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Summary: Entertaining, But Could Have Been Alot Better
Review: Johhny Mnemonic's biggest enemy wasn't the Yakuza, PharmCom, NAS, or Dolph Lundgren. It was the dreaded bad sci-fi movie script that seems to plauge a large number of otherwise promising films. Someone else mentioned that this movie seems more like live-action anime and I'm tempted to agree with that thought. The sets, visual effects, and costuming are good and help to create a genuinely interesting Gibsonian cyberpunk atmosphere. But cyberpunk is more than flashy futuristic effects and run-down city cores...and that is where this film gets lost. It is all the more disappointing when one realizes that William Gibson himself wrote the screenplay. Keanu Reeves plays Johnny, a cold, unhappy, robot-like data courier who wants to quit the business and have his long-term memory, which he had to dump in order to store data in his wet-wired brain implant, restored. But in order to get the cash for such an operation, he must make one last Big Job. After being setup by his "agent", Johnny finds that he cannot get the 80GB of data out of his head and if he doesn't do so in time, bad things will happen to his brain. Along the way he fights yakuza hitmen and crazed robotic street preachers, and is helped by rock star back alley doctors, hot female body guards, a gutter punk rapper, and a Super-Intelligent Dolphin. Johnny isn't as unbelievably horrible as many other critics have claimed, but it certainly isn't going to win any awards. As it is, it is a fairly engaging sci-fi adventure with some serious handicaps. It's at least worth checking out.
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Summary: One problem with this movie...
Review: It's not Keanu Reeves' acting, but rather that the screenplay was written by the author of the short story. And it just doesn't seem to be up to the quality of most of his work. It is disappointing because it could have been much better.
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Summary: The MATRIX it AIN'T
Review: I actually liked this film when it came out but seeing it again this past week I was struck by how flat Reeves' performance was. He is so very good in "Speed" and in the "Matrix" films... but in this one, he is really weak and uninteresting... and knowing how good he can be, I can only blame the director. This was a good story, but poorly transcribed for the screen... and though the special effects were good for their day... those are pretty dated by todays standards. See either MATRIX film instead and leave it go at that.
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Summary: C'mon, people...
Review: It's no work of art -- but it's fun to watch.
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Summary: A See-It-Once Film
Review: I don't recommend buying this DVD. It's the type of movie that you might watch and enjoy once or twice, but never again. The script and plot are both kind of bland -- a typical world-is-going-to-end sci-fi plot. Keanu Reeves also has a less-than-stellar performance, but it's not his fault -- the script really gave him nothing to work with.
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Summary: Not Johnny Moronic
Review: It's a given thing that people are automatically gonna hate a movie if it has Keanu Reeves in it. Yet he's still one of the most bankable A-List stars. According to some, he's done a lot of turkeys and this is one of them. OK, I'll be the first admit it's not one of his best, and that's coming from a major Keanu Reeves fan. (Check out his worst: The Last Time I Committed Suicide) But it's got the gorgeous, still beefed-up-from-Speed, Keanu in it. How can you possibly go wrong? Very. Sometimes I think a short stories shouldn't be made into movies, as there's a serious amount of padding in the movie, with stuff that really doesn't relate to the rest of the movie. Some of J-Bone's crew for example, have a couple of minutes of screen time talking, when they really do nothing! But if anyone notices, both Keanu's (Johnny) and Dina Meyer's (Jane) characters are never given last names. So what do they become? John & Jane. At least in the USA, a John or Jane Doe is used where no first and/or last name is not known in a hospitalized patient or corpse brought to the coroners office. Am I the only one that picked up on this? To me, Johnny came out with some very funny lines in this! My favourite line of all has to be when he & Jane are in the landfill, just after a burning car is nearly dropped on them! He comes out with an extremely quotable line: "Listen. You listen to me. You see that city over there? THAT'S where I'm supposed to be. Not down here with the dogs, and the garbage, and the f**king last month's newspapers blowing *back* and *forth*. I've had it with them, I've had it with you, I've had it with ALL THIS -- *I want ROOM SERVICE*! I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker! I want my shirts laundered... like they do... at the Imperial Hotel... in Tokyo." That scene always makes me laugh, he's practically dancing on top of the rubbish. Dolph Lundgren plays a scarily OTT street preacher, which results in a very horrible death. This scene used to scare me, but funnily enough, I'm used to it now. Imagine if we still had scratch and sniff TV though?! Eurgh! The book goes into more detail about Johnny and his life, so if you want to watch the movie, hate it, read the book. Maybe you'll like it/understand it more. I have a copy if anyone wants a loan!
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Summary: The MATRIX it AIN'T
Review: I actually liked this film when it came out but seeing it again this past week I was struck by how flat Reeves' performance was. He is so very good in "Speed" and in the "Matrix" films... but in this one, he is really weak and uninteresting... and knowing how good he can be, I can only blame the director. This was a good story, but poorly transcribed for the screen... and though the special effects were good for their day... those are pretty dated by todays standards. See either MATRIX film instead and leave it go at that.
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Summary: WORST MOVIE EVER
Review: Words cannot describe the agony I experienced while watching this piece of crap. I would rather have 10 root canals then see ANY part of this junk again. Not only is the acting, plot, dialogue, and directing horrible - but in the end the whole world is run by a FREAKING DOLPHIN!!! A big plastic looking fake dolphin. I want my money back, I want a letter of apology from anyone even remotely involved with this film, and the executives who green lighted this crap should be fired. I wish I could give it a negative rating. This is THE worst movie I have EVER seen. Anyone who likes this movie must be really high or really dumb.
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Summary: Johnny Moronic
Review: Before Keanu Reeves first entered The Matrix in 1999, he got primed to play Neo, in his first techno thriller, Johnny Mnemonic. Given the end product, he must have left this dud off of his resume, (I would have) otherwise, he might not have been hired for that role at all. I must confess that I have never read author William Gibson's short story, on which the film is based, but I can't believe it's as bad as this movie...or is it? It's amazing to me, that Gibson also wrote the screenplay. Needless to say, I will not be reading that, any time soon. That said--this review must go on. Johnny Mnemonic (Reeves) is a futuristic courier who loads important data straight into his brain for storage and safe keeping. This information is so vital, in fact, that Johnny has given up brainspace that houses cherished childhood memories, in order to save space to do this last job. He's got just 48 hours to transport a large load of data from Beijing to Newark NJ--and some futuristic samurai warriors--for reasons that don't matter--are out to make sure he doesn't make it to his destination alive. Hollywood conceptual artist Robert Longo decided to step behind the camera and direct--he should have stayed put. While the movie does make a strong case for itself on a visual level, it is just a mess, in every other way. The cast, including Dina Meyer, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, and the greatest actor ever, Dolph Lundgren (I'M KIDDING), seem lost here...What a mess!! Thank goodness the DVD doesn't have any extras (not even the trailer) on it. If it did, that would have been like rubbing salt on the wound, and I couldn't take the pain. If you decide to watch Johnny Mnemonic anyway, despite my warrning, at least you'll be able to see the film in either the full-screen or widescreen formats. Not that those options will make things any better. Watch at your own risk
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Summary: UPS vs. chinese mafia
Review: he's like a robutt because he has a computer part in his brain and he's like the UPS man except they let him wear long pants. i think keanu probably has nice knees but you don't see them in this film. he's very pale. they shot a lot of asian men in this movie which doesn't bother me one way or the other. i'm not prejudust.
iced tea acts better when he's wearing his sunglasses. when he takes them off you forget that he can act. maybe he reads q cards?
then he gives the computer chip and what's left of his brain to a good guy. keanu does. not iced tea who gets murdered.
i like this movie better than matrix because my coke tasted like windex when i saw the matrix movie and i rented this movie and had cranberry apple juice which i like without ice.
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