***SPOILERS*** There's nothing really that great about this new updated version of "The Substitute" series but the top notch action scenes in it which almost makes you forget just how ridiculous its plot really is.
Former soldier of fortune Karl Thomasson, Treat Williams, strolls into a local pizza joint looking for his good buddy's, who was killed during the fighting in Kosovo, daughter Nicole Stewart, Rebecca Stabb, in order to give he a memento that her deceased dad left for her. Unknown to Karl Nicole is a professor at the local collage and is having a lot of trouble with some of her students who just happen to be the collage's top football players. Before you can get your bearings to what's going on Karl puts the hulking brutes away when they try to put the squeeze on Nichole for not passing them in her class. As you would expect in movies like this the football jocks later take out their revenge on Nicole not Karl, who put them in the emergency ward by one of them, wearing a hood, later breaking her neck and leaving her for dead.
As things turn out Karl, besides being in expert in the martial arts, just happens to have a doctorate in history and easily gets himself a job at the collage replacing the badly injured Nicole. It's Karl's way of not only finding out who worked over Nicole but giving them who did a taste of their own medicine as well. With the help of his friends Andy Ed & Rahmel, Claudia Christian Frank Gerrish & James Black, Karl not only gets to the bottom of to who brutally worked over Nichole but the real reason behind it! This leads Karl to a steroid ring that's operating on campus pumping up jocks to improver their performances on the football gridiron. With Nicole putting the heat on her students to learn instead of play football this will jeopardized the collage's football teams chances of winning the Eastern Atlantic Championship! Something that the collage, that had a losing football team for the last straight 15 years, could ill afford!
It doesn't take Karl & Co. that long to track down and then finish off first the pumped up football jocks and then the drug ring that supplied them with steroids. The steroids ring's top man in charge the wimpy and sadistically vicious Tony La Russo, David Stevens, was more interested in getting into Andy's pants , who was undercover and stuffed up under her bra as a busty waitress, then pushing steroids on the collage campus. Karl confronting Tony and his boys puts them away, with his hand to hand fighting ability, in short order at the collage swimming pool. Tony who had sh*t for brains tries to take on Karl, who had already dispatched his hulking bodyguards, all by himself only to get his dinky little knife rammed up his throat by the not at all that too impressed, in his not so expert combat ability, Karl!
***SPOILER*** The big showdown is saved for last between Karl & Co and the late Tony's dad Mafia Don Vincent Lo Roso, Richard Portnow, and his bumbling gang of henchmen. Don Vincent who's not as idiotic his son Tony but far more, if that's possible, vicious is determined to have Karl pay for killing his son and putting his steroid ring out of business. Like son so like father Big Vince found out the hard-and hot-way that you don't mess with Karl Thomasson, and his friends, no matter how many men and firepower you have on your side! He'll always find a way, like in the movie, to turn things around in his favor!
Former soldier of fortune Karl Thomasson, Treat Williams, strolls into a local pizza joint looking for his good buddy's, who was killed during the fighting in Kosovo, daughter Nicole Stewart, Rebecca Stabb, in order to give he a memento that her deceased dad left for her. Unknown to Karl Nicole is a professor at the local collage and is having a lot of trouble with some of her students who just happen to be the collage's top football players. Before you can get your bearings to what's going on Karl puts the hulking brutes away when they try to put the squeeze on Nichole for not passing them in her class. As you would expect in movies like this the football jocks later take out their revenge on Nicole not Karl, who put them in the emergency ward by one of them, wearing a hood, later breaking her neck and leaving her for dead.
As things turn out Karl, besides being in expert in the martial arts, just happens to have a doctorate in history and easily gets himself a job at the collage replacing the badly injured Nicole. It's Karl's way of not only finding out who worked over Nicole but giving them who did a taste of their own medicine as well. With the help of his friends Andy Ed & Rahmel, Claudia Christian Frank Gerrish & James Black, Karl not only gets to the bottom of to who brutally worked over Nichole but the real reason behind it! This leads Karl to a steroid ring that's operating on campus pumping up jocks to improver their performances on the football gridiron. With Nicole putting the heat on her students to learn instead of play football this will jeopardized the collage's football teams chances of winning the Eastern Atlantic Championship! Something that the collage, that had a losing football team for the last straight 15 years, could ill afford!
It doesn't take Karl & Co. that long to track down and then finish off first the pumped up football jocks and then the drug ring that supplied them with steroids. The steroids ring's top man in charge the wimpy and sadistically vicious Tony La Russo, David Stevens, was more interested in getting into Andy's pants , who was undercover and stuffed up under her bra as a busty waitress, then pushing steroids on the collage campus. Karl confronting Tony and his boys puts them away, with his hand to hand fighting ability, in short order at the collage swimming pool. Tony who had sh*t for brains tries to take on Karl, who had already dispatched his hulking bodyguards, all by himself only to get his dinky little knife rammed up his throat by the not at all that too impressed, in his not so expert combat ability, Karl!
***SPOILER*** The big showdown is saved for last between Karl & Co and the late Tony's dad Mafia Don Vincent Lo Roso, Richard Portnow, and his bumbling gang of henchmen. Don Vincent who's not as idiotic his son Tony but far more, if that's possible, vicious is determined to have Karl pay for killing his son and putting his steroid ring out of business. Like son so like father Big Vince found out the hard-and hot-way that you don't mess with Karl Thomasson, and his friends, no matter how many men and firepower you have on your side! He'll always find a way, like in the movie, to turn things around in his favor!