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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Brutal lesson life !
Review: This is a very dark film . Kevin Reynolds illuminating allows him to describe somberly the hard and bitter conflicts with the students in a High school, but this picture has nothing in common with To sir with love .
This is much more than a simple fairy tale . Carefully made script and a brilliant performance given for Samuel Jackson


Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This movie is awesome.
Review: This is my favorite movie. The ending is very touching. I can watch this movie over and over again. The movie has alot of obscene language in it, but this movie is awesome.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't bother.
Review: This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Gross, dark and pointless. If I could I would give it zero stars.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 187
Review: This moive is quiet cool. is about a teacher. that become totally crazy. its really good movie!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Kill the Kids!: A Neo-Conservative Fantasy
Review: This movie is frightening. Not because of any reality it portrays--reality is a scarce commodity in this film. But frightening exactly because of the kind of comments in the reviews above. Having been a white teacher working in the same schools in the same area depicted in the movie, I can assure you that most teachers do not experience what is presented. It casts teachers as victims of some kind of "immoral brown hoard" run amock. Although the main character is black, it is only a ruse to put a dark mask on white supremacist fantasies of dangerous immigrant bodies and irrational cultural beliefs dragging a "once great nation" (i.e. - White nation) through the mud. If anything, the movie accurately depicts what it must be like for Newt Gingrich or Pat Buchanan to spend the day as a substitute teacher in the San Fernando Valley. My experience has been that if anything ever happens to a teacher--which is much more rare than the movie depicts--it is because the teacher is abusive to the students. Most inner-city teachers learn to connect to students of color, whether they are in a gang or not. I laughed at its complete sense of unfounded moral panic, but I was left frightened because I know that there are many who think like the teachers depicted. And finally, Samuel L. Jackson should know better.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: This movie really tells what goes on in gangs and how teachers feel and deal with gang members. It was non-stop action and kept you thinking and on the edge of your seat. This is a great movie and tells it like it is!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: This movie really tells what goes on in gangs and how teachers feel and deal with gang members. It was non-stop action and kept you thinking and on the edge of your seat. This is a great movie and tells it like it is!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Well-done movie, but be prepared for a dark ending.
Review: This movie was very well done, but I recommend it with reservations. It's a very dark movie, and I came away from it feeling depressed about the American school system. It is a high-impact movie, and one that is unfortunately true to life in some parts of the country. Is it any wonder that so few good people are going into teaching, and so many good teachers quit?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great, suspenseful movie!
Review: This movie was wonderful! I never wanted to get up while watching it. Samuel L. Jackson played a great role and did a outstanding job just like the other actors. This movie is a must see!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: OK, so I'm not a Top1000 Reviewer . . .
Review: This movie, arguably one of Samuel L. Jackson's best performances, tells a very real, very gripping story that you can read about in the other reviews. This review is mostly in response to one of the reviews down below, in which the reviewer says that he couldn't remember anything about this movie a week after he watched it.

The final scene of this movie is so profound and so downright shocking, that I don't see how anyone could forget it. It drives home its point like a slap across the face: REALLY GOOD Teachers give lessons for their students in EVERYTHING that they do. In this case, it was not so much the lesson that was shocking, but HOW it was taught.

I saw only the last 2/3 of this movie over 3 months ago and even then, I still can't get it out of my head. Definitely worth seeing!


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