Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

DeuceWild_77 Where do i start ? John Singleton's "Higher Learning" only achieves in his last sentence typed on the screen that reads: "unlearn". And that was the motto to his badly written script and only God knows why this was green-lighted. The stereotyped & 'cartoon-ish' characters & unreal situations were shameful even for the 1995 standards. All the white characters in this move are either evil or messed up, the black ones are all strong, intelligent like some sort of Martin Luther King's clones doing College. Performance-wise the badly directed cast can't do much more, because their characters & motivations were so underdeveloped & childish penned that could blush the "After School Special". I don't even know who is the worst of it, if Laurence Fishburne's irritating over the top acting with terrible accent; Omar Epps' funny facial faces during melodrama; Ice Cube & Busta just playing themselves or Jennifer Connelly's creepy acting like if she was in a Dario Argento flick. The only redeeming factors in the acting department was the excellent character actor, Michael Rapaport as the loner from Idaho which became a neo-nazi & the leader of the pack played by the always interesting & very underrated, Cole Hauser. The movie is full of symbolisms promoting race war and black superiority in the current day's society and add nothing to solve it or even give it a proper end. Some lead characters just disappears during the last half hour (most notorious absences are Ice Cube & Jennifer Connelly) and their sub-plots are left open, especially the underdeveloped love triangle between Kristy Swanson's lesbian relationship with Jen and that long-haired hippie fellow that i can't even remember the actor's name (Jason Willes, perhaps... ?) but... who cares ? The character played by Jay Fergusson 'rapes' Kristy Swanson, and then offends Regina King by phone calling her a "black bitch", next scene we watch the Ice Cube's gangsta gang invading an all white fraternity with dozens of students, catch Fergusson and forcing him to, not only ask for forgiveness, but also to say that the black ladies are the master race. Gimme a break, John Singleton !! And the skinheads vs. blacks' street brawl, four blacks including skinny doped Busta Rhymez take on and win the fight against five shaped skinheads, including one of them (the 6' 5½" Andrew Bryniarski) that alone could have K.O.'d all the blacks in less than a minute. This movie is downright unrealistic, stupid, racist and a waste of time. Please, do yourself a favor and avoid this at all costs.

kai ringler At Columbus University there is about to be a race war,, blacks vs the skin heads,, the skin heads also hate Jews, gay, and lesbian. Omar Epps plays a college Professor,, Tyra Banks does a good job in her role.. Kristy Swanson also did okay,, there is a "rape" scene in the movie,, but on to other stuff like how the "Skinheads" were aloud to roam free after beating up a gay couple,, sit down and eat lunch just like nothing happened. Film takes a turn with the violence being served up, and it hits you over the head like a hammer, there are also sexuality issues, in the movie,, a teacher battling to try and get thru to the kids he is teaching,, film shows college life with black and whites trying to do the best they can to get along,, very interesting look at racism,, not to be missed, just don't take everything too seriously, as the filmmaker took a lot of liberties,, with what actually would happen in real life.

nubian_rose89 This was a good movie. I don't understand the reviews that it was skewed in its portrayals of whites as the villains and the blacks as the downtrodden victims who just won't take anymore. I personally think that it was very balanced in that area. There were stupid white people and stupid black people. What I would think is the most skewed is it's portrayal of the men as the villains and the women as the angelic do gooders. I think it ignored the fact that women can be just as awful, but tend not to be as outwardly violent, but I guess you can't have it all in one movie or else it would have been like 5 hours long. It showed Remmy's decent in a sympathetic light and in Fudge we saw that entitlement thinking in the black mentality is just as harmful as it is in the white mentality. Ultimately the only difference I saw in the white supremacist group and in Fudge's group was their skin color. Black or white, they were ALL red- blooded, self-entitled, American idiots. I thought that point was brilliantly made in the movie.

Demetrio_Dagieu_S First of all yes I'm white, so I try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race... anyway... White People Hating Black people = BAD but Black People Hating White people = OK (because apparently we deserved it!!). where do i start? i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes: the infamous scene were Ice Cube and co. get in a fight with some really big, really strong, really really angry and scary looking Neo-Nazis and win!!! the neo-Nazi where twice the size :), and the chase! the chase is priceless... This is NOT a movie about race, tolerance and understanding, it doesn't deliver... this is a racist movie that re-affirm all the cliché stereotypes, the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead...cmon simply awful I do regret ever seeing it.Save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written ,poorly acted, dull and clearly biased picture, if you are into the subject, go and Rent American History X, now thats a movie