Light It Up

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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: This movie is great. The actors are great, the plot is great. There are some pretty cool action sequences, but the movie is also very dramatic and sad. The ending in guaranteed to bring you to tears. This movie can simply be described as fantastic. It's a must see and a must own!

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Summary: the best movie ever made
Review: this movie is the best movie ever made. Usher is fantastic in his role as Lester and also fredro starr who plays rodney and also Robert Ri'chard who play ziggy is also brillant. It tackles the element of racisim and brings out in depth charcters in this teen life drama.in one word it can be summed up as spectacular. A definent must see!

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Summary: The movie Was amazing
Review: This movie Was amazing inever saw a movie that was that good sence dangerous minds if u loved that movie you will be obsesed with this one!

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Summary: Interesting but not good
Review: This movie was o.k. But it got really boring. I was like, when will it end? The end was really deep and sad. It wouldn't see it twice. The acting wasn't good. I got tired of looking at the school. I wished they would go outside! Not a video to own. A one time thing.

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Summary: The movie that made me cry.
Review: This movie, LIGHT IT UP, was amazing, i loved it soo much, this movie made me cry, and breakdown and think about life, trust me on this one, buy it!

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Summary: Powerful
Review: This was 1 of those powerful movies that you'll see that will keep you thinking about it after you watch it. The beginning starts out with the 6 seperate characters goin through their course of the day. The only 3 characters I can remember are Lester,Ziggy and Ronnie. Ziggy has a small run in with a very cocky police officer (who is assigned to the school to "make his presence known" which I must say he does too good of a job at) and when Lester goes to assist Ziggy the cop tells Lester to "assume the position" Basicly the whole deal with the hostage situation happens when the real smart "prissy" female student is suspended for bad mouthing to the principal about the poor conditions of the school. Another confrontation with Lester,Ziggy and the cop results in the officers gun discharged and the officer wounded. This is now when the school is evacuated and police and swat officers arrive. The officers attempt to enter the school which as their headed up to the frount doors DMX provides an awesome musical background. Its now up to the hostage negotiater(Vanessa Wiliams) to try and end the situation peacefully.During the whole hostage situation the group of students become kind of famous with their point of view on the shooting and their demands sent out to reporters VIA the internet. At this point Lester reveals a dark somewhat powerful secret. His father was gunned down by white cops and I believe 2 weeks before the shooting/hostage situation Lesters family lost their wrongful death lawsuit. This part with the wrongful death suit reminds me of the Diallo shooting last year in NYC where 4 white cops shot an african american 20 times for allegidly being armed. Both of these cases(video and reallife) prove that maybe there is a little bit of racism in police departments. What happens then???? Well watch the movie to see what happens. 1 last thing, im not the type to get chocked up watching movies but after watching the end of Light it Up I found myself with some teary eyes. This is a powerful movie that definitly is a reccomendation in my book

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Summary: A view from the other side
Review: Too many times in recent years we have tuned into the news only to hear of another school shooting. In this movie, we see it from the point of view of the students involved. This brilliant film from Craig Bolotin, the director of Miami Vice, shows us how good people can suddenly find themselves involved in bad situations. Because of a self-serving principal and a cop with too much attitude, six high school students take the cop hostage and ask for better school furniture, textbooks, etc., as their demands. As the movie plays on, we see that each character is very deep and complex -- each with her or his demons, each with redeeming qualities. The beginning of the film, until the time that the cop is taken hostage, seems contrived and there are several inconsistencies with the film, but overall, it is definitely worth watching.

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Summary: "Light" makes you think!
Review: When I saw "Light It Up", the first thing that popped in my mind was "these kids have a point". A few weeks ago I read about two towns from California. One was a "rich" neighborhood, and the other was known as a "poor" neighborhood. The rich neighborhood was currently having a pool put into their school. On the other hand, the poor neighborhood had a school full of 3,000 students, but they only had 1 toilet. After a teacher got all of the children in a class to take pictures of all of the bad qualities of the school. These pictures were printed in the town paper, two weeks later construction was started to fix the school up, just as much as the town to the side of them! In "Light It Up", the teens take a different approach to fix the conditions of the school, they still got their point across. This movie was very insperational, and the web site of it explained how to quote "light it up" for your school and/or neighborhood. The teens that act in this movie portray a real image of youths today. The directing and drama in this movie is extroidenery.

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Summary: An underrated film with a great screenplay.
Review: Whether you like hip hop or not, whether you like to watch teen drama's instead of comedy's, and even if you are not a fan of those "non-blockbuster" movies, you aught to see this movie. The ending should have revealed more about how the school improved after the holdup ended though. Believe it or not, this movie is pretty much a Jungian kind of film, with a great trickster (the troublemaking white guy), threshold guardian (the tough guy), the underdog (Ziggy), the animus (the smart girl), the hero (Lester), the shadow (The police officer), the mentor (the negotiator), and the shapeshifter (The Sarah Gilbert character). I believe if this film had a bigger marketing budget, then it could have been a smash hit, I mean, it sure deserved to be! By the way, remember it's philosophical message (don't worry though, it's going to be sugar coated)! Take care!

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Summary: An underrated film with a great screenplay.
Review: Whether you like hip hop or not, whether you like to watch teen drama's instead of comedy's, and even if you are not a fan of those "non-blockbuster" movies, you aught to see this movie. The ending should have revealed more about how the school improved after the holdup ended though. Believe it or not, this movie is pretty much a Jungian kind of film, with a great trickster (the troublemaking white guy), threshold guardian (the tough guy), the underdog (Ziggy), the animus (the smart girl), the hero (Lester), the shadow (The police officer), the mentor (the negotiator), and the shapeshifter (The Sarah Gilbert character). I believe if this film had a bigger marketing budget, then it could have been a smash hit, I mean, it sure deserved to be! By the way, remember it's philosophical message (don't worry though, it's going to be sugar coated)! Take care!