Review – Ghost in the Machine

The title phrase could have been put to better use. Here it’s literally the plot of the movie: the disembodied soul of a serial killer is zapped into the cybernetic netherworld by a malfunctioning MRI machine. Having thus been enabled to travel through computer networks and household electrical wires, he is in an excellent position to resume where he left off, killing people in his victims’ address books. Karen Allen does her best as a single mom trying to save her friends and relatives from the bad guy. But she doesn’t have much to work with. Just about everything in this movie from the music to the visual effects to the technology references is dated to the early 90s, and just about everything has been done to better effect in other productions. Thus a decade later this as outdated as a ten-year-old computer, a historical curiosity but not much else. Mildly amusing