Class of 1999

Original/Lightning. Director Mark L. Lester; Producer Mark L. Lester; Screenplay C. Courtney Joyner; Camera Mark Irwin; Editor Scott Conrad; Music Michael Hoenig

Bradley Gregg
Traci Lind
Malcolm McDowell
Stacy Keach
Pam Grier
John P. Ryan

A followup to the 1982 pic Class of 1984 this violent exploitation film is too pretentious for its own good. Director Mark L. Lester takes a cynical, fake-hip view of young people's future.

The inconsistent screenplay posits high-schoolers out of control. So-called free-fire zones have been set up in urban areas around the schools as no man's land, and are literally under the control of youth gangs.

Hamming it up as an albino megalomaniac, Stacy Keach is carrying out an experiment sending three androids reconverted from army surplus to serve as teachers at Kennedy H.S. in Seattle and whip the students into shape. Simultaneously, hero Bradley Gregg has been let out of jail and returned to class at Kennedy in an experimental furlough program.

John P. Ryan and Pam Grier are loads of fun as the androids, latter mocking her image when not only her breasts but inner works are revealed for the final reel through hokey makeup effects.

(Color) Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1990. Running time: 98 MIN.

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