Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2/4
Feature length audition for The Matrix.
Indyfreak - wrote on 12/03/2020
Laughably dated technothriller that envisions a future about an amoral courier (Reeves) whose microchip-equipped mind is saddled with vital information which draws assassins and gangsters after him.
The production design borrows a lot from Blade Runner and similar cyberpunk movies. But it’s got a few unique ideas if utterly maddening. A villain uses a sinister laser-whip and Reeves’ augmented brain serving as an internet PO Box is an interesting concept. Wait until you see the cyborg dolphin hacker!
This really is not one of Keanu Reeves’ better performances. It doesn’t help that it is also one of the few roles that he’s playing kind of a selfish wuss. But Dolph Lundgren is weirdly fun as a psycho bad guy and the ever underrated Dina Meyer picks up some of the slack.
Rating of
2.5/4
Johnny Mnemonic.
TrifibianTerror - wrote on 02/10/2010
Johnny Mnemonic.
This film details the exploits of a 21st century 'data courrier' named Johnny Smith, played by the emotionless Keanu Reeves, who transports data in his head for clients. But when a secret and potentially world changing piece of data is downloaded to him, it overloads his brain and gives him 24 hours to live, that is, if the Yakuza hunting him don't kill him first.
I bought this movie recently prior to this review, and I had always kept this idealized vision of it in my head of a pseudo-cyber-steampunk retro-futuristic Mega-City One type setting and some mad government plot. I didn't really get that, however. Though I will say it wasn't a bad film, it wasn't great. Sure, Keanu's usually inhuman and emotionless performance was perfect for this, but over all, I didn't …
