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A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I mean, things are so bad that the cope create free fire zones in which people are allowed to kill each other.And yet kids still feel that they have to go to school. I mean, why bother?, whats the point?They all show up for school on time everyday and afterwards go to their warzone homes with no adults and try to kill each other while making nonsensical wisecracks.The whole premise make no sense.The robots are pretty cool though, very life like.

In the future, which was 18 years ago to this writing, teens are getting more retarded (at least they got that right). Anyways, this is a sequel of some sorts to Class Of 1984 but with a cyberpunk edge. I really enjoyed this one for the action sequences, cinematography and absurd plot. The acting oscillates between good and $#!+ and blah blah. I hope this review was unintelligible and not helpful, t#@t.

Mark L. Lesters' belated follow-up to his big cult hit "Class of 1984" is about as glorious as this sort of thing gets, introducing science fiction into the formula of youth gangs out of control. It takes place in the "future" year of 1999, when sections of major U.S. cities are simply given over to gangs, sections which the police don't enter. These sections are called "free fire zones". In the middle of one such hellhole, a high school named Kennedy meets its three new teachers, in reality cyborgs which won't tolerate any misbehaviour. It doesn't take too long for the cyborgs to revert to their original military programming and see *all* the students as nuisances or threats. So two gangs are forced to team up with each other to wage war on the teachers. You know you're in for a good time with those opening credits / exposition, and "Class of 1999" delivers so well in the cheese and camp departments that any message it's espousing ultimately has to take a backseat. In terms of production design, atmosphere, and score, this is a triumph of a B picture, one in which there's urban decay almost everywhere you look. C. Courtney Joyners' screenplay includes some gems of dialogue, and it's to the actors' credit that they can recite these lines with a straight face. Bradley Gregg ("Stand By Me", "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors") stars as supposedly reformed gang member Cody Culp, who's trying to go straight. Lovely Traci Lin is his leading lady, a serious student who happens to be the daughter of the principal, played by Malcolm McDowell. Other familiar faces include Jill Gatsby ("Maniac Cop"), Darren E. Burrows ('Northern Exposure'), Joshua John Miller ("Near Dark"), Sean Sullivan ("Wayne's World"), and Lee Arenberg (the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series), but the show is stolen by Patrick Kilpatrick, Pam Grier, and the hilarious John P. Ryan as the teachers, and Stacy Keach as the nut job "controlling" the cyborgs. Ryan even smokes a pipe, and has one memorable scene where he proceeds to spank two troublemakers on the ass. How can you NOT be amused at a movie with this kind of a scene? This warped sense of humour is just part of a package that also features enjoyable visual and makeup effects, a cracking pace, a healthy dose of violence, and some good action sequences. From beginning to end, this is full of entertainment value, right down to the cool soundtrack featuring an early Nine Inch Nails tune. All in all, this deserves its own cult status just as much as its predecessor, getting itself a sequel ("Class of 1999 II: The Substitute") four years later. A total hoot. Eight out of 10.

Bright fluorescent bandannas, tough talk, rival gang wars, guns, guns, guns, and a rocket launcher. Several major cities have such massive gang activity that they have been deemed "free-fire zones" where the authority just threw their hands up and said "screw it, they can just have it, we are outa here!". Yet the gang bangers are required to go to school. I mean, think of it. You can shoot people, start fires, crank on as many drugs as you want. However if you skip class, you're in big trouble mister.Regardless, for a movie of its time it was really well put together. We cannot compare this type of movie to modern cinema. There is no cgi. It's makeup and animatronics. Cheesy as it is today, I feel that this class of 1999 makes for a great spot in anyone's movie library.