David Ehrenstein New Times Oct 3, 2017

... it's this sense of the "real" that not only keeps Light It Up lively but that marks it -- for all its visual flair -- as happily out of step with a zeitgeist enamored of naught but money and notoriety as the wildly overhyped millennium turns.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 F

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Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Oct 9, 2005 1/5

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Aug 11, 2005 2/5

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Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Apr 17, 2005 2/5

Snuff it out!

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 18, 2005 C-

...isn't so much a bad movie as an unfinished movie

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Blake French NutzWorld Nov 20, 2003 2/5

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Kate Manning Palo Alto Weekly May 20, 2003 3/4

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Caffeinated Clint Moviehole Sep 19, 2002 3/5

"The Breakfast Club" in the Ghetto

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Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) Aug 2, 2002 2/5

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Aileo Weinmann Filmcritic.com Jan 1, 2000 2.5/5

Light It Up smolders and spits out some smoke, but no fire.

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Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle Jan 1, 2000 3/4

A deluge of movies is set to be released in the next three weeks. One that should not be lost in the flood is Light It Up.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jan 1, 2000 2.5/4

The problem is the movie is too predictable--so predictable that it keeps it from truly generating suspense.

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Dan Jardine Apollo Guide Jan 1, 2000 68/100

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George Meyer Orlando Weekly Jan 1, 2000

Overblown story.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Jan 1, 2000 1/5

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Steven Boone Citysearch Jan 1, 2000

The exposition that rushes us into the police standoff is so painfully forced and phony that the only way to keep watching the movie is to take it as either dark comedy or one of those cheap Die Hard knockoffs.

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Nick Carter Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jan 1, 2000

It begins as a high school comedy romp and then abruptly turns into a TV cop show-caliber thriller.

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Chris Vognar Dallas Morning News Jan 1, 2000

Painfully obvious and cliched.

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Eric Monder Film Journal International Jan 1, 2000

Never gets beyond stereotypes.

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