The assault on a Cuban drug lab have gone very noisy, Tom Berenger and his covert team are retired. There are opportunities in the mercenary gig, and he's offered a job by a drug dealer for 'security', but for Berenger, it's not about the money. Then girlfriend Diane Venora is attacked and kneecapped. So Berenger presents himself as the substitute teacher for her history class.
At first I thought this was going to be something like Dangerous Minds, but even as Berenger gains the trust of soe of his students, it becomes clear that something wrong is going on at the school run by principal Ernie Hudson. The man has too nice a watch.
This extended high school episode of Miami Vice has some of the problems of modern action movies, in which Our Hero gets knocked down and bounces back up after catching his breath. Even so, there are some real moments before the big battle at the urban high school, full of gunfire and explosions which no one seems to notice until it's all over.
At first I thought this was going to be something like Dangerous Minds, but even as Berenger gains the trust of soe of his students, it becomes clear that something wrong is going on at the school run by principal Ernie Hudson. The man has too nice a watch.
This extended high school episode of Miami Vice has some of the problems of modern action movies, in which Our Hero gets knocked down and bounces back up after catching his breath. Even so, there are some real moments before the big battle at the urban high school, full of gunfire and explosions which no one seems to notice until it's all over.