Murderous exchange

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Movie
German title Murderous exchange
Original title The substitute
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Robert Mandel
script Roy Frumkes , Rocco Simonelli , Alan Ormsby
production Steven Bakalar and others
music Gary Chang
camera Bruce Surtees
cut Alex Mackie
occupation

The Substitute is an action film from the year 1996 .

action

The teacher Jane Hetzko is ambushed on the street and seriously injured. Her friend, the mercenary Jonathan Shale, takes on the matter and lets himself be smuggled in as a substitute teacher at Jane's school, where she suspects the perpetrators. On the very first day, Shale made the acquaintance of Juan Lacas, the leader of the KOD (Kings of Destruction) gang . Over time, Shale is able to encourage the young people to study and comes across a drug ring that uses the school as a warehouse. Meanwhile, the headmaster Claude Rolle, who is also involved in drug activities, discovers the identity of Shale. He orders the KOD to get rid of him. In addition, Lacas and his people take Jane Hetzko and two students hostage in their apartment. Jonathan Shale manages to free them and kill the gang members. Together with his men, Shale drives to school, where there is a showdown with the gangster and he can kill everyone.

Reviews

  • If the mercenary Berenger can't be in Vietnam, the school is a good substitute! This is a war movie, western, and light romance. - Vancouver Sun (April 18, 1996)
  • For years we have seen films about devoted teachers trying to win the respect of the hardest youth in third-rate high schools. This is why "Murderous Swap" is so refreshing: It belies these films. Most school films are about hope. Not this one. "Murderous Swap" is a forbidden pleasure, but not junk. - San Francisco Chronicle (April 19, 1996)
  • One remembers almost sympathetically the touching, well-meaning attempts with which Michelle Pfeiffer was able to win her students over to the class in "Dangerous Minds". Mandel stages the complete opposite: instead of illuminating the socio-psychological motives of everyday violence in the classrooms, he provides a moral black-and-white picture in which Lacas and the director act as demonic, unscrupulous villains in a bloodthirsty action spectacle. film service 3/1997

Sequels

The film was followed by three sequels, all three with Treat Williams in the lead role.

  • 1998: Substitute 2 ( The Substitute 2: School's Out )
  • 1999: Hard Lessons - Substitute 3 ( The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All )
  • 2001: Honor & Duty - The Substitute IV ( The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option )

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