Review of Detention: The Siege at Johnson High

I caught this TV movie thriller under the title TARGET FOR RAGE. It's a rather safe, occasionally bland re-run of the American high school shootings craze, based on a true story and fictionalised somewhat. The story is given the usual TV movie treatment so there's a definite emphasis on melodrama and mannered acting, as well as lots of padding involving police investigation and the like. The cast is nothing special here, featuring Freddie Prinze Jr. just before he got famous in I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, and Henry Winkler as one of the cops. The classroom scenes are certainly dramatic but compared to other hostage movies (like THE NEGOTIATOR) this is nothing special.