Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Frank Markland ********Possible Spoilers******** Joe Lara stars as Dakota a by the book cop who captures Slash Gallagher (Evan Lurie) however in hologram form it becomes apparent that he is even more powerful(One of the film's biggest plot holes.) and it seems that it is only Dakota who can stop him. Michael Nouri stars as President Jameson who is sorely underused. I want to make one thing clear, a hologram is nothing but a virtual image, the level of suspension of belief we are asked to swallow is a fairly tall order especially that we are never told how exactly you make a person a hologram and how exactly can they contain the same intelligence and memories of the person. Or for that matter how they are able to fight and all that. Straight to video science fiction is always a tall order to follow but such numerous plot'holes really distract the viewer. For instance the hero goes and snatches the antagonists' body and destroys it, despite the obvious fact that it is probably far easier to kill the villain in human form than as hologram form. Also the other annoying plot angle is just exactly how Lurie's character has become so powerful, if you are going to make a hologram the strongest why use it on the most dangerous person in the world? This is just crazy. Sadly Hologram Man is unbearable to watch because the action sequences are shot without flair and basically consist of bad guys winning and then losing as the hero arrives. There are so many questions raised by the premise (and the premise is very questionable to begin with) that we wonder exactly how the world got this way and why for instance is automatically the corporations running the show? What happened to the old way? The film doesn't care and therefore it proceeds to fling itself to one action sequence to another. The action sequences (Excepting the one that involves John Amos)are all boring and derivative of The Terminator, Demolition Man and Robocop. One especially noticeable steal is from They Live involving a machine spotter to which Lurie hits with a shotgun. I could go on on how ludicrous this all is but I have to state the obvious, movies like this live or die by the ambitions taken with the material. Hologram Man is bankrupt in all essential areas and in the end it all becomes a tiresome effort which recalls far superior movies. The only real life in the movie comes from Michael Nouri, John Amos and William Sanderson but they are so annoyingly underused that they can't save this turkey.* out of 4-(Bad)

Wizard-8 PM Entertainment was really starting to roll around this point, and they were probably thinking this was going to be their breakthrough point. They apparently had a sizable budget, great locations, and a screenplay filled with action and a huge body count.Upon seeing the finished product, it seems something went very VERY wrong. Most of the blame can be put on the incompetent editing (the problem that you usually find on the particular PM movies that went wrong.) Often new scenes start up in what seems to be the MIDDLE of the scene - including the opening sequence! Action sequences sometimes are missing key shots, so that people or vehicles are suddenly in a new position without us seeing how they got there. If a particular action scene isn't confusingly cut like that, it's instead cut in a way that makes all the shooting and explosions boring.Elsewhere in the movie, a few shots are sliced up and spread throughout the particular scene (in one instance, it results in someone dying, then seen miraculously alive!) And some scenes are utterly useless, like the scene where the hero goes through a virtual reality training course. Sure, the computer graphics (for the time) aren't bad, but this scene serves no purpose except for eye candy. The rest of the movie is mostly just as forgettable. Having both a hero and a villain look and act like Lorenzo Lamas was probably not a good idea. I admit I did get a few giggles with William Sanderson cast as a computer geek. There are a few other laughs, but otherwise it's an unbelievably dull effort that seems to go on forever. The only possible explanation I can think of is that maybe the work-in-progress cut was mistakenly shipped to the video people instead of the final cut.

elevatormusicman After viewing this movie, all I can say is "odd. Very odd." The sci-fi part of it seemed a bit overly-done; but I can't really comment on that aspect since I never advertised myself as a sci-fi expert. There were wayyyyyy too many explosions and shootings. I sometimes got the feeling the writers added all these when they needed time to fill since most of these scenes seemed pointless. The only redeeming quality of this movie was it's quirky plot in which the viewer couldn't help but be confused whether to route for the "good guy" or the "bad guy," since the "bad guy" (in terms of the guy who was the rebel of society) actually had the right idea. Other than that, there were way too many explosions and shootings. Almost to the point that it was sickening. But like a former poster on here said, "Hologram Man" may actually be worth looking at ... just to see what society should "not" be. If society ever got this bad, I wouldn't want to be in it.

Laura B-3 Another excellent Joe Lara movie. All the cast were great but Joe is my favorite. I saw this one quite a few times too. You gotta see this Sci-fi. It's another action flick. It's real cool.