Light It Up

Pros: Some unintentional humor
Cons: Irritating story and characters

This is what happens when a small heating problem escalates to an infernal disaster. The tired story about poor kids in urban schools erupts again, but this time, teens want to learn. The “system,” including administrators and authorities, determines ...

Pros: Forest Whitaker
Cons: The Rest of the Film

Once again the wrath of the urban oppression film. I've seen this story way too many times, and it kills me just how often the story is set in a high school. Stand and Deliver, Music of the Heart, Lean on Me, anyone?

These stories can work...

Pros: It was a good premise, I'll give them that
Cons: They didn't do much with it

There’s so much unredeemable nonsense out there (e.g. our most recent number-one remake, House on Haunted Hill) that sometimes you want to like a movie based on good intentions alone. With Light it Up, though, no matter how noble the cause or how...

Pros: Terrific performances...bright new faces for the cinematic horizon
Cons: Pointless plot...overly predictable

There are problems in school districts throughout the nation...but movie screenwriters seem to portray the worst violence in New York City schools. This movie is no exception.

Light It Up is about the struggle of six high school students who...

Pros: Some intelligence in the plot, nice performances by Rosario Dawson and Forest Whitaker
Cons: Usher Raymond's bland lead performance

Light It Up, written and directed by Craig Bolotin, is different from most urban dramas in that in emphasizes ideas more than violence; in fact, the quantity of the latter is surprisingly low for its genre. But it's too bad that not many other...

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Cons: ????

I went to go see this movie because the preview looked interesting. This movie was good but not great. It could have been better, Usher Raymond played a good role and so did Vanessa Williams, but the main point was I say don't waste your money. You would...

Pros: Amazing acting from a cast of lesser knowns
Cons: not a lot - really well executed

I had the chance to watch this movie while I was Bismark, ND, in truth I only watched it because there was nothing else playing in the theater and with Usher in the lead role I thought it might be good for a laugh... I was very pleasently surprised with...

Pros: ummmmmmmmmmmm???????????
Cons: Horrible....just horrible.

This basically was a movie playing off the recent school-shooting rise in America. In one sentence this movie is HORRIBLE worse then Bats, Worse then the Matrix (at least that was fun to watch) worse then any Denise Richards movie. I mean 2 former...

Pros: well-intentioned, plausible hostage thriller
Cons: simplistic, cliche-ridden script

There's this neglected high school in Queens, New York, where a favorite teacher is suspended. In protest, six students barricade themselves inside the school, reluctantly taking a police office (Forest Whitaker) hostage after he's accidentally shot....

Pros: Good Film, Good Storyline, Good Acting
Cons: None

I thought this movie was very good!! I rented it from my local video store and it was very well made. I thought the script was good and the acting was great. The story was pretty sad but it was exciting too. The end will make you want to cry. It is rated...

Pros: great greta punp you up kind of movie
Cons: none

this was a great great great movie it made me want ot go and put MY school on lockdown when i was done watching it and that puts a major plus in my book when it comes to movies

now you may be saying whats putting a school on lockdown have to...

Pros: Never a dull moment
Cons: Too many stereotypes

If you are a Forrest Whittaker fan this movie will not disappoint you. He adds a realism to each part that he plays and his role in this movie is no exception. As an African American I try to support movies that portray us in a positive light. Yes this...

Pros: beautifully done
Cons: bad timing

The only way I know how to describe this movie is beautifully poetic and tragic. I can agree with some of the other reviews saying that the timing is not the best, but as you watch this movie and if you are open-minded you can see that this movie is not...

Pros: A grate atory and grate acting.
Cons: The music is bad and the plot dose go a little rusty.

I saw this movie because it looked very encharesting.

THe plot is about these kids who go to a crumy hight school in "the Hood"
And all they want is books for there school and for it not to be freezing cold.

This...

Pros: hits close to your heart, might make a difference somewhere
Cons: shows just how much people don't care

When I went to see this movie it was because it had a great soundtrack and some friends had recommended it but now I'm glad I saw it. It put into a movie what is going on in a lot of schools, adults that are not only blind to the problems but ignorant...