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The Substitute
Ex marine goes under cover and pretends to be a substitute teacher in other to take out Lacas, he later discovers that Lacas was not the one behind the crime.
16 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA
12 February 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 April 1959, New Rochelle, New York, USA
28 August 1956, Cayey, Puerto Rico
20 September 1965, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
17 December 1945, Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
January 01, 2000
A poorly written and barely acted, but crowd-pleasing revenge flick.
January 01, 2000
The entire setup is too garish to be credible.
January 01, 2000
The title changes, the actors change, and the superficial details of the story change, but it is always about exactly the same thing: heavily armed men shooting at one another.
January 01, 2000
The silliness of The Substitute escalates as the film progresses, so that by the end there have been plenty of laughs during 'serious' scenes.
July 22, 2003
Really fun movie. Twist on the "Dangerous Minds" scenario.
October 09, 2005
What begins as watchable quickly degenerates into a no-brain action flick that produces a ton of derisive laughter.
January 01, 2000
An angry, white, mercenary movie out to spill blood and beat its manly chest.
March 21, 2003
Mediocre action flick with an ex-marine teacher taking his gang-banging students to task. Don't bother.
January 01, 2000
There's a certain amount of camp value to this over-the-top thriller, which might as well be called Rambo Goes to High School.
January 01, 2000
Aside from a lot of only moderately-satisfying violence, The Substitute comes across as rather lame.
February 13, 2001
There's a sense of shrewd observation throughout The Substitute that makes it come alive and seem quite a few cuts above such usual genre fare.
August 21, 2014
Worth the time for its occasional nuggets of interesting action, and the performance by Berenger.