I had just finished seeing "Taken" for my third time, the movie where Liam Neeson goes to Paris to hunt down and exterminate the guys who kidnapped his daughter to sell her into the sex slavery market. The "Substitute" movies are in the same genre, I just love to see the good guys getting the best of the bad guys.
This one I bought as a budget DVD, with "The Substitute" on one side of the disk and this one on the flip side. The video and sound are just "OK", but fine for this kind of movie.
Treat Williams is Karl Thomasson, mercenary, and the opening scene has him and his buddy imprisoned in a foreign country. Karl uses the upper dental bridge of his dead partner to pick the lock, then surprise the two men, neutralize them, and free the young woman they were trying to violate. This establishes Karl's skills and caring attitude.
Back in the states, on Long Island (actually Salt Lake City area) we see Rebecca Staab as Literature Prof. Nicole Stewart, who is being given a hard time by several football players who want a good grade and only want to cut up in class. Plus it appears they are highly 'juiced.' So, after she gets mugged and beat badly one night, Karl who happens to have a PhD in Literature takes her job temporarily, and enlists the help of his similar-skilled co-workers to investigate and eventually eradicate the bad guys.
There is not a lot of finesse to this movie, and judged by normal movie standards would not get a very high rating. However, it does exactly what it sets out to do, to be a "B" movie about bad guys getting put in their places by Karl and his friends. No police involvement, Karl acts as judge and executioner. But we the audience can clearly see the bad guys are guilty, so it is what it is!
This one I bought as a budget DVD, with "The Substitute" on one side of the disk and this one on the flip side. The video and sound are just "OK", but fine for this kind of movie.
Treat Williams is Karl Thomasson, mercenary, and the opening scene has him and his buddy imprisoned in a foreign country. Karl uses the upper dental bridge of his dead partner to pick the lock, then surprise the two men, neutralize them, and free the young woman they were trying to violate. This establishes Karl's skills and caring attitude.
Back in the states, on Long Island (actually Salt Lake City area) we see Rebecca Staab as Literature Prof. Nicole Stewart, who is being given a hard time by several football players who want a good grade and only want to cut up in class. Plus it appears they are highly 'juiced.' So, after she gets mugged and beat badly one night, Karl who happens to have a PhD in Literature takes her job temporarily, and enlists the help of his similar-skilled co-workers to investigate and eventually eradicate the bad guys.
There is not a lot of finesse to this movie, and judged by normal movie standards would not get a very high rating. However, it does exactly what it sets out to do, to be a "B" movie about bad guys getting put in their places by Karl and his friends. No police involvement, Karl acts as judge and executioner. But we the audience can clearly see the bad guys are guilty, so it is what it is!