Best movie of this year hands down!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

best movie i've ever seen.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Cant believe I missed this one in the 90s.Mix of Warriors, mad max, terminator, class of 1984.lots of cheese and violence.see it with open mind and chill.silly and watchable .

Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot. The teachers do a good job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far with their punishments, and some students get suspicious.....Its proper exploitation stuff, and with a title like this has, what else were you expecting?Well I for one was expecting something that was going to be a lot more fun, and although it does have the odd moment of genius, it gets just a little too serious, and a little too Red Dawn for its own good come the end.The concept though is fantastic. We have a hilarious looking Stacy Keach, finding eighties fashion in the late nineties, and getting Jackie Brown, The Sandman from Death Warrant, and so e old bloke to work in the school as wannabe Terminators.There is a sub-plot featuring the guy returning to the school, from a ne'er do well family, who just happens to find out what is going on, who just happens to fancy the headmasters daughter, who just happens to be Malcom McDowell, who knows about everything, but seeing as he only did two days filming, let's just say he isn't in it for long.On paper, it sounds brilliant, and I love the directors other work. He provided me with Showdown In Little Tokyo, but this waste just.........well, boring really.It's all over the place, the one liners are bad, even for the eighties, and they have royally ripped off a certain Cyborg.Back in the day, I'm sure it was essential viewing for the university student, but now, 16 years after the title suggests, it feels old, and generic.

Mark L. Lester's follow-up to the nutty thriller Class of 1984 outcrazies it by quite a distance. Class of 1999 is a sci-fi thriller set in a high school that has been completely taken over by gangs. The principal (Malcolm McDowell) hires a government contractor (Stacy Keach, sporting bizarre, silver-irised contact lenses and a crazy white hairdo with a rat tail) to replace some of his teachers with cyborgs to keep the students in line. These cyborgs (played by Pam Grier, Patrick Kilpatrick and John P. Ryan) have about the worst programming imaginable. On the first day they beat the students down (Ryan has the film's most memorable scene, administering spankings to two of the students). On the second day they start murdering them. Cory Feldman lookalike Bradley Gregg plays the hero, a boy trying to go straight after serving a prison sentence for gang activity. When the cyborgs start murdering his buddies, he rejoins the gang to take them down. This is pure Velveeta - absolute B movie gold. Ryan is the stand-out of the cast. He's just hilarious as the pipe smoking robo-teacher. Keach has some great moments, too. There's one scene where he eats a banana - no one can not look like an idiot while eating a banana, and the image immediately, before the movie even ended, became my new Facebook avatar. Joshua Miller, so memorable in the vampire flick Near Dark, also appears. So many great moments, lines, hilarious bits of production design. This is one of the all-time great pieces of garbage.

Bright fluorescent bandannas, tough talk, rival gang wars, guns, guns, guns, and a rocket launcher. Several major cities have such massive gang activity that they have been deemed "free-fire zones" where the authority just threw their hands up and said "screw it, they can just have it, we are outa here!". Yet the gang bangers are required to go to school. I mean, think of it. You can shoot people, start fires, crank on as many drugs as you want. However if you skip class, you're in big trouble mister.Regardless, for a movie of its time it was really well put together. We cannot compare this type of movie to modern cinema. There is no cgi. It's makeup and animatronics. Cheesy as it is today, I feel that this class of 1999 makes for a great spot in anyone's movie library.