Blackboard Jungle meets Class 84 There were a batch of films over decades speaking of the difficulties that teachers had with their students, all more or less BLACKBOARD JUNGLE rip-offs, but always more violent and graphic in the treatment. This one is among the best of those direct to DVDs material, with of course Kevin Reynolds' 187, made in 1997 starring Samuel Jackson; for sure better than this one. Different but better.... So this very movie which I comment now is a very good time waster, time burner. Ernie Hudson is excellent, exquisite, he reminds me his performance in OZ series, as the prison head warden, so ambivalent; except that he is not in a jail but in a school. Maybe it is stupid to compare this to Richard Brooks' BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, but admit that the basic material is the same, only treatment is totally different, here far far far less "intellectual" but on the contrary more graphic, destined for large audiences, and not "elite" ones.