Mihai Toma
In a dystopian world where half the people of the world suffered from an incurable disease, a highly trained agent must deliver one last package of information stored inside his brain before it gets into the wrong hands.It's a movie which displays a futuristic story of an agent who could store vast amount of data into his brain, data that must be delivered safely to the recipient before complete neuronal damage and of course, irreversible data loss. It has an interesting idea, one that maintains a good level of interest and suspense, but unfortunately doesn't stand up as much as it could due to its implementation. It might have been due to technological limitations, taking into consideration the production year, but you cannot miss the final product which simply doesn't provide a credible and truly dramatic atmosphere. The dialog also doesn't do much service to this movie, as its lack of complexity and average sound prove to be quite a letdown. In terms of plot, it is pretty coherent, but also simplistic and predictable, leaving almost no room for any interpretation. Thus, it is linear and doesn't do much to lift the quality of the movie. The actors did a decent job but also nothing out of the ordinary, while the characters portrayed are on par with the rest of the movie, being basically described and unsympathetic, their fate leaving little to care for from the viewer. Overall, it's a movie set in a futuristic world, one which could have provided a lot more, but failed to do so from every point of view. It leaves the impression that it was rushed, that it wasn't given enough time to fully accomplish what it had proposed to do, thus the result leaves much to desire.
adonis98-743-186503
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. Once i heard about this movie i couldn't wait to watch it i mean Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) and Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) in the same movie? this should be amazing right? this should be great right? Not really because the film was boring and so dumb that i couldn't even finish the whole damn thing and once Lundgren showed up i was so devastated that i just skipped the whole thing i tried so hard to finish it but i couldn't it was really terrible probably one of the worst from the 90's to be honest.
Maziun
The film is based on William Gibson's short story "Johnny Mnemonic" and also draws heavily on his later novel "Virtual Light". In this film, Keanu Reeves plays a man who smuggles data from cyberspace. 4 years later Keanu Reeves starred as a computer hacker who learns about "The Matrix".William Gibson is the writer of this movie and tries to shoehorn several of his concepts into the "Johnny Mnemonic" movie. The differences will probably annoy Gibsons fans. The biggest problem is that the movie feels like a bunch of ideas thrown together with no real connection. This is a movie with Yakuza killers , fanatic priest , a data decoding dolphin; some girl's soul stuck in a corporate computer system and laser whips. Some of them are cool and work , but most of them don't work at all. The story doesn't really tell anything deep or interesting about the future world.The movie is badly directed by Robert Longo who isn't a professional director , but a
painter (!). Keanu Reeves can't act and the other actors (including raper Ice-T) are on his level of bad acting. There is one surprisingly good performance here – Dolph Lundgren who plays fanatic priest. He's a colorful , funny and memorable character , even if he feels out of place here.There are some cool CGI special effects sowing "what is going inside in the Internet" , even if they feel pointless. The action elements are weak .I give it 2/10. Better watch "Strange days" instead.
aballyTKD
Admittedly after having read the short story of the same name along with a number of William Gibson's other books I approached this film with some preconceptions which I'd resolved to shelve and actively ignore if possible. I think I did this reasonably well.The reason I give this film three stars is because it is a bad film even by the rather dubious standards of the action genre in the 90s.The Jane/Molly character is just plain irritating and seems to be suffering from some sort of meth-created paranoid funk most of the time - certainly not somebody who would inspire confidence as a cool-as-ice razor-girl bodyguard. Keanu Reeves, who I generally like despite his limited acting range, is unusually wooden and seems to be going through the motions for a big fat pay cheque both on and off screen. The rest of the cast turn in performances fit for a straight-to-video/TV movie directed by teens. The only exception is Udo Kier as Ralfi who is typically convincing as a sinister Peter Lorre like fence\agent\pimp because of his appearance.I was inspired to watch the DVD on the basis of other reviews which suggested 'tweren't too bad. Maybe if you haven't read the story, it's tolerable as a piece of rainy day, diversionary drivel. Otherwise approach with extreme caution.
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