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• Actors: Lee Arenberg, Linda Burden-Williams, Darren E. Burrows, Barbara Coffin, Brent Fraser
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• 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
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: September 16, 2008
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001BNFR8A
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,863 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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The time is the future and youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free fire zones," into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford (Malcolm McDowell), the principal of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest (Stacy Keach) provides "tactical education units." These human-like androids have been programmed to teach and are supplied with weapons to discipline problems. These kids will get a lesson...in staying alive!!!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost Time For The Ten Year Reunion, September 27, 2008

By	Stanley Runk "Runkdapunk" (Camp North Pines) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

If you were to take Mad Max, The Terminator, The Warriors and Lean On Me, and mix them in a blender, you'd get Class of 1999. It was directed by Mark Lester who made the excellent Class of 1984. This movie is sometimes considered a sequel to that film, but it isn't. Both movies have high schools and violent gangs, but that's where all comparisons end.
In the near future of 1999, violent street gangs have taken over, so bad that the police don't even bother with certain areas of the city(sounds like Death Wish 3!). The damn kids are still required to go to school though! A mullet and contact lens sporting Stacy Keach has taken military battle androids and given them new programs to act as teachers. Three of these androids are given a test run at the worst school in the city where Malcolm McDowell is principal. Meanwhile, ex-gangbanger, Cody, is released from prison and he's off to school. Renouncing his old gang ways, he quickly becomes the target for former gang members and old gang rivals. His brother, Angel, is now in the fold and snorting drugs(as well as his mother!), much to Cody's disappointment(sounds like American History X). Cody gets his groove on with the principal's daughter and tries to stay out of trouble, but he seems to be the only one noticing something odd about the three new teachers. At first they merely beat the snot out of the misbehaving punks, but soon their old military program starts to take over and then it's full out war on the students. Now Cody has to join his old gang and team up with his rival(who looks like Kevin Dubrow from Quiet Riot) to fight back against the android faculty.
Needless to say, this is a fun movie. Not quite as good as Class Of 1984(that movie kicks some serious butt!), but a good time nonetheless. Sure, the subject matter is obviously kinda silly, but the tone of the movie is rather grim and, serious and violent. It's an interesting turn to see the murderous thugs become the heroes of the film.
Aside from McDowell and Keach, we also have Pam Grier as one of the deadly teachers. Most of the cast is made up of actors straight from the "I've seen that guy in movies before, but I can't remember his name" school. The hero, Cody, is played by Bradley Gregg who you all may remember as "Eyeball" from Stand By Me. Or for the horror fans, the unlucky sleepwalker who gets turned into a living puppet by Freddy Krueger in Nightmare 3. His brother, Angel, is played by Joshua Miller, that annoying kid from the vampire bunch in Near Dark. John P Ryan, the father in Larry Cohen's It's Alive is one of the androids. The third android is stock villain Patrick Kilpatrick, who we all know and love as "The Sandman" from the VanDamme prison extravaganza, Death Warrant.
It all sounds like too much fun to even handle, doesn't it? Well, you can probably handle it, so give it a whirl. Of course if you had HBO years back, you've probably seen this numerous times.

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4.0 out of 5 stars wonderful sci fi memories, September 21, 2008

By	Noel Sebastian - See all my reviews

This movie was great. I had the VHS version of this and used to catch it when it was on Cine max back in the early 90's. The story premise was the government were gonna use cyborgs to control a gang war zone ridden school. The cyborgs were teachers that look human (just like terminator)and eventually go crazy and start brutally killing some gang member students. This causes all out gore human vs. cyborg war. Not like a Troma movie at all. If you liked Chopping Mall and Terminator, this is not something you want to miss.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Sci/Fi Actioner, February 6, 2009

By	M. A. Catton "Mike C" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If action/sci-fi movies are your choice,don't overlook this pic.Directed by Mark E. Lester,it is set in a school in a lawless area that police won't even visit.The teachers are androids and are programmed to teach the kids by whatever means necessary!! It was preceded by "Class of 1984" which is great also (all human characters!) and there is a 3rd movie "Class Of 199 II:The Substitute",which,I personally feel to be the weakest of the set (perhaps because it is a different director and production house).You won't be disappointed by the 1st and 2nd movies,guaranteed!!