Tre is abducted and brought to the campus warehouse to be killed while Powers goes to the docks to trade the stolen vehicles for drugs. Tre, with the help of backup, escapes and interrupts Powers’ drug deal. Tre then kills Powers during a high speed boat chase in the harbor. In the end Tre graduates high school and is reinstated to the force. "Underclassman" received universal negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, only 6% of the critics gave it positive write-ups with the consensus: "Despite the appealing presence of Nick Cannon, "Underclassman" is a shopworn knockoff of both "Beverly Hills Cop" and "21 Jump Street"." On Metacritic the film has received 20 poor and 5 medium reviews for an overall score of 19. "Underclassman" is currently the sixth worst reviewed film on Metacritic released in 2005. "Underclassman" was released on Labor Day weekend (September 2) in 2005, and performed poorly at the box office opening at number 11 with $3,393,610. Overall "Underclassman" earned just $5,655,459 against a budget of $25 million in seven weeks of release.