Class of 1999

Take Escape From New York, Mad Max and Terminator, blend those stories and ideas and produce on a limited budget, voila you get something like Class of 1999. But on the Cheese-o-meter I can give this piece of "art" just a max rate of 3. Maybe in my teens I have loved this one more but as an adult this misses everything that makes an action post-apocalyptic movie interesting: action, violence, some interesting characters. Some kids in leather jackets posing as tough guys with guns and some shootings do not make an entertaining movie. Class of 1999 proves that.

One of the reviewers here called this a "trashy and no brainer film" as he was praising it and... never was a truer word spoken. Especially since it was said in praise. This is, honestly, the kind of movie I stayed up well past my bedtime, in the basement, to catch on HBO. This is 10 year-old boy bliss. This is made for those night owls that aren't looking for Chinatown, they are looking for mindless fun. And what could be more mindless and fun than high school, robot teachers, and over-the-top street gangs in a post apocalyptic education system that, honestly, probably works more as an accurate satire today that it does pointless B-movie bliss. Which leads me to the point in the review where I say, if you are going to give it a bad review because of the stupid plot or the lack of quality in the special effects, or the over-the-top story... what kind of movie did you think you were sitting down to watch?