| RATING: | 40% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Moulding Young Minds
Whites, terrified their children are fast turning into feral animals (ie, Blacks), recruit robots to instill discipline in gang-controlled schools in the near future. The dearth of Black students reveals the White suburban-ghetto nightmare (& White fantasies of living in better neighborhods than anyone else) this movie attempts to exploit in claiming that even the police are frightened to go into school districts.
An absurd, politically-contextless premiss, that would have been more effective done as a comedy, here serves merely to present us a with a regularly-occurring dose of screen violence and well-done action set-pieces, alongside the waste of considerable screen talent: Pam GRIER, Stacy KEACH & Malcolm McDOWELL.
The characterization is abysmal and the actors have little more to mouthe than trite clichés amid all the drug-fuelled mayhem. If...., Terminator or Bowling for Columbine it is not.
One wonders if there will ever be schools as we know them today in the future since they are attended by adolescents who clearly do not wish to be there so will lose their all-important socialization function.
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