Class of 1999 II: The Substitute

Plot synopsis:
John Bolen is the new substitute teacher at a local high school in Bend, Oregon. When he sees some punks ditching class, he confronts them. However, when the lead punk pulls a knife, John uses martial arts to dispatch the students and when a fellow teacher sees the downed punks, John informs the teacher that the punks were on their way to class. Meanwhile, Jenna McKensie is a teacher who is getting heat from the school administration because she had witnessed gang leader Sanders pull a gun on a student. Sanders uses all sorts of tactics to harass Jenna into not testifying against him in court. However, Jenna's boyfriend, Emmett Grazer, tends to be there to chase Sanders away much to the chagrin of Jenna, who feels she doesn't need the protection 24-7. The punks wait in their car until school is over to confront John. John gets the upper hand by chaining the doors so they cannot escape and throws a grenade in the car, causing it to explode.
When John attends his class, he finds trouble in the form of student Tiller, a local troublemaker. When a fellow student drops a book, John hits the floor and begins to hear gunfire in his head. He finds the book to be Tiller's and sends him to the principal's office. However, Tiller goes to the roof of the school to take a hit of the drug "edge" when John shows up and throws Tiller off the roof. Tiller attempts to hang onto the flagpole, but his hands slip and is hung from the flagpole dead. The next day, Jenna goes out for a jog when she finds Sanders and some of his goons begin to once again harass her. When Sanders leaves his boys to attack Jenna, John shows up in time to save her. Jenna and John soon bond and while sheriff Tom Yost is taking Jenna's report, he notices John sporting a tattoo for Special Forces. When Tom asks John about a military background, John walks away.
Emmett is in charge of a small military museum and as a military expert, he is planning a friendly paintball competition between the students. John begins to show interest in some of Emmett's military gear but is still hesitant of revealing who he really is. Meanwhile, a mysterious man named G.D. Ash is reporting on the incidents that occurred in Kennedy High School two years ago involving android instructors malfunctioning and killing the students. John and Jenna continue their friendship with John teaching Jenna a bit about military tactics and quotes. To make sure Jenna is safe, John hunts down a member of Sanders' gang and at first, use martial arts before chaining him to a wall and setting him on fire. However, the day of the paintball competition, John wages war on everyone involved and even targets John and Jenna. He kills some troublemaking students and when Jenna is once again confronted by Sanders, this causes John to arrive again but this time seal the deal and kill Sanders and the rest of his gang.
When Jenna confronts John, John finally reveals he is a military android. When G.D. Ash arrives, he uncovers something interesting about John. John is not an android, but rather the son of Dr. Bob Forrest, the creator of the android teachers who have killed the students at Kennedy High two years ago. John had served in the Special Forces and has suffered from post traumatic stress disorder to the point where he actually believes that he is an android. Instead, John is actually sporting a new brand of body armor, making him impervious to bullets and even blades. When John and Jenna end up in Emmett's military bunker, John intends to kill both himself and Jenna by planting a bomb in the bunker. However, Emmett makes the save and as he and Jenna escape, but John arrives and shoots Emmett. Jenna shoots John in the head causing him to fall back into the bunker. Jenna covers Emmett and declares her love for him as the bunker explodes.
Two days later, Jenna is preparing for school and as she is on the phone with Emmett, opens her shirt to reveal she now sports the body armor John also had, thanks to Emmett having a copy of the armor in his museum. Jenna copies a quote John once said about preparing for battle as she is set to begin her day.

Tags: cult, murder

Review:
"Class of 1999 II: The Substitute" is a bad movie with terrible plot points.
The story of a substitute teacher, who seems to be a killer android that comes to a high school where a gangster and his dangerous gang are intimidating a teacher that witnessed him killing another student is a complete mess.
sasha mitchell is perfect in the role of john bolen..
i think the story is really cool, sasha mitchell is truly inspirational to me in this film..
i know a lot of people don't really like the film but, i think it has a unique feel good factor that appeals to me..
Sasha Mitchell is very good as John Bolen.
Sasha Mitchell who originally starred in Dallas, comes across nicely as the school teacher with a secret, inside he is in conflict between all the traits that he holds dear.
Now maybe I will watch it.It's development of the 'paint ball' warriors was informative as to how this activity actually goes on.But getting to the point - Jenna is extremely hot, especially in the flesh shown.
I liked the plot - a crazy kid thinking he is a droid and developig droid characteristics - original.
I thought this was way better than those other "Class of..." movies.
Sasha Mitchell (star of Kickboxer 2,3 and 4) really acted like a cyborg , it's kinda funny sometimes.
I don't know why some people don't like it , I think it's a good movie.
OK, the past 3 days I have watched "Saturn 3", "Shredder" and now "Class of 1999 II: The Substitute" and by far Class of 1999 II was the worse, compare all 3 movies, that is really saying something.
The 'gangs' in this movie wear the most ridiclous clothes, who is going to be in a gang and look like that?
This movie is pretty bad in and of itself, but the thing that makes it over-the-top ridiculous is that all the students look about 30 years old, while the cyborg/substitute looks about 16.
The protagonist, Sasha Mitchell, plays good his role of cruel cyborg teacher, killing and destroying all things he hates around him.
I think Sasha Mitchell was perfectly cast, while others say that woman was hot, I say he was :D but that's not the only reason I love this film.
I love how dangerous he is, I like how serious this movie takes it self for...sick of movies being low budget and just jokes for a Saturday night for people to complain and moan about or worse being stupid and silly with degraded crap like Family Guy and South Park, that's right, I'm pissing on the high budget stuff that is trash unlike this film!!!!!
I love all the cool explosions..I like the story/plot and yes there was one even though no one says there is one.
The twist at the end had me very fooled, I was like what I love Sasha so naturally I went to IMDb and wanted to see his other movies since I loved his Kickboxer movies and him as Cody in Step by Step..a show which needs to be on DVD.
Bad acting, but not a terrible movie.....
OK the acting was pretty bad and there were too many corny lines that were tried to be played off seriously, but the fighting was good when there was some (the movie was a little boring), Sasha Mitchell really does know how to fight in real life so at least the hand to hand fighting was realistic and somewhat interesting.
Perhaps the best reason to watch this movie is the incredibly hot lead lady played by Caitlin Dulany.
Although her character is naive, corny, and a little overplayed, She's still very hot and she was willing to do a nude sex scene in this film so it wasn't a total waste of time.
Maybe I didn't think the movie was so terrible because I like Sasha Mitchell and hot babes that do sex scenes.
A cyborg poses as a substitute teacher in schools and kills kids who are misbehaving....yawn.
Sasha Mitchell stars as John Bolen an android teacher (From the original) who terminates a bunch of unruly kids and some innocent ones just for the hell of it in this baffling sequel.
The director could put anyone in there and I wouldn't know the difference.I watched it all the way through and in the last scene I was hoping for a killer robot teacher to rip the girl in half or at least come through my wall and rip me in half.
John Bolen is a substitute teacher who travels from school to school, secretly killing troublesome students.
He heads to Monroeville High School, where he helps a female teacher who is being pressured into not testifying by a student who she saw murder someone in cold blood.
For the acting, Sasha Mitchell plays the lead role with a wooden determination, which is appropriate for the role.
Sasha Mitchell stars as John Bolen the robot teacher who is the only connection to it's moronic predecessor, in this movie he unleashes stern justice to gangs that sorely need it and in the process saves a teacher from the bad guy gang, while killing the usual innocent by standers.
Class Of 1999 II:The Substitute actually starts out fairly well with Mitchell dispatching a gang not that unfamiliar from the gang in Class Of 1984 but after we hit the subplot involving a teacher who witnessed a shooting and the new gang's antics to force her not to testify.
The movie actually manages to become watchable whenever Mitchell springs into action but because the movie lingers to much on the clichéd boredom of the gang and the teacher the movie stops dead in it's tracks.
So at the end of the day, you have a sequel (Which should be part 3) that is better than it's first predecessor but far inferior to the exploitation classic that spawned it and no amount of kickboxing from Mitchell will change this fact.*1/2 out of 4-(Poor).
OK, first of all, yes its a cheap movie n stuff....but I've learned to look beyond that kinda things, cuz thats not the most important thing about a movie, if u disagree go watch Titanic...i also love Cyborg with Van Damme, and this falls into the same category , i think....but Sasha Mitchell somehow is soooo cool in this role...his kickboxer movies are worse, cuz they don't have the fun element, this movie has...if u approach this movie in a serious way, you will turn it off quick.
But if you're open for a fun action 80s style ride..its your movie.Its hard to explain what this movie does to me....i just find the John Bolen Character so cool....and in the end i almost feel sorry for him...badmouth this film as much as you like, i love it!!!!This movie makes me feel good in a weird way.....80s style b-movie action , i love it!.
When a young, pretty, and somewhat naive teacher, Jenna McKensie (Dulany) wants to testify in a trial because she witnessed a murder perpetrated by evil student in his mid 30's Sanders (West), school authorities do nothing, local cops advise against it, and her boyfriend Emmett (Cassavetes) is relatively ineffectual.
It's a good thing John Bolen is here to bring corporal punishment back to the school system!
It needed to have a giant lunch like John Bolen does in the movie.
The movie is at is best when Bolen is going around killing punks, but can that sustain a whole 90 minute film?
Sasha Mitchell is great as Bolen.
Mitchell has some good lines and some very entertaining stone-faces that help the movie along.
While some people may say this movie is nothing more than a "Substitute" for a better film, we say it brings back video store memories and isn't bad.
The Premise: A government agent is tracking what he believes to be a rogue android on a killing spree, disguised as a substitute teacher.
That teacher is John Bolen, who arrives at a new high school to implement deadly discipline.The conclusion: People may not like this movie, but it has some good moments.
A somebody is out to track him thinking it is the a surviving robot teacher from the 1st movie.
The climax is at a paint ball war games where John Bolen is doing a killing spree but the bully is out to kill the female teacher.
He eventually gets blown up in a bunker and all is good but with a twist at the very end.This movie would be rated R, a nudity sex scene and blood and violence..
I just love this film, because it triggered something...it has a certain charm about it, and anyone who likes 80s action B movies(although this isn't even from the 80s) should understand what i mean by this...Sasha Mitchell is great in this role....he is cocky and cool, funny at times...just the right approach for this type of role, i think.
no surprise there, but sad nevertheless...The war poem is something that really stuck in my head..How anybody feels about a movie is rooted in personal feelings and observations...to me its a fun ride, and id so love to be John Bolen for a day or two....enjoy!!!
This film (the sequel) was so bad that I am suprised I managed to watch it once.
There's this guy, that starts killing people, the film tries to convince you that he is a robot, then at the end there's a twist - he is not a robot.
They showed some androids which looked pretty good, but on actual viewing of the film, there is none of this.
In fact the reason I watched it was to wait and see the actual special effects of the robots - which were shown on the back cover.
The acting is incredibly bad - even worse than in a television movie.
The substitute bloke is played by someone out of KICKBOXER 2, which tells you something about the level this film achieved.
What little budget was available was obviously wasted on some huge explosions, which are nice to look at but, as is the case with the rest of the film, lack substance.
To make matters worse, some interesting-looking clips are shown - from the first film, presumably, just to rub in what we're missing out on here.The big finale involves happenings at a paintball game, giving you some idea of the tiny scale events are played out on here.
The high school and its population doesn't look that hopeless, even though the students are wearing orange jump suits resembling a prisoner's outfit, and there even still are some teachers – like the lovely Miss.
I would say the latter sub plot has something to do with the huge success of "Dangerous Minds" (the actress Caitlin Delany even looks a lot like Michelle Pfeiffer) but "Class of 1999 II" actually came out one year prior, so I'm guessing it's just a coincidence.
In the first film, the high school was located in the middle of a no-police-patrolling zone and two competing gangs were killing off each other.
John Bolen is the last remaining cyborg in its type, designed by the late Dr. Bob Forrest who was killed by his own creations at the end of the first film, and he infiltrates in a troublesome high-school by posing as a substitute teacher.
Sasha Mitchell is decent as the supposedly (but not really) emotionless robo-teacher and grabs every possibility there is to demonstrate his impressive kick-boxing skills.
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute starts like any other ordinary morning at at an everyday American high-school except that they have a new substitute teacher named John Bolen (Sasha Mitchell) who is in fact a reprogrammed military robot.
A reprogrammed military robot who likes to kill off the unruly students & when local school thug Sanders (Gregory West) & his scumbag gang starts to hassle his fellow teacher Jenna McKensie (Caitlin Dulany) he takes a very dim view of it...Directed by Spiro Razatos I thought Class of 1999: The Substitute was an OK time waster, I thought this sequel to the original Class of 1999 (1990) was going to be awful & in that respect it didn't disappoint & I suppose it was but not quite a bad as I thought it was going to be.
The script by Mark Sevi moves along at a fair pace although after the opening 20 or so minutes it leaves the classroom & descends into a drama as a teacher is harassed because she is going to testify against a student & this is what the bulk of the film consists of rather than the classroom action & violence of the original before it ends with a paint-ball contest gone wrong, in fact I can only remember one scene set in a classroom during the whole film.
The character's & narrative could have been better too, for instance early on in the film Bolen kills the schools principal & this is never mentioned again which seemed odd considering he was the principal & therefore a pretty important person & the kid that he recognises & kills for reasons we never discover.
There is also a distinct lack of exploitative elements which don't help, overall it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be but it's still pretty bad all the same.Director Spiro does OK, there's some low budget but reasonable action scenes but I'd liked to have had some gore as there isn't any as it stands at the moment.
The acting isn't up to much I'm afraid.Class of 1999: The Substitute isn't a particularly great film, in fact if I was pushed I'd say it was a pretty crap one but it did keep me watching until the end & at least it wasn't as bad as I had been expecting..
The only two redeeming qualities to this film were Sasha Mitchell (John Bolen)and Rick Hill (G.D. Ash.)Sasha Mitchell plays a renegade cyborg bent on keeping order in schools, much like his predecessors in the first "Class of 1999." Rick Hill plays a government agent desperately searching for him, but not for what he leads others to believe the reasoning to be.
Instead of being set even further in the future (in the first one, even the cars were futuristic)it seemed to be set in some remote, backwoods, hick, town.Sasha Mitchell's performance was riveting as the cold, emotionless, calculating and cunning battle droid, posing as teacher John Bolen.
Like I said, this movie could have been good, it really could have.
I've gotta start by saying that I'm quite a fan of both 1984, and it's massively entertaining, sort of pseudo sequel 1999.originally watching this film when first arriving on VHS (as I said being a big fan of 1999, the mere sniff of a sequel was all it would take to sucker me in a second time) I was hugely disappointed, where were the androids?
And ya know what I'm glad I did.Whilst this is by no ways a great film, in fact it's not even a good 1999 sequel, it does have some interesting ideas (most of which are thrown out the window)It all looks very 90's in that crossworlds, warlock 2, kinda way and the point of the original is completely lost, but the idea of the substitute, fighting against positive emotions (e.g his unexpected and unwanted feelings towards Jenna) the fact that he's not even like a killer android, more just a literature spouting, psycho ex-seal suffering from a real bad case of green eyes, adds some sort of Frankenstein meets fatal attraction element.The acting is relatively mediocre, Sasha Mitchel is as emotionless and stiff as the character he's playing, as is pretty much everybody else and the direction is as simple and uninspiring as the soundtrack.
The twist ending just adds to confuse matters I mean If he's not an android it still fails to explain how he manages to fire continuously for about five minutes without having to reload once, or how he can still throw some unruly, orange jump suited street punk student through a brick wall, I know these seals are tough, but really?As for the very final shots of Jenna getting ready to teach a new class, loaded up with Johns knife, gun, kevlar vest and a new mission statement, massively betray her character, turning the rule abiding, war game loving belief's of the android into an ideal, instead of a malfunction.Yet despite all of this I still quite enjoyed it, fun if you fancy a cheesy 90's, lowish budgeted sort of scfi action thriller, it deserves better than 3.8, not much better mind but fun all the same :).
I thought that Sasha Mitchell (Kickboxer sequels) handled his role pretty well.
The story has a couple of flashbacks from the original movie, but that is about it concerning any big special effects: (WARNING SPOILER !!) It all turns out that teacher Bowen is not a WarDroid but in fact the psychotic son of the professor in the first movie.
But still, I watched this movie last night and I hadn't seen it for 10 years or so.
And I can understand who some people do not like this movie, it is after all a hoax..
I watched Class of 1984 on Zone Horror and loved it, I even went out and bought it on DVD.
So when I saw Class of 1999 II on the same channel I thought OK, I didn't expect much with the reviews it got but I thought I'd try it out.The plot is about a new substitute teacher John coming to a new school and killing off unruly kids but he's apparently a Cyborg.
Meanwhile a man is tracking him and planning to stop him before he kills them all like the Cyborgs almost did in Class of 1999.