This movie could have been good. It was a shame it wasn't. The only two redeeming qualities to this film were Sasha Mitchell (John Bolen)and Rick Hill (G.D. Ash.)
Sasha Mitchell plays a renegade cyborg bent on keeping order in schools, much like his predecessors in the first "Class of 1999." Rick Hill plays a government agent desperately searching for him, but not for what he leads others to believe the reasoning to be. Government agent Gordon D. Ash has his his own diabolical plans for the battle droid, if he can only catch him and get his cooperation instead of being ruthlessly murdered for his interference in the battle droid's plans.
It was a disappointment that the sequal to the very dark and very well done "Class of 1999" did not follow the first one's guidelines. Instead of being set even further in the future (in the first one, even the cars were futuristic)it seemed to be set in some remote, backwoods, hick, town.
Sasha Mitchell's performance was riveting as the cold, emotionless, calculating and cunning battle droid, posing as teacher John Bolen. His only vice, Jenna Mckenzie (played pathetically by Caitlyn Dulaney)a teacher at the school he has decided to try and straighten out. When Jenna's boyfriend Emmett Granzer (played by Nick Cassavetes in probably the worst role of his life) begins to suspect the new teacher in some murders, the danger builds until it it either Jenna or John in a showdown of wit versus evil. Throw in a pathetic performance by Gregory West as Sanders (whose name constantly changes pronunciation through out the film, sometimes being Sanders with an "s" and sometimes being Sander, with no "s"...where was the editing crew on this movie?) as a gang banging loser who is out to get Miss Mckenzie no matter what and it all adds up to one of the worst sequals ever filmed.
Sasha and Rick both should have passed these two rolls up and waited for something better. Like I said, this movie could have been good, it really could have. The story was decent and they even had flashbacks to the original "Class of 1999" so you could follow what they were trying to achieve with this storyline. However, it could only have survived with the right cast and definately a different location.
However, with a dusty park in Los Angeles and poor casting (Mitchell and Hill couldn't have been expected to carry the entire movie, yet it seemed that was what was expected of them)there really was no hope for this movie.
Sasha Mitchell plays a renegade cyborg bent on keeping order in schools, much like his predecessors in the first "Class of 1999." Rick Hill plays a government agent desperately searching for him, but not for what he leads others to believe the reasoning to be. Government agent Gordon D. Ash has his his own diabolical plans for the battle droid, if he can only catch him and get his cooperation instead of being ruthlessly murdered for his interference in the battle droid's plans.
It was a disappointment that the sequal to the very dark and very well done "Class of 1999" did not follow the first one's guidelines. Instead of being set even further in the future (in the first one, even the cars were futuristic)it seemed to be set in some remote, backwoods, hick, town.
Sasha Mitchell's performance was riveting as the cold, emotionless, calculating and cunning battle droid, posing as teacher John Bolen. His only vice, Jenna Mckenzie (played pathetically by Caitlyn Dulaney)a teacher at the school he has decided to try and straighten out. When Jenna's boyfriend Emmett Granzer (played by Nick Cassavetes in probably the worst role of his life) begins to suspect the new teacher in some murders, the danger builds until it it either Jenna or John in a showdown of wit versus evil. Throw in a pathetic performance by Gregory West as Sanders (whose name constantly changes pronunciation through out the film, sometimes being Sanders with an "s" and sometimes being Sander, with no "s"...where was the editing crew on this movie?) as a gang banging loser who is out to get Miss Mckenzie no matter what and it all adds up to one of the worst sequals ever filmed.
Sasha and Rick both should have passed these two rolls up and waited for something better. Like I said, this movie could have been good, it really could have. The story was decent and they even had flashbacks to the original "Class of 1999" so you could follow what they were trying to achieve with this storyline. However, it could only have survived with the right cast and definately a different location.
However, with a dusty park in Los Angeles and poor casting (Mitchell and Hill couldn't have been expected to carry the entire movie, yet it seemed that was what was expected of them)there really was no hope for this movie.