The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not an Option
4.8 /10 1 Votes
Director Robert Radler Initial DVD release October 23, 2001 Country United States | 4.6/10 Genre Action, Drama Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 24, 2001 (2001-04-24) Writer Roy Frumkes (characters), Dan Gurskis, Alan Ormsby (characters), Rocco Simonelli (characters) Prequel The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Cast Treat Williams (Karl Thomasson), Angie Everhart (Jenny), Patrick Kilpatrick (Brack), Grayson Fricke (Ted Teague), Simon Rhee (Lim), Scott Miles (Buckner)Similar movies Treat Williams appears in The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not an Option and The Substitute 2: Schools Out |
The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not An Option is a 2001 action film. It stars Treat Williams once again as Karl Thomasson, A former mercenary who must infiltrate a military school's faculty to stop the actions of a white supremacist cult. The film is fourth and final installment in The Substitute series and was released direct-to-video.
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Plot

Karl Thomasson (Williams), an ex-Special Forces soldier and retired mercenary is approached by his old army buddy Teague who gives him a mission: working undercover at a military school where Ted, Teague's nephew, is one of the cadets. Teague believes that the cadets and the student faculty are part of a white supremacist cult being run at the school. Karl accepts the mission and begins working as a history teacher at the school, seeking to expose and eradicate the cult.

While investigating, Karl teams up with Devlin, who served with Karl in the U.S. Army, who works at the school as a martial arts teacher. They learn that Colonel Brack is leader of the cult and Ted is one of the cult members.
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Reception
Robert Pardi of TV Guide rated it 2/4 stars and wrote that the film, though preposterous, is tolerable if one lowers their expectations. Aaron Beirle of DVD Talk rated it 0.5/5 stars and wrote, "Even for the low-budget action (or, as I call it 'cable action') genre, Substitute 4 remains a pretty dull actioner."
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