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Having dropped out of the last 9 schools he has attended for bad behaviour,
Volcano High is pretty much Kyung -soo's (Jang Hyuk) last chance to redeem
himself ... but that's easier said than done, as att he school there is many a
fighter who wants to test his superior fighting skills (which he has sworn not
to use anymore), and furthermore the school is pretty much run by local bully
Jang Ryang (Kim Su-ro), who is only kept in place on one side by fellow
student Song Hak-rim (Kwon Sang-woo), the best martial artist of the school, on
the other hand by the principal, who claims to have some secret scroll that
gives him power over the students ... But thn there's the evil dean (Pete
Sepenuk), who desperately wants to get his hands on the scroll, even if that
means to hire Jang Ryang to help him with an assassination plot ... which
eventually leaves the principal totally motionless, and the dean and Jang
Ryang have fixed it so Song Hak-rim takes the fall and is soon sent to prison
... and with him out of the picture the school sinks into chaos, as pretty
much everybody is fighting for superiority, which culminates in Jang Ryang
trying to install a reign of terror. ... only Kyung-soo desperately tries to
stay out of it, as his fighting skills only led him into trouble in the past,
even if he is targeted by Jang Ryang ever so often, and lovely Yu Chae (Shin
Min-a), whom he is of course secretly in love with, tries to win him over to
the good cause. But as if all that wasn't bad enough, eventually, the dean
hires a quintet of violent teachers led by Ma (Huh Joon-ho), who install order
in the most brutal ways, and make Jang Ryang their prime target, as the dean
now lays the blame for the attempted assassination of the principal solely on
him. Ultimately, Jang Ryang is to be publicly punished to the harshest in the
school's auditorium, and only Yu Chae musters up enough courage to stand in
the teachers' way ... until Kyung-soo can't control his repressed anger and frustration any longerand in an explosive
and extended finaly, he, Yu Chae and Jang Ryang battle the new teachers and the dean in every way imaginable
- or not imaginable for that matter - until it culminates in a duel of
Kyung-soo against Ma ... and in the end, Kyung-soo wins, if ever so barely. Martial
arts movie and high school comedy seem to be 2 genres that have remarkably
little in common and thus wouldn't see all that compatible .... yet in Volcano
High, these genres are mixed with remarkable ease and to best effect,
telling an essentially stupid story but being fully aware of it and maiking
fun of it, and invariably neglecting the rules of both genres as well as the
rules of logic or the laws of gravity should the story demand it, which results
in a fast-moving and immensely entertaining piece of action cinema.
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