Johnny Mnemonic
1995 Directed by Robert Longo
Synopsis
The hottest data on earth. In the coolest head in town.
The year is 2021, and half of the Earth's population is suffering from the disease known as Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS). Johnny, a mnemonic data courier, is hired to carry 320 gigabytes of crucial information to safety from the Pharmacom corporation. Pursued by Yakuza agents and a crazed cyborg, Johnny must deliver the data or die in twenty-four hours.
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Better than Halo
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Aw, 1995. A vision of the future that includes massive CRT screens, laser-whips, A.I.s, underground societies and cybernetically enhanced dolphins. Henry Rollins, Ice-T and Dolph Lundgren. Music by Stabbing Westward and KMFDM.
It’s one of those movies which actually isn’t any good at all, but I still enjoy watching it from time to time anyway, because It resembles a certain era to me. The time we all watched Star Trek: The Next Generation/ Deep Space Nine and The X-Files, and we all listened to Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein and The Prodigy. Something we look back to now, like we used to look back at the eighties back then ("those horrible hairstyles ... that silly cheap music ...." and now it's… -
Keanu Reeves is a man who should be viewed with wonder by all of Hollywood and the world.
I like this guy, I am not out to get this guy. I like watching his films, but this is the bit that I cant pin down. Why? I am not gay, so its not the 'ooo I love him factor', he will never win an Oscar, unless he takes up a make up course or something, and he just looks gormless on screen.
Yet, I like watching his films. Everytime he does a series of stinkers, you think he is done, and bang, he comes back with a film that no one else wanted to do, but something just works and…
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The potential for this movie is outrageous, but the end product is fairly flawed. It's a cyberpunk sci-fi based on a courier carrying 320 GB of data in his head that could save the human race against a futuristic disease. The data is uploaded into his head from a mini-disc. While this amount of data sounds pretty small now, it was rather large in the mid-90's when most computers didn't hold 1 GB. There's also an evil corporation run by Beat Takeshi (who can barely speak English) and a Jesus-esque villain named Street Preacher played by Dolph Lundgren who does a fantastic job as an over-the-top bad guy. Most of the acting is pretty bad. Keanu Reeves has a funny…
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Keanu Reeves is one of the greatest a actors of all time. He makes acting look so real you think to yourself he not really acting at all... Was he this bad in the matrix? Ice t was bad, dolph's character would of been cool if done right, and the plot was just bad.
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Its an OK film with a lot of great cyberpunk things going for it. Tho there is a lot of idiotic "hacking" and horrible dialogue and actors. A remake today with a decent budget could actually be pretty awesome.
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This film is only memorable to me because Henry Rollins is in it.
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That's right! I watched this movie again. This time I watched the Japanese extended cut. It has a different soundtrack. This one is a little rock n' roll. Also, there are more scenes, but they are almost all of Beat Takeshi. Those scenes aren't the strongest in the movie and already felt a little shoe-horned in since he doesn't interact with any of the characters (face-to-face) until the finale. I didn't mention this before, but the ending is pretty weak with all 3 "bad guys" waiting in line to fight Johnny. There's also a Lawnmower man scene where Johnny needs to hack himself. It's never interesting to see characters hack (just watch Iron Man 2). Anyway, the extended cut was kind of a letdown with more of the same. Maybe a little better than the original, but nothing worth a half a star.
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Keanu Reeves is a man who should be viewed with wonder by all of Hollywood and the world.
I like this guy, I am not out to get this guy. I like watching his films, but this is the bit that I cant pin down. Why? I am not gay, so its not the 'ooo I love him factor', he will never win an Oscar, unless he takes up a make up course or something, and he just looks gormless on screen.
Yet, I like watching his films. Everytime he does a series of stinkers, you think he is done, and bang, he comes back with a film that no one else wanted to do, but something just works and…
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The potential for this movie is outrageous, but the end product is fairly flawed. It's a cyberpunk sci-fi based on a courier carrying 320 GB of data in his head that could save the human race against a futuristic disease. The data is uploaded into his head from a mini-disc. While this amount of data sounds pretty small now, it was rather large in the mid-90's when most computers didn't hold 1 GB. There's also an evil corporation run by Beat Takeshi (who can barely speak English) and a Jesus-esque villain named Street Preacher played by Dolph Lundgren who does a fantastic job as an over-the-top bad guy. Most of the acting is pretty bad. Keanu Reeves has a funny…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Klasszik sci-fi a 90'-es évekből. De akkor nagyon jó volt. William Gibson novellából, ő meg egy zseni.
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Liked the idea, hated the outcome. The plot is overally too lame. Keanu Reeves has always been quite wooden actor, but in this film he just sucks - not that anyone else stand out either. Nineties effects and soundtrack are not quite pleasing, but can't blaim the era. Disappointment for a movie. Too bad, I wanted to like it.
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Despite some spectacularly bad acting by all involved and a lot of very dated visions of "the future," it's hard not to kind of like this. I don't even know why.