GUILTY VIEWING PLEASURES
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Info:
- Release Date: May 26, 1995
- Creators: Robert Longo (director), William Gibson (writer)
- Genre: Cyberpunk
- Rating: ★★★★☆
Plot:
- Plot taken (sorta) from William Gibson's cyberpunk short story by the same name. Johnny, an information receptacle, has too much valuable information concerning Nerve Attenuation Syndrome crammed into his brain and will die if it isn't released soon. This suspiciously reminds me of "Finals Week" at Cornell.
Notes:
- The opening scene with Johnny in black briefs & a hotel hooker
- Jane straddling Johnnyand haggling a price for saving his head
- Henry Rollins as Spider, the amicably tough and thoroughly competent doctor
- Dolph Lundgren as the absolutely psycho, virtually unstoppable Street Preacher
- Ice-T as the low-tech J-Bone
- Val Kilmer left film for Batman Forever
Cast:
- Keanu Reeves as Johnny
- Dina Meyer as Jane
- Henry Rollins as Spider
- Ice-T as J-Bone
- Takeshi Kitano as Takahashi
- Dolph Lundgren as Street Preacher
- Udo Kier as Ralfi
- Barbara Sukowa as Anna
- Coyote Shivers as Buddy