Nonureva Really Surprised!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

ratcat0 If you are reading this prior to viewing the movie then perhaps you wont find it as bad a movie as most reviews suggest. Yes it is lackluster and yes the props and scenery certainly don't suggest a time somewhere in the future but these things can easily be overlooked. Cuba Gooding plays out his emotions quite well and there are moments when Val Kilmer portray an evil maniac quite well with some very odd movements and almost unperceivable body language but no he has not aged well. It was almost laughable to see a 1980 Volvo being driven down the road without so much as a (now obsolete) dash GPS. Still, there are some moments that give this movie a bit of a kick along such as the departed wife reminding her now neurologically enhanced husband that she does love him while sensing that her unborn baby would like in on the action. Don't totally disregard this movie. Watch it when there is nothing but crud on TV and be prepared for a journey albeit a slightly bland one at times that can and will remind you of the ever growing nature of Globalism.

jmart99101 This is a very decent Sci-fi movie with an average budget. If you like philip K dick type movies and have time to kill on the rainy day, you will enjoy this movie. It is in the same vein of Total Recall, Impostor, Paycheck, etc. But not as good as any of them. It deals with paranoia, evil corporation, big brother, etc. The instance where you notice the lower budget is really with the direction. There seem to be very few camera angles for every scenes. Otherwise, its a pretty descent offering for a Sci-fi movie. When you have seen everything else including some monster/disaster Sci-fi channel original movie. This one comes out as a pretty good surprise considering the rating of it at the IMDb. A good way to pass time for Sci-fi fans.

davideo-2 STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning If asked to think of a promising Hollywood talent who has squandered his potential away over the years, without to any knowledge succombing to any drink and drugs lifestyle, it's hard to think of a better example than Cuba Gooding Jr. You usually get 'one hit wonders' with singers, but in his case he had his golden 'show me the money' moment with Jerry Maguire, then spent the following years melting away with Godawful rubbish like Boat Trip and Daddy Day Camp, as if on some mission to wreck his career taking meaningless roles in inferior material. It's carried on, and now we have this rather appalling straight to DVD disaster in which he gives one of his worst performances ever as 'Luke', a former soldier who loses his memory in a car crash where his wife is killed. In a world where the corporations own everything, he finds himself suffering hallucinations in the form of nauseating, tacky commercials for everything from watches to whisky. Some resistance fighters may hold the answers, tracing them as the responsibility of Hope Industries, and as he gets his memory back, it becomes more of a desire for revenge...There isn't a redeeming quality in sight here. The acting from all involved is laughable, from Cuba to a bloated looking, unkempt, bespectacled Val Kilmer as the villain, years of reportedly being an arse to work with on Hollywood film sets relegating him to far lesser stuff like this. And that's without mentioning the effects, especially the 'exploding heads' moments, which look cheaper and faker than if they'd been filmed thirty years ago. Seriously one to avoid. *

Elswet Okay, yes. You've seen the material a thousand times from Freejack to Johnny Mneumonic to Total Recall to Matrix. This echoes both John Carpenter's, "They Live," and the more-recent "Gamer," with some of the feel of the original "Blade," attempted, but never achieved.The action is awesome, well choreographed, and professionally executed throughout a Terminator-stylized storyline including the end of the world as we know it via robotics and a mad scientist portrayed disappointingly by Val Kilmer.Mad scientists should be either raving mad, or insidiously fiendish. Kilmer's Virgil was full of high ideas with no moral center, but he utterly lacked the diabolism required to carry through such a plan. It was like he knew from the beginning that he was doomed to fail, and played the character thusly, failing to invest too much of himself in a doomed role. I wanted him to be Madmartigan vs. the kid from Real Genius, and instead, I got Craig Ferguson's Dr. Wagner of Lenny the Wonder Dog. To say the least, I was disappointed.Decent on a rainy afternoon if there's nothing left in the house to clean. Otherwise, you could find something better to do with your time.It rates a 5.5/10 from...the Fiend :.