Johnny Mnemonic
R
William Gibsom, the grandmaster of
cyber punk, blew it letting someone adapt this adaptation of his story about a man with computer
memory for brains. The problem lies in a weak script fleshes out of a much
better source story, (which may not lie on Gibson's shoulders but on the
studio), and a horridly low budget movie, with old Macs and PCs settling for
future computers. Those old things were outdated even in 1995! Keanu Reeves
would later be cast in the Matrix, but before that. he seems bored in this
role, or possibly drugged. Robert Long's direction can't save it. It could have
been a thriller, but it's not.
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