... 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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Full Review | Original Score: F | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 11, 2005

Snuff it out!

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2005

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

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

"The Breakfast Club" in the Ghetto

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 2, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: F | Jun 1, 2000

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 68/100 | Jan 1, 2000

Overblown story.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | 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.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

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

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Painfully obvious and cliched.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000