is the only connection to it's moronic predecessor, in this movie he unleashes stern justice to gangs that sorely need it and in the process saves a teacher from the bad guy gang, while killing the usual innocent by standers. Despite what some will say, Class Of 1999 II is at least a vast improvement over Class Of 1999. The movie is at least somewhat balanced and the carnage never overwhelms the movie. However Sasha Mitchell is terribly miscast in the role, Mitchell is an actor who has a watchable screen presence (He was quite likable in Kickboxer 2, Kickboxer 3 and Kickboxer 4) but his whole nice guy approach fails to translate into a truly menacing figure. Class Of 1999 II:The Substitute actually starts out fairly well with Mitchell dispatching a gang not that unfamiliar from the gang in Class Of 1984 but after we hit the subplot involving a teacher who witnessed a shooting and the new gang's antics to force her not to testify. It becomes apparent this lame melodrama has been added to pad out the running time. The movie actually manages to become watchable whenever Mitchell springs into action but because the movie lingers to much on the clichéd boredom of the gang and the teacher the movie stops dead in it's tracks. Although the climax provides great black comedy as Mitchell dispatches innocent kids with poker faced (yet hilarious) seriousness. Also the action is competently staged and I guess on this angle the film works but I for one was far too bored with the unnecessary padding. So at the end of the day, you have a sequel (Which should be part 3) that is better than it's first predecessor but far inferior to the exploitation classic that spawned it and no amount of kickboxing from Mitchell will change this fact.*1/2 out of 4-(Poor)

Mike Well I never saw the first class of 1999 so I can't say anything about that. But Class of 1999 part II was okay. OK the acting was pretty bad and there were too many corny lines that were tried to be played off seriously, but the fighting was good when there was some (the movie was a little boring), Sasha Mitchell really does know how to fight in real life so at least the hand to hand fighting was realistic and somewhat interesting. Perhaps the best reason to watch this movie is the incredibly hot lead lady played by Caitlin Dulany. Although her character is naive, corny, and a little overplayed, She's still very hot and she was willing to do a nude sex scene in this film so it wasn't a total waste of time. Overall I give this movie a 6/10 rating. Maybe I didn't think the movie was so terrible because I like Sasha Mitchell and hot babes that do sex scenes. I guess I would recommend this movie.