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Summary: A good movie with a good message
Review: Inner city schools usually aren't the nicest places in the world. But the condition here is terrible. The windows are broken, only half the students have books, and the teachers literary don't give a damn about the kids. The conditions are so terrible that when the only decent teacher gets fired and a student is attacked by a school cop it pushes six students over the edge. They take an ingured cop hostage and demand things that should be standared in schools, like books and windows. The problem is the people in the city aren't to keen on giving them what they want.In my opinion this movie was great and it really opened up peoples eyes to poor conditions in schools and other serious issues like child abuse drugs and teen pregnency. I loved it myself. My only complaint is with the cussing. I realize that people swear a lot but I was watchign this thing with my parents!
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Summary: Good movie
Review: It was actually EXCELLENT. It has my man Usher in it incl. the whole cast Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Williams, Forest Whitaker, Sara Gilbert, Fredro Starr (he's bad), the whole list goes on and on.
I was laughin' to death when a lot of craziness goin' on inside the movies from the guns poppin, the police chasin', a lotta people gettin' out of the school 'cuz of emergency, lot of mad talkin and fussin' goin on and all that other s**t. Y'know what I mean. Anyway the list goes on and on.
This is similar to those that don't like gangsta rap nor hip-hop/rap, mainstream music, soundtracks, gangsta movies, or whatever it is, it doesn't matter. I believe it's telling us to watch out 'cuz a lotta people are watching us.
For fans that love Menace II Society, Lean on Me, Stand and Deliver, Dangerous Minds, Jason's Lyric, Above the Rim, Boyz in the Hood, The Temptations, the TV show CHEATERS or JERRY SPRINGER (which I watched to this day), New Jack City, Malcolm X, etc. must check it out 'cuz it shoulda won a Academy Award.
Congrats for Usher for making a good film. He should deserve it.
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Summary: 187 fans, it's time to Light it Up
Review: Light it Up brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Ride or die", as Lester, a student at Lincoln High in New York, takes the school, along with five of his classmates; some friends, some merely acquaintances. Regardless of their relationships at the beginning of this whole ordeal, they all had one thing in common; they had been branded as gangbangers and deadbeats, before they even had the chance to be themselves. The sparks begin to fly when Mr. Knowles (Judd Nelson), a highly-respected, well-liked teacher is fired, after becoming a hero. Driven by the demons that plague his mind, and the memory of his father, Lester Dewitt (Usher Raymond) was only trying to protect his friend Ziggy (Robert Ri'chard), a young artist, from a security officer named Jackson (Forest Whitaker), when the officer loses his gun in the struggle. The gun goes off, and leaves Jackson with a wound to the leg. And so it begins. Lester grabs up the gun, and rounds up the five other students who witnessed the struggle, and who knew what really took place, taking Jackson hostage. Hours will pass... the city will watch... the students will be heard, because this is their time. Light it Up is sure to grab your gut and twist it with an unrelentness fist. You will become the characters portrayed, and you will live those hours that killed the demons in their minds, as you sit back in the comfort of your own, cozy living room, and Light it Up.
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Summary: 187 fans, it's time to Light it Up
Review: Light it Up brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Ride or die", as Lester, a student at Lincoln High in New York, takes the school, along with five of his classmates; some friends, some merely acquaintances. Regardless of their relationships at the beginning of this whole ordeal, they all had one thing in common; they had been branded as gangbangers and deadbeats, before they even had the chance to be themselves. The sparks begin to fly when Mr. Knowles (Judd Nelson), a highly-respected, well-liked teacher is fired, after becoming a hero. Driven by the demons that plague his mind, and the memory of his father, Lester Dewitt (Usher Raymond) was only trying to protect his friend Ziggy (Robert Ri'chard), a young artist, from a security officer named Jackson (Forest Whitaker), when the officer loses his gun in the struggle. The gun goes off, and leaves Jackson with a wound to the leg. And so it begins. Lester grabs up the gun, and rounds up the five other students who witnessed the struggle, and who knew what really took place, taking Jackson hostage. Hours will pass... the city will watch... the students will be heard, because this is their time. Light it Up is sure to grab your gut and twist it with an unrelentness fist. You will become the characters portrayed, and you will live those hours that killed the demons in their minds, as you sit back in the comfort of your own, cozy living room, and Light it Up.
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Summary: This movie definetly deserves 5 stars!
Review: Light it up is one of the best movies i have ever seen. The acting is excelent in all the characters especially Usher and the boy who played Ziggy (i couldn't find his name). Light it up is truthful and at times sad, i was crying at the end of the film. i would definetly recomend this movie the truth behind it is amazing and the story line of really good. the story is actually about six kids from Lincoln high school who barracade themselves into the school and hold a cop hostage to get what they want...books, the windows and leaks filled, proper heating. ziggy, lester, stephanie, lynn, rivers, and rodney are the characters in the story and all of them in some way you can relate to them. this movie is definetly one of my favorites.
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Summary: We Demand Education!
Review: Similar to the recent movie Negotiator, Light it Up follows a group of teens who take a police officer hostage with the demands to bring back a teacher that was unfairly fired and improve their education. This movie does have good points to it, and it makes you think because it is from the point of view of the teens, and it also sends a message about how the media makes most teens look like hoodlums, when all they really want is equal rights. The only thing this movie suffers from is cliches. All the characters in this movie are too un-original, and the writers purposely made sure that all the characters were too diverse, just to increase the drama between them. Overall, it is a well made dramatic movie, but the DVD suffers from lack of features. it is still reccomended.
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Summary: Explosive drama
Review: Six inner-city high school students, unable to convince anyone that the shooting of a guard was an accident, barricade themselves in the library, and will use any means necessary to make themselves heard.
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Summary: not good
Review: the acting was good and it started off kind of interesting, but it turned out to suck. this is the kind of movie where the cops have a bad habit of shooting innocent people and stupid kids who take a wounded cop hostage get a happy ending and are actually good kids and victums of racism or our capitalist system. also, the climax was way too melodramatic.
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Summary: the best movie ever
Review: this is the best movie all year. usher, robert, sara, rosario, clifton, fredro, and forest whitaker all did an outstanding job. this is one to see and one to own.
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Summary: don't get no better then this!
Review: this is the best movie ever. these innocent kids are just begging for the chance to be heard, and not to be classified as gangsters, and thugs just because they live in a dangerous area. i think that more then half the people in this world have been a victum of racisim once or twice in there life, but one person can make a difference and ignorance isn't hear to stay. usher raymond delievers and unbelievable performance as does darlene connor, from the roseanne show. this is movie touches on ever aspect of life in the ghetto, and is a treasure, if you can just watch it.
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