Here's a film consisting entirely of things you've seen before. Especially indebted to the hardly classic students-on-rampage sagas Class Of 1984 and The Principal, it even takes its title from a forgotten Amanda Donohoe DTV movie of a few years back. Furthermore, it's choppily directed by Robert Manel (School Ties) and toplined by the still-in-decline Tom Berenger.
Miami teacher Diane Venora is put out of action by a mugger working for the gang-leader who is terrorising her school. Her boyfriend (Berenger) steps in to take over, bringing into the classroom the skills he has developed in a career as a mercenary soldier. Recruiting his covert ops buddies, Berenger goes to school and sets out to break up the drug-dealing syndicate the local gangs are running with the crooked principal (Hudson). Also, while rapping to a bunch of students about his days in 'Nam, he manages to pull off a To Sir With Love act and turn around some of their lives.
Its few sincere scenes aside, this is mainly a sub-standard action movie. Early on, there is a suggestion (when a mercenary shows up for a job interview with an audition tape) that there might be a sly vein of satire going on. However, Berenger, sporting his usual faceful of stick-on scars, isn't capable of sending himself up. In the end, this amounts to little more than one of those films in which people make such uninspired declarations as "You don't teach history, you are history..."