In “The Substitute,” Tom Berenger, still sporting the artificial scars that mottled his face in “Platoon,” appears as a CIA cowboy-type who, when his school teacher-girlfriend is roughed up by dope ...

The grim-faced antagonists are also macho holdovers from the era: Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon and Tom Berenger ... grizzled face-offs and chaotic gunplay would have ever had the chance to develop ...