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Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

gavin6942 A data courier (Keanu Reeves), literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.Author William Gibson said, "Basically what happened was it was taken away and re-cut by the American distributor in the last month of its pre-release life, and it went from being a very funny, very alternative piece of work to being something that had been very unsuccessfully chopped and cut into something more mainstream." That is a fairly understanding position from the author.Truthfully, this is not that bad of a movie. While maybe not as great as it could be, it works well as a 1990s futuristic thriller. The ideas are interesting, and it is even more interesting considering that Reeves went on to star in "The Matrix", which has a similar feel in many ways.Interesting note: This was Dolph Lundgren's last theatrically released film until 2010's "The Expendables". What an unfortunate 15 years that was for all the cinema fans.

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.

dee.reid "Johnny Mnemonic," released in 1995, had a lot of things going for it, with just as many things working against it. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991) had made a critical and commercial breakthrough in CGI special effects, and the visually dazzling "The Lawnmower Man" in 1992 helped to continue the trend. "The Lawnmower Man" was one of the earliest cyber-thrillers of the 1990s, picking up on the increasing relevance of computer technology and the nascent Internet craze (as well as the rising popularity of Japanese Anime'), thus paving the way for CGI special effects-laden cyber-thrillers like "Johnny Mnemonic" to make another breakthrough."Johnny Mnemonic" was a critical and commercial disappointment, but the film has nonetheless gained something of a cult status - again due largely to the underground cyberpunk sub-genre of science fiction, and, of course, the landmark breakthrough success of "The Matrix" (1999), which brought all this stuff together (amongst other influences from disparate genres) in one epic 136-minute feature and effectively legitimized cyberpunk and science fiction for the new millennium.In that regard, "Johnny Mnemonic" wasn't so much a failed effort as it was a premature one. Put simply, despite the underground popularity of cyberpunk and the increasing visibility of the computer hacker subculture, critics and audiences simply may not have been ready for this film - and aside from the usual quibbles with hammy dialogue and spotty direction. I was 10 in 1995, and vaguely recall the previews for this movie, and not paying any attention to it - because my mind was focused elsewhere. But I've seen the film off and on over the years, and after seeing "The Matrix" and reading up a little bit on cyberpunk, it becomes much easier to make the connection to "Johnny Mnemonic" (as well as the Anime' classic "Ghost in the Shell," which came out the same year as this film, and 1982's "Blade Runner").Science fiction author William Gibson - who wrote the seminal cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer" in 1984 - wrote the screenplay for "Johnny Mnemonic," which is adapted from one of his short stories. Robert Longo directed the film, and it stars Keanu Reeves, who at that time was hot off the success of "Speed" from one year before in 1994. Reeves may have been this film's other hindrance, which critics most likely picked up on, too.I've been saying for years that Reeves is an actor who knows his strengths and his weaknesses, and knows what he can and can't do as a performer - yet not everybody, critics and directors alike, seem aware of that. That doesn't necessarily make him a bad actor, but it shows that he's honest, and that he's more aware of his abilities than most people are willing to admit. But that's just my opinion; I'm sure others feel completely different about it.The film is set in January of 2021 - just five years from now - and is set at first in Beijing and later Newark, New Jersey. Reeves plays the title character, a "wet-wired" data courier (basically, a human hard drive) who is able to carry digitized data via a computer chip implant in his brain. At the beginning of the film, Japanese businessmen hire him to carry a large, classified data package to New Jersey, but just as the process is completed, assassins working for the Yakuza (Japanese mafia) come in and kill the executives. Johnny manages to barely escape with his life.Johnny then learns that the classified data that was downloaded into his head is too much for his brain to carry (320 gigabytes, which is apparently double the amount he can safely handle), and will kill him in two or three days time if it's not removed in time. Hounded by the Yakuza, who are led by a ruthless assassin named Shinji (Denis Akiyama, who carries a very lethal weapon to do his kills), as well as a crazed Street Preacher (Dolph Lundgren), Johnny has nowhere to turn to - with everyone, wanting his head served on a silver platter, literally, to Japanese pharmaceutical executive Takahashi (Takeshi) - except for a wannabe-bodyguard named Jane (Dina Meyer), an ex-doctor named Spider (Henry Rollins), and rebel leader J-Bone (Ice-T).There are action sequences and there are special effects - most of which would be considered laughable with today's advances in CGI technology, but were pretty state-of-the-art at the time of this film's release just 21 years ago. The film is by no means perfect, but it's really impressive to see Keanu Reeves in a cyber-thriller made just four years before he took the Red Pill in "The Matrix" and would change everything as we know it. But he's not Neo yet, and he can't defy gravity in "bullet time" - yet."Johnny Mnemonic" works best as a time capsule, and as perhaps a launching pad for future ideas, the same ideas that had been popular in cyberpunk science fiction for years by that point, but would not reach popular, mainstream acceptance for another four years.^ Whoa, at that last statement.P.S.: That Anime' film that the Japanese businessmen are watching at the beginning of the movie is "Demon City Shinjuku" (1988). LOL!7/10

craig-340-777546 This movie is so bad it is hysterical! I should preface this by saying on the anniversary of our wedding my wife and I went to see this picture when it was first released and IT WAS AWFUL! NO REALLY at first release this movie is HORRIBLE. When we left the theater we were almost in tears laughing at how we had picked a movie so bad.We recant the story from time to time until 20 years later my daughter wanted to see really how bad it was. We all laughed thru the entire movie .... it is HYSTERICAL! The whole movie is like watching a parody of other really bad movies! It is worse than the Saturday Afternoon Kungfu Theater style movie where the voices do not like up with the actors words! To me this is one of the funniest movies of its kind!This MOVIE IS SO BAD IT IS FUN TO WATCH! My Kids think it's great, The actors are all people they know and can laugh at. If you watch this with the idea it is a straight movie that is suppose to be serious, you will be disappointed....watch it and be ready to laugh and you might find a new movie to share, with other people who have a warped sense of humor!