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A teacher encourages a group of black high-school students to open up during an after-school detention.

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Cheryl DeWolfe Apollo Guide Rated: 43/100 Jul 24, 2001 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Lundgren, J. Furie, vilões idiotas que não acertam um tiro, munição infinita e presos numa escola. Obrigatório pra quem não tem o que fazer. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member It offers a few interesting concepts but its concentration is lacking. Its cast also tries to show some charm but its script and minimal action provide little to work with. For my full review of Detention (2003), check it out on this IMDB link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0321997/reviews-34 Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member (Wrong description for plot above) Detention (2003) plays like a bad homage to Die Hard. Dolph Lundgren plays an ex-soldier turned teacher when he fails to save a little girl hostage. He works at a high security school where there are security guards patrolling the halls, and high tech lockdowns to keep the kids in. The movie is dated and feels like its from the 90's, because it was written way back then. Everything in this movie is poor except for Dolph Lundgren. The badguys are campy and cheesy, especially the atrocious forced one liners from the head villain (eg. I smell teacher!) (Death Class 101!) The teenagers all have bad attitudes and get annoying very quickly, except for the one kid who mans up and stop being a coward with some character development. There's not much in the way of martial arts, but a lot of crappy gunplay is involved. The movie feels like it drags itself on so it can fit the 90 minute running time, and in the end its not worth it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Sidney J. Furie and Dolph Lundgren finally team up! The result is less than thrilling, but Die Hard in a school is always a fun time. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Not a bad idea of a group of kids and their teacher trapped in a school where some drug dealers are doing their work, but the longer it goes on it just gets dumber from there. Nearly everyone cant hit a target to save their lives....literally millions of bullets shot and almost no one gets hit. The girl that looks five lonths pregnant suddenly going into labor? The bad guys are far too over the top as well. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Lessons learnt: 1) FOG stands for Fuckable Older Guy 2) The half of the students who have detention are black males 3) Half of the black males that have detention are responsible for impregnating all the white women who have detention 4) The fashion of Brà 1/4no is totally ripped off from the head criminal in this movie 5) The hair of crazytown is totally ripped off from the Hungarian criminal woman in this movie 6) Hungarians arn't the best criminals that you can hire 7) Hungarian criminals dress like cyberpunks 8) Hungarian criminals while interupt your conversation to shout that they don't care for Bosnia. 9) If you're smart enough you can beat a motorcycle with your wheelchair esspecially during a chase inside a highschool. The movie could be better if Lundgren acted more like he just didn't care anymore and the ultimate climax would be if he delivered the baby. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A teacher encourages a group of black high-school students to open up during an after-school detention.
Director
Darryl LeMont Wharton
Producer
Donna Lynne Comegys, Darryl LeMont Wharton
Screenwriter
Darryl LeMont Wharton
Production Co
Filmsnoir Motion Pictures
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 25m