Product Details

• Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Alex Karzis, Kata Dobó, Corey Sevier, Dov Tiefenbach
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English, Hungarian
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: January 13, 2004
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000TSQUC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,832 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Detention" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Please Report to "Detention", April 21, 2004

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Timotee (Torrance, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Detention (DVD)

Dolph Lundgren has finally done it! He finally decided to school his enemies at, well, a school! Yes! A genius indeed, Dolphage played an ex-soldier named Sam Decker who taught at a less-than-continuation school where cussing is the only language the kids know and girls are pregnant everywhere. "Detention" is so bad, it's good! Stereotypes have never been used this much, but the director achieved major insult to teens. Decker wanted to quit since he finally realized that High School High was below him and that the kids stunk, but the principal demanded that he stay and watch one, final detention class. Pity. A group of maniacs who dressed like Billy Idol took over the school and 'locked down' the school property. Of course, the movie went into "Under Siege" mode and Decker became a one-man army. The children band together and unite! A girl goes into labor, a wheelchair bound teen goes into a flurry and manages to outrun a motorcycle, another boy lives his self-fulfilling prophecy of actually getting courage to fight back and the whole gang construct this metallic/spike/shield thingy and fight bad guys in the gym! What an extremely entertaining movie and Dolph Lordgren delivers high-caliber action once again. What a deity he is! Yes! Two hots, thumbs up, and ten toes up, all the way!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Detention, November 17, 2009

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Tasha Duncan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Detention (DVD)

Detention is a movie where a veteran-turned-teacher is stuck watching four students in detention on his last day of work. Also in the school after hours is a wheelchair bound student and one security guard. Shortly after everyone is locked in, a band of drug smugglers break into the school and all hell breaks loose. The students are running from their teacher, their teacher is running from the murderous drug smugglers, and soon the drug smugglers are running from their targets! The students fight back using the school's archery equipment, while their teacher uses the school's metal shop to create a weapon capable of a decent amount of destruction, and time is running out with a bomb in the basement....Will the school still be standing on Monday? Will the students make it out alive? Sometimes the greatest lessons are learned in Detention!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars STAYING AFTER CLASS CAN BE HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH, March 13, 2008

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Mark Turner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Detention (DVD)

Okay, I tend to like Dolph Lundgren movies. But that's because I pretty much know what it going to happen in each one. Too bad he comes off as a poor man's Steven Segal. Which says a lot since Segal seems to be heading in a downward spiral.

Lundgren stars as a high school teacher and ex Special Forces expert. About to leave his job, his boss assigns him one last job, taking care of detention. As if having to harness and take care of these malcontents from class, a group of supposed terrorists are in the process of taking over the school once all of the students, save for these, have left.

It turns out that these are not terrorists but a group of heavily armed thieves planning the heist of an armored car. Along with their machine guns they bring along a ton of explosives.

But there's more. It seems that this group of psychotic criminals is not alone. They have ties into the government. But Dolph isn't going to play that game. Instead, he does what he can to protect the students and once he thinks that's done, heads out to deal with these crooks one to one.

These sorts of movies feel more cookie cutter style the more they come out on video. Are they entertaining? In some ways. Are they original? Not nearly as much as they should be. But they do provide a momentary does of escape from the real world.

If you've seen one Dolph Lundgren movie then you know what to expect. Plenty of gunfire, fist fights and explosions. If that isn't your cup of tea then pass it by. But if the shelves seem a little empty at the video store and this is there, you might want to give it a try.