The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All

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Stan C First off, it's a B-Budget Movie. People will complain because Tom Cruise wasn't in the umpteenth title role (thank gawd). It's a great theme about the decline of the American value system. Corruption, Crime, Abuse of Authority and those trapped in the cesspool. It's a great theme about the those who rose to the American dream, and fought to preserve... now seeking to do the same in our communites. How the individually strong can make a difference and bring justice and peace to our communities, while dispatching those who would sully & destroy it. Treat Williams is a great character action, and he captures the deadly bookworm role utterly. All these shallow, arrogant, self serving evil doers... leaning "never judge a book by it's cover," the HARD WAY. The theme of the necessity to fight force w force, and to be prepared to do so... the effective way to address and rectify the negative climate. Hats off to the producers of The Substitute Series, for a meaningful moral on our to preserve the American Dream... and it's takes a 'Bookworm' to do it! BRAVO!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/07/25 Full Review Jelisije J Lets copy the same formula as the first two, but instead of high school lets go to college...... Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/23/24 Full Review Bill C Very rarely do I watch a movie that I consider a total and complete waste of time, but this was it. The first two chapters of this series were passable and even enjoyable. This movie was so far off the formula that it might as well have been a totally different movie altogether. I spent more time completing the crossword on my phone than actually watching the movie. This probably should have been a compressed episode of "21 Jump Street" rather than an installment in this series. The script was practically non-existent, the actors seemed completely embarrassed to be in it, and the only positive to the entire thing was that it finally ended. This movie should only be on your device if you passed out and it auto-started while you were unconscious. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/27/24 Full Review Jason A These movie just keep going down hill. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Sigh.....sadly this film falls into your generic action flick filled with explosion's and tits, sex and a lot of ass. It gets rid of your sympethic characters and replaces them with cliched action villains you just want to see die. The fights scenes are still good but sadly that is never enough to save a film. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Treat Williams returns as the mercenary turned substitute teacher. This time he's helping a friend break up a drug ring run by a group of college football players and their coaches. Roy Frumkes and Rocco Simonelli, the writers on the original film are also back, so this third film is still tonally consistent with the prior films, maintaining the oddball genre mashup of tough urban school dramas with straight up action films. Rewatching this film make me realize I think my favorite scene in just about every crusading educator drama is the one where the new teacher first gets up in front of their students and has to take control of the class and earn the students' respect. Each of these substitute films has one of those scenes and they're always entertaining, though certainly nothing that would ever happen in reality. But realism is not why you'd watch one of the Substitute films. Like the first sequel, this film has a significantly smaller budget than the original film, but Williams is more than a capable actor and is very good in the lead. The only scene I really did not like was one where Williams gets ultra preachy in a lecture to his class on the the dangers of steroids. Claudia Christian also appears in the film as Williams' sexy partner who goes undercover to help him infiltrate the crooked football team. Certainly not a classic, but I considered myself entertained. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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