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Johnny Mnemonic Customer Reviews (7 - 9 of 27 Reviews)

Why do people Hate this movie?
Combining elements from several of his novels and short stories William Gibson's screenplay moves along at a nice clip, if there are maybe one too many showdowns and gun battles. This is a nifty looking cyber-punk future, falling somewhere below Blade Runner and Hardware for sheer production design coolness but standing somewhat above the tacky but amusing FREEJACK.

a great chance at something new wasted and by the creator no less
william gibson's short story comes to the screen as just another over blowen action movie and the reason is gibson. he adopts his own short story and fall into hollywood land with a thud. he had a chance to really bring his "cybrepunk" story to the screen and do something great but the action movie he came up with isn't it. i liked the movie as an action movie but it was easy to see where it was going and i wanted more from gibson. maybe i just wanted to much because it does give you some action that is pretty good but it could have been great. nice try but no cigar. keanu reeves is very good as johnny but he has nothing to do. check out his "speed" to see him in a better light

High Camp
Give this film a few years, it's actually pretty stylish, funny, imaginative, and Mad Max-ish in its own way. Right now it's stuck at that bad point in the trend cycle--kind of where, say, Sixties Italian Sci-fi was languishing during the Seventies. The "hip" computer people are too busy pointing out errors in this flick to notice that it's fun and has legs galore. It's strangely prophetic too. Frankly, I've never "gotten" people who try to sniff out hard science illogic in science fiction and fantasy movies (Gad, read some of the reviews of Spielberg's recent "War of the Worlds"). I always feel they're not quite "getting it" themselves. To them I say go to an online dictionary and look up "irony" and "metaphor."

The script is an absolute stretch but that adds to the charm of the proceedings which have a kind of episodic Alice in Wonderland quality to them not dissimilar to those in "Escape from New York" or its sillier yet amusingly self-conscious sequel, "Escape from LA." How else are you going to get all those great encounters with wacky characters into the flick, eh?

In a decade or so, when computers become so user-friendly we won't need romping hordes of computer and cyber geeks around who nit-pick every detail of stuff like this (you know, the trolls who always seem to tell us that whatever software or hardware we've purchased we did wrong), "Johnny Mnemonic" will end up in decent "B" science fiction Valhalla and new fans online will be raving about this cool old movie and trashing the bejeebers out of "Sin City." Get it while it's cheap!

I recommend this to either younger people--mid teens and so--who will find it goofy, absurd, and fun, and to people, say, 35 and up, who like that 80's to early 90's retro stuff.

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