![]() ![]() And finally, Petrie is the son of well-known director Daniel Petrie, Sr. As the headmaster, Gossett plays the kind of father boys really want to have: tough, fair and tender. He also plays skillfully with heavily layered relationships for just as the terrorist leader, Divoff, is eager to please his father, the boys in the school, however conflicted their feelings are, are conscious that their fathers are watching. He makes the most of visual discordances like helicopters in the school quad and artillery mounted atop the school's ivy covered towers. Simple enough stuff here, you can see it coming for miles down the road, but Petrie keeps it tight. The schoolboys, misfits all, pit their skills at thwarting authority figures to work against the terrorists. ![]() I had a pretty good time at this fast moving little film about the insanely devoted son of a Colombian drug dealer who, with his small terrorist army, takes over a prep school to force the release of his father. Honestly, no one expects me to like this kind of film, but they wrong me. Machine guns and adolescent boys - oh hold me back. ![]()
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