SummaryRobot 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 and some students get suspicious.
Directed By:Mark L. Lester
Written By:Mark L. Lester, C. Courtney Joyner, John Skipp
Class of 1999
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Generally Unfavorable
33
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
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You gorehounds will enjoy this one. Forty-two dead bodies. Two motor-vehicle chases with one crash-and-burn and one crash-and-plunge. Neck-snapping. Fireballs. Arm-ripping. Skull-drilling. Terminal spanking. Flaming supporting actor. Brutal push-ups. Student cut in half. Puke-a-rama. Six fistfights. Attempted rape. Kung Fu. Junkie Fu. Robot Fu. Forklift Fu. [22 Nov 1991]
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A trashy teen derivative of The Road Warrior, Blade Runner, RoboCop, and every other retro-future fantasy that director Mark L. Lester could cram into the compactor.
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Jan 16, 2022
7
Perfecty entertaining late-80s schlock: Android-teachers vs. punk-gang-highschool-students! Motorcycles! Explosions!
Sep 4, 2025
6
It is an eighties looking movie set in 1999. I was alive in 1999 and I can confirm that it didn’t look especially eighties. Cheesy The Terminator (1984) inspired effects and general carnage are fine looking but dated. A normal sounding mix with tacky sounding gunfire. Otherwise ample sound with possibly slightly quiet dialogue. This reminded me of The Warriors (1979) but it wasn’t anywhere near as memorable. The robo-teachers were the most entertaining bit and even though they only really kicked off near the end. It is still well paced and entertaining. Considering that this is a low-budget b-movie there are plenty of explosions and stunts that made it far more enjoyable than it should be. It is made enjoyable by the mad stunts and brainless story.
40
Class of 1999 swiftly short-circuits on unspeakable, incessant brutality and bloodshed.
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Blood surges, splashes, drips, gushes, swamps, floods, swells, swishes, rains, slushes, shoots and smears over everything. The rest of the special effects -- a mechanical arm melting, a school chemistry lab bursting into flame, a head being twisted off a torso -- are nothing to write home about. [11 May 1990, p.E7]
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This SCI-FI swill is the brain-child of director Mark L. Lester (Class of 1984), who says it’s really about “kids and the future of urban public education.” No, it’s not. It’s about kids and teachers kicking ass for two benumbing hours. What a waste.
25
Not so much a sequel as a reworking of old nonsense, CLASS OF 1999 is a thuddingly dull B movie that borrows its few thrills from other, more satisfying films.
25
Class of 1999 gets a D for dumb, dull and derivative, and so what if director Mark Lester, who made "Class of 1984" eight years ago, is borrowing from himself? The latter was just a punked-up version of the original rock-and-roll high school film, "Blackboard Jungle." For this new venture, Lester has simply tacked on elements of "Westworld," "RoboCop" and "Terminator" in a blatant attempt to enroll the action faction.
May 22, 2020
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Un navet particulièrement indigeste et pour tout dire carrément impropre à la consommation : il a de toute façon déjà dépassé la date limite et perdu le charme éventuel de la ringardise qui peut éventuellement se laisser regarder comme une friandise du fond d'un placard... au second, troisième ou quatrieme degré, voire beaucoup plus si affinités... mais si affinité il y a, il faudra consulter ! le nanar faisandé périmenaze étant très nocif pour la santé ! Celui-ci par exemple, impossible d'aller au bout, même par simple curiosité... des profs robots qui viennent remettre de l'ordre dans le bahut ? lequel est isolé du monde civilisé (on dirait une banlieue à nous !) façon New York 1997... fait bien avant 1997 mais se déroulant juste deux ans plus **** et fait bien après (oui, c'est compliqué...). On nage ici en tout cas en plein téléfilm de troisième zone dans lequel sont venus se paumer quelques seconds et troisièmes couteaux plus ou moins estimables ou (déjà) fatigués... les pauvres ! on aimerait trouver matière à rire ou se moquer encore davantage de ce navet foireux mais un tel cancre est décidément irrécupérable, car totalement analphabète ! alors si vous ne savez plus quoi en faire, mettez-le dans une poubelle et fermez le couvercle.
