Johnny Mnemonic
1995 Tristar Pictures
It's so bad it's almost good.
I could not for the life of me follow this plot. That might be due to the fact that I was really tired from being woke up to open X-Mas presents and I was drinking beer and fell asleep through most of it. What I did see, though, was truly bad acting in the classic Keanu Reeves tradition, not helped much by the presence of Ice-T, Dolph Lundgren, and Henry Rollins (yes, that's right, Henry "Hank" Rollins!), whose acting was so horrendous I couldn't believe it was him.
Now that isn't to suggest that my father's Yuletide bearing wasn't worth the five dollars he shelled out for it. In fact, while awake, I laughed whole-heartedly for about 30 minutes. Whoever made this piece of crap really tried to make a great sci-fi action movie. You can tell. But I think I can say, without a doubt, that no one likes this movie.
Here's what I do know as far as the "plot":
Johnny is a courier in the year 2021. In the future, couriers don't deliver packages or mail, they deliver data that's in a hard drive in their head. The info Johnny has in his head has everyone and their mother after him, and only Ice-T and Hank can save him.
But you coulda got all that from a trailer or the summary on the packaging.
If you're looking for a seriously GREAT sci-fi film, don't watch Johnny Mnemonic. If you're a fan of Sci-Fi Channel originals, though, for their camp humor and bad acting, then this is right up your alley, scumbag.