Anything with Laurence Fishburne has got to be cool as he hasn't missed yet. I hadn't seen a current movie in some while so I figured, ok, let's steal it and see what goes. (There is a spoiler. You may want to bail now.)
At first there was lots of hacker stuff and I was about to give up on it. I don't really need to see endless edits of screens showing IP addresses, obsolete IBM tape drives, or somebody typing. That didn't last so long as NOMAD started contacting them. Since they're (cough) hackers, what else should they do. Despite the pleas of an annoyed girlfriend, the three three of them go off to find NOMAD.
Weird shit ensues. Lots of it. Fishburne is leading us so presumably it goes somewhere cool but it's a lot of weird shit.
That would be ok as lots of movies get by on weird shit. Monty Python made millions on speech impediments.
The end is what thumped it. Bail now if you don't like spoilers.
When it becomes clear that Fishburne is a machine too you'll be kind of pissed that the whole movie comes down to an obvious punchline.
But then there's more weird shit.
There's some inexplicable multidimensional shift and now there are machine creatures all over the place in some twisted surreal machine world where Fishburne, presumably, is the Machine God.
Fade to black.
Pfft. That ending was like a soda jerk putting some whipped cream on it as an afterthought.
Review: C - Interesting enough but wouldn't watch it again
At first there was lots of hacker stuff and I was about to give up on it. I don't really need to see endless edits of screens showing IP addresses, obsolete IBM tape drives, or somebody typing. That didn't last so long as NOMAD started contacting them. Since they're (cough) hackers, what else should they do. Despite the pleas of an annoyed girlfriend, the three three of them go off to find NOMAD.
Weird shit ensues. Lots of it. Fishburne is leading us so presumably it goes somewhere cool but it's a lot of weird shit.
That would be ok as lots of movies get by on weird shit. Monty Python made millions on speech impediments.
The end is what thumped it. Bail now if you don't like spoilers.
When it becomes clear that Fishburne is a machine too you'll be kind of pissed that the whole movie comes down to an obvious punchline.
But then there's more weird shit.
There's some inexplicable multidimensional shift and now there are machine creatures all over the place in some twisted surreal machine world where Fishburne, presumably, is the Machine God.
Fade to black.
Pfft. That ending was like a soda jerk putting some whipped cream on it as an afterthought.
Review: C - Interesting enough but wouldn't watch it again
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