BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

meddlecore Holy sh*t...if you only watch one horror this Halloween season...definitely make it this film!!! Class Of 1999 can be described as an amazingly perfect cheesy combination of The Warriors meets Mad Max & Punishment Park- with some Chopping Mall & Terminator on the side. Yes. It is that f*cking epic.Fully automatic gang warfare has broken out in Seattle, around Kennedy High, rendering it a "free fire zone" (meaning that police will not enter it...and there is no law). To counter this anarchic state of affairs, the US government has formed the Educational Department of Defense to step in and intervene with maximum security measures- including android teachers who dole out all manner of corporate punishment. They've also released a number of teenage criminals from jail, directly into the experimental schooling program...where zero tolerance is rule number one.Our protagonist is Cody,leader of the Blackhearts gang, who was offered clemency and released as part of this program. He's pretty reasonable compared to the rest of the punk kids at the school...which leads him to form a romantic relationship with the Principals daughter.After the battledroid teachers murder a couple of his friends, he catches a whiff of what is going on at the school. He tries to warn everybody and bring together rival factions in order to combat these unhuman psychopaths...but he has a hard time convincing them.That is until it becomes glaringly evident...cue the apocalyptic robot-human war.Turns out that these artificial intelligence androids were originally developed for warfare purposes, but then marketed to the government as a surefire way to address the youth and crime in and around America's major cities. And it seems the bots aren't absorbing their educational directives very well.This film is absolutely brilliant. There is not a single thing about this film that doesn't totally rule. It's a true cult classic.For what it is, there is a surprisingly well known cast, including Stacey Keach as the head of the DED program and Malcolm McDowell as the Principal and father of Cody's love interest.The special effects are downright, f*cking amazing. From the fight scenes to the robotic reveals. Everything about this is just awesome.And there are sooooo many great one liners.This is cheese perfected. Up there with Evil Dead 2 and AOD as a masterpiece of cult cinema. Must see.8.5 out of 10.

oprlvr33 Out of a video collection of somewhat lesser B-quality Indie films, comes this horror/suspense gem. Admittedly, I researched it beforehand, just to get a glimpse, as I'd never heard of it. Then I saw the legendary Malcom McDowell's name in the lead cast and was immediately rest-assured, it had to be good. And I was correct.This Indie gem thankfully delivers no cheesy, snowball special effects that typically ruin a good thriller. It's strictly high-octane, intensive-violence, and obvious raw language surrounding a film about street gangs and ex-Juveniles forced to attend a 'renovated' high school focused on discipline and corporal punishment; governed by a suspicious principal (McDowell) and his android cronies. Plenty of fast-action, believable fight scenes, and face-off violence, alongside decent actors who can truly act. Absolutely nothing is over the top. And the iconic Stacy Keach naturally plays the cronies's broker.

nicko252008 If your a fan of gang movies or sci fi movies you will love this one. Kind of like a horror science fiction gang movie. A lil cheesy at times but overall very entertaining. Very bad ass movie. The year is 1999 gangs have taken over major American cities, so no fire zones get created, where cops don't even patrol because their ridden with violence and gangs. Sounds amazing right? It IS!! Then the teachers are military cyborgs that end up going crazy and killing students. Def check this movie out! Such a cool unique movie, Some younger kids probably won't enjoy this movie. You have to appreciate 80's special effects to the likes of the terminator. Actually their were a couple of scenes in this movie that reminded me of the terminator. Go see this movie now.

zetes Mark L. Lester's follow-up to the nutty thriller Class of 1984 outcrazies it by quite a distance. Class of 1999 is a sci-fi thriller set in a high school that has been completely taken over by gangs. The principal (Malcolm McDowell) hires a government contractor (Stacy Keach, sporting bizarre, silver-irised contact lenses and a crazy white hairdo with a rat tail) to replace some of his teachers with cyborgs to keep the students in line. These cyborgs (played by Pam Grier, Patrick Kilpatrick and John P. Ryan) have about the worst programming imaginable. On the first day they beat the students down (Ryan has the film's most memorable scene, administering spankings to two of the students). On the second day they start murdering them. Cory Feldman lookalike Bradley Gregg plays the hero, a boy trying to go straight after serving a prison sentence for gang activity. When the cyborgs start murdering his buddies, he rejoins the gang to take them down. This is pure Velveeta - absolute B movie gold. Ryan is the stand-out of the cast. He's just hilarious as the pipe smoking robo-teacher. Keach has some great moments, too. There's one scene where he eats a banana - no one can not look like an idiot while eating a banana, and the image immediately, before the movie even ended, became my new Facebook avatar. Joshua Miller, so memorable in the vampire flick Near Dark, also appears. So many great moments, lines, hilarious bits of production design. This is one of the all-time great pieces of garbage.