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Demolition University
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Movie propaganda
They're about to take a test that's impossible to study for.
Today's lesson: how to beat back wild-eyed terrorists fanatics, diffuse a deadly international crisis and save your neck when a class field trip becomes a study in nail-biting, high-explosive action. In this tense thriller, a terrorist group infiltrates an energy plant and threatens to unleash a deadly virus into the city's water supply. A group of visiting students are the only hope with they escape their captors. With time running out, the students earn high marks in survival as they set about sending the terrorists to detention - permanently.
Starring Corey Haim as Lenny, Ami Dolenz as Jenny, Laraine Newman as Professor Harris, Todd Allen as Max, Erin Beaux as Bruce, Robert Forster as Gentry, Khrystyne Haje as Diane Woods, Joe Skorpen as Abdul, Michele Maika as Elia, Kahlil G Sabbagh as Faddem, Bernard White as Momad, Joe Lala as Carlos Ramos, Michael Kayem as Mohammed, Rene Rivera as Kalmed and Eric Saiet as power worker #1. Written by Steve Jankowski, directed by Kevin Tenney.
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Theatrical report
Corey Haim! Ahhh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
For those of you who don't remember the 80s, there was a group of teen-dreams in films, TV shows and 'zines, all of whom seemed to be named Corey. The most famous film, The lost boys, actually contained two Coreys! Woo hoo! Well, now they have all grown up and here is the result. Corey Haim still has that 80s puppy dog look after 20 years; he's also seen a bit too much of the California sun (those laugh lines are nothing to laugh about). And now he's reduced to playing a wise-cracking testosterone-fuelled Army jerk in a B-movie about some teenagers who save the world from biological weapon wielding terrorists.
Just so you can appreciate the irony of it all, Corey's character is a baddie. Imagine it! Hee, hee, hee!
Anyhoo, just by reading the title you will already have guessed that there's not a lot of artistic revelation in Demolition University. The characters struggle to reach two-dimensionality, most falling into a mono-dimensional black hole where even extras would fear to tread. The story is as shallow as the characterisation: competitive teen jocks bonding over counter-terrorist activity, schoolies save world from international baddies, turncoat gets just desserts, police, FBI and military in firefights with terrorists, shooting, explosions, bleeding, blah, blah, blah.
On the plus side there's... u minutes... well. Never mind.
Use Demolition University to make up the numbers in your five-weeklies-for-the-price-of-two special deal at the video shop.
Security censorship classification
MA 15+
Surveillance time
87 minutes (1:27 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
DVD rental: 2 May 2000
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