Light It Up (1999)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Well this movie is better than what it seems Yes it seems like a joke but if you watch it car fully you will see the good in it all the teens wanted was to be heard. Yes the characters seemed like they where made up by a bunch of 7th graders but here is the turning point they seem like real life people now i wouldn't go to the level that they went to to be heard but still they did a very good job. Ziggy was my favorite of them all he was the realest you could feel the pain in him the way he acted made you want to cry because he had so much energy that would grab on to you. What i think on this movie is that it was a very powerful movie it shows how life really is its is kind like the movie about the kids that had to write in that note book sorry i forgot the name but still this movie was as interesting.

I love this movie. People say it just another teen rebel movie, well I beg to differ. This movie will open your eye to the issues that go on in school to date. They say that it was completely on unreal, everything in that movie could happen. First off, the cast choice couldn't have been better, everybody gave a great, promising effort in this movie. Especially, Usher, he held it down. See would think Usher was soft with all his songs he make, but in this movie he meant that sh*t. Rosario Dawson, also good performance and Fredo Starr just made the movie a little do gangster but it was still good. The movie had a lot of feeling and suspense to it, and that made me keep on watching the movie. If had a chance I would have want to be cast in this movie, but this is the type of movie that will make your heart turn warm, but still know about the cold. There were very few problems in the movie and I like that. Overall I would buy the DVD, and ask for a date with Rosario Dawson.

I was a bit puzzled over this film. Yahoo gave it one and a half stars, a rating usually for really bad films (but not really bad films with budgets over $30 million). This was not a bad film, far from it. The first ten minutes really set the realism of certain public schools in New York, with middle management a slave to their superiors' concerns over their public image at the expense of the students. I looked at the Rotten Tomatoes list of reviews some of which acknowledged good aspects of this film. But some said it was formulaic. Well...yes? What will happen 100% of the time if a NYPD officer is shot and those responsible barricade themselves in? I suppose aliens were supposed to come down and rescue them? What mattered in this film was that it told the story from the students point of view and it told, with realism, some of the hard truths about bureaucracies who care about their image in sound bites and time of TV news but not really about the deficiencies of their system. It is enough to say that you felt with the students and it was told in their language. Apologies to the critics who felt a quick Caliban monologue should have been inserted. The ending was somewhat Breakfast Clubbish and, I agree, fantasy but all in all a truthful realistic film

I recently saw light it up with my friend and i just had to comment on it as it was a really inspirational movie that showed the audience the causes, problems and solutions to racial discrimination and how teenagers cope with problems to do with this topic.I think that Lester (Usher Raymond) played an inspirational leader type character that held the place together when things became tense. I admired Lynn's (Sara Gilbert) courage and attitude towards her own troubles such as being used by someone she thought she loved and dealing with a teenage pregnancy.Light it up is an emotional story of the lengths some people will go to, just to get the attention they deserve. I fully recommend this film to anyone in search of a tale of inspiration that will guarantee to have you crying by the end. A real 10/10!