Review – Johnny Mnemonic

This stinker turned out to be one of the big nails in the coffin of the cyberpunk sub-genre (or at least the first wave thereof), so I suppose we’re all at least somewhat in its debt. Other than that, however, it’s an especially dull example of its particular ilk. Keanu Reeves stars as a mnemonic courier, sort of a human Zip drive who has replaced his own human memories with storage banks for data files. He ends up with something really important saved in his head, and as a result no end of postmodern baddies are trying to suck his brains out. Ice T and Henry Rollins also make appearances, as does a really fake-looking dolphin. So you can probably tell where all this is going. See if desperate