
High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.... (Full plot summary below)
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High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.
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| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe prospect of a teacher driven to his students’ level of sociopathic vengeance might have packed a ghoulish wallop had the film viewed it as tragic. Reynolds, however, is just grinding out exploitation thrills. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversA ham-handed melodrama that trivializes an important topic: the role of the teacher in a violent classroom. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonFord makes such a dynamic president in Air Force One, you may find yourself favorably weighing his odds in Iowa and New Hampshire. |
| FulvueDrive-in.comChuck O'LearyA compelling, sobering drama about a well-intentioned high-school teacher driven over the edge by criminal student predators. Jackson gives a commanding, very empathetic performance. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkA combined psychological and vigilante drama. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserThink of this as "Die Hard" in a suit, with an election coming up. |
| Washington PostStephen Hunter187 (the title refers to copspeak for a homicide) circles round and round, never making a salient point that isn't countered by another, utterly opposite notion three scenes later. |
| EmpireIan FreerFulfils all its early promise, delivering a well oiled, no-nonsense, supremely entertaining crowd pleaser. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyArtistically pretentious, thematically fuzzy and almost sinister in its deterministic view of the human condition, this unusually ambitious and serious-minded major studio release is simply too negative in every possible way to find a receptive audience. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellA meat-and-potatoes American thriller that means business all around the world. |