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John Wick Chapter 4 2023

Morpheus is so cool he's got an underground fight ring with fire circles going through channels on the ground and he's got a whole underground anti-table faction. John Wick is busy killing important people in the desert and gasp! our friends in the continental have some shit going on, they're condemned again the high table hates all this shit, they're even blown up. They got Clancy Brown and Bill Skarsgard for this movie, wasn't expecting that. And Donnie Yen as a blind assassin, he was the, also blind, priest guy from Rogue One, and the really ball-sy guy that played grenade catch with Vin Diesel in xXx 3. Anyways ooh~ Japan Continental, Wick's wise and knowledgeable sensei is the chairman there. I gotta give the movie points for having the blind assassin use motion activated doorbells to know where enemies are. There's a really quite extensive nunchuck based fight, he uses those for way longer than I expected, also a lot of nut-shots in this movie? people keep getting hit in the balls. It is vital that they have a life or death poker game with a fat german who seems to really enjoy his job. Follow that up with the obligatory awesome club fightscene with great music, reminds me of the Hitman 3 Berlin level, there's pouring water even though it's indoors and cool spotlights and it all makes for possible the best segment of the movie. Once again they're playing to people that LOVE the idea of like assassin royalty, they've got big metal cards that they can use to set rules during a 1v1 formal duel, also just by having a guy that's a Marquis who holds a lot of power but doesn't really do much. Anyways last time they sent an entire cities worth of disposable goons at Wick it didn't end well for the goons, but maybe things are better in Paris(?) also the return of car based vehicular combat! Still just as up close and melee, just flipping people with cars and shit, they play some EDM during that, along with 2 other more noteworthy and probably expensive songs, quite awesome. Also gotta love the aerial view in a building where there's no roof and Wick has an incendiary shotgun, truly this is some kinda cinematography. John Wick falls down 222 stairs after climbing them, I warned you about the stairs bro. I told you dog! The duel that follows is extremely good, a rare movie that deserves its 3 hour runtime.

Final Review: Yeah this ones pretty good, that John Wick series, it's pretty good and you should see all of them

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John Wick Chapter 3 - Parabellum 2019

Only John Wick movie to have a sub-title in parabellum, unclear why not more, odd new CGI title sequence too, that also is a first. but not a first, it picks up pretty much right after the last one, John abandons his dog to a taxi driver to take care of at the concierge, John finds 5 special trinkets in a book at the public library and beats up a really tall guy and like removes all his teeth and breaks his neck with a book, gross. John Wick makes a revolver out of a bunch of different model revolvers he takes apart, which isn't a thing that makes sense but it is cool, and then John Wick throws like 2 knives killing a bunch of nameless goons, also really cool, and then he steals a horse after a horse based fight scene and is riding that around new york while guys on motorcycles chase him, also really cool. Anyways it turns out even now there's like a mafia of his native people that can help him with his trials, and he removes all goodwill they had for him for one last bit of help. The High Court sent an Adjudicator to go judge everyone who let John Wick survive last movie, because people love the bureaucracy of a weird assassin guild. They have this fight scene happen with assassins breaking in and there's opera music playing in the background so of course the murder is like a dance and they're doing it to the beat, farming cool moments. John Wicks cool new pal, also has dogs, one of her dogs gets killed because they're both special assassin dogs, they get in situations, she and John bond over dog-revenge it's very sweet, they drop him in the desert and hijinx ensue enough for john wick to cut his finger off in hope of more help. John Wick has a motorcycle swordfight with some goons, I get that it's an action movie but they're really farming cool action scenes. Anyways in the continental Wick and a fanboy talk, and it's pretty fun having a guy that wants kill Wick fanboy out, but again farming Cool points everyone loves John Wick especially god. This is like End of Evangelion, our beloved organization of higher ups is getting raided by even more higher-ups and everyone gets killed by automatic weapons, and nice music plays during it But I don't recall if EoE had that. Anyways Wick and Bros. must guard the Continental and they have another cool moment, underwater gunfight, Wick gets smashed through like 8 glass pillars in a row. Wick gets betrayed by some people and un-betrayed by others, sequel hook, the next movie will be good.

Final Review: the most aura-farming Wick yet, it's still good but the plot definitely takes a back seat, less twists and turns, still good though it's a good series

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John Wick Chapter 2 2017

John Wick, in a way, got a dog back after revenging, but his car was still stolen so he's going to go get it back, also there's another mafia who was related to those previous mafia guys, brother I suppose. 2 more hours of John Wick killing guys for one singular goal, great fight choreography. Honestly he gets the car back pretty fast but I imagine hijinx will ensue as some kind of goons are sent after him. Huh the guy that played the mechanic to help John Wick with his car was the guy who played Luigi in the old mario movie, neat! They realized that the hitman secret society that uses gold coins and shit was huge, so they have blood oath contracts where you put a blood fingerprint in a big coin, anyways John Wick owes a guy a blood oath so he's probably going to have to kill people, he doesn't want to so his house gets blown up, but at least they don't kill his dog this time. Beginning to think every movie will be in a different location focused on a different nationality, the first being new york, russian mafia. This one being rome, italian mafia. I like the sequence of John Wick going shopping, buying guns with tons of little details being said about each gun, buying cool new suits that are bullet proof, getting maps for infiltrating the estate, goes to a nightclub, thats cool. Target kills herself in front of him, that's less cool. Reeves and other guy have a cool desperate fight and stumble into a pvp disabled zone so they have a drink and explain the situation. Everyone betray John Wick truly it is hell world, also everyone really wants to kill him, leads to some really good fight scenes with some jobbers in new york, famous stealthy suppressor shoot out in an area with other people that dont notice. They've got a really fun bit of the guy that played Morpheus showing up, and he talks to John Wick about how they met in the past and all that, obviously a reference to The Matrix, but also it's like some real lore, very fun. John Wick continues to shoot people really good in a museum this time though, and he enters a sick mirror exhibit that will provide much hijinx im sure, he breaks a rule and is now on the run, plot leadup for the next movie where he'll kill a bunch of guys

Final Review: yup, another good movie, you should continue watching these

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John Wick 2014

Movie starts strong with John Wick bleeding out at night watching a video on his iphone of his wife who is, most assuredly, super dead and fueling his famous revenge quest. Damn Willem Dafoes in this movie, he's like Keanu's secret assassin contact or friend from when he used to be an assassin, or whatever. I guess his dead wife set something up for when she died Keanu would get a dog mailed to him? I suppose it's a good way to move on from her death, it's a very cute puppy, well trained. Unfortunately some random gangsters really wanted his car so they beat him and kill his dog. He only had that dog for a day and a half, but something happened to it so now he's going to kill everyone in the room and then himself, maybe on that last one there's still like 4 more movies. Unfortunately these random gangsters messed with forces they did not understand, love how everyones reactions to these events are "aw fuck, we fucked up, oh shit." John Wick kills the fuck out of some guys and calls a special assassin body disposal service that pays with gold coins, clearly assassin-ing is a big scene, with much business to be had in it. John Wick is so cool and good at shooting people and doing flips to them and following up with a headshot. Oh hey Lance Reddick is the continental deskhelp guy. I imagine it's going to be a running joke about how casual everyone is around Wick killing people all the time, because that was his job that he got very popular at. He does that more and then "yeah, I'm thinking I'm back." Many cool things are happening, these hitmen sure are honorable, some cool and not-so-cool executions happen. John Wick kicks ass he fights like he always does when he's driving a car with a gun, he's tackling and flipping people and doing weird moves, ending with a mano e mano fisticuffs in the rain, awesome stuff. Damn the whole movie was a flashback the whole time, it's like poetry it rhymes, beginning and ending with dogs.

They made the subtitles fancy for this movie, they put emphasis in certain words and aren't just on the bottom of the screen. Neat! Also, great designs in this movie in both clothes and setting, Keanu is very slick looking in all his formal wear.

Final Review: Yeah I can see why they made 4 of these movies I suppose, Keanu Reeves is a badass, I would be down to see 3 more movies of him being a badass, it's not very like, referential though so if you're watching it to understand internet references there's really only one scene.

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Austin Powers in Goldmember 2002

Gwyneth Paltrow and Tom Cruise as Dixie Normous and Austin Powers in like, an american movie remake. also Kevin Spacey and Danny Devito, also Spielberg is making the movie. Really awesome fake-out intro, what if it was some dogshit american movie that sucked badly, really good. Anyways Dr. Evil is in hollywood and they have an evil talent agency with a bunch more popular actors at the time. Get ready for the same joke that's been in the last 2 movies being in this movie too. Austin's never before mentioned dad Nigel is missing from his knighting ceremony, so this movie will focus on his missing father that he has a bad relationship with. an Asian woman and her sister, Fook Mi and Fook Yu, well it's not very good at all and it would be good if they left the movie as soon as possible. Also they're keeping Dr. Evil in a Hannibal cell and maybe him and Austin are bonding over having bad parents or something? Also they were in college together, and basil and number two, it's really weird seeing them all young at spy college or whatever. Anyways this time the plot is happening in the 70s and Austin is dressed as a pimp in a pimp car, Goldmembers an old white guy from the netherlands on roller skates. Dr. Evil is trying to be gangster in jail or something, it sucks. They actually go to tokyo so I imagine more bad jokes are up and coming, they go to a sumo arena and Fat Bastard is there. And his jokes are bad. Really good joke does come up though with subtitles being blocked by white background and making dirty text, that's really good. Another really good joke with the 'due to international copyright law it's not godzilla' bit, and also the weird shitty cars they're using. At least they're making more self aware jokes about how they're re-using jokes from the last movie. Truly they couldn't have built upon the jokes even more in a 4th movie. They do another shadow puppets gag and it's pretty solid. Gasp! Austin Powers and Dr Evil are brothers! I genuinely wasn't expecting that, because it is kind of out of no-where. It's good though.

They definitely knew they couldn't keep the trend going on for a fourth movie. This is how the series should end, no more movies needed.

Final Review: Pretty solid still actually, the jokes are a bit more yeesh but and drag on sometimes but that's been true of every one of these movies I think, I'd still recommend watching it I think.

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Austin Powers 2 The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999

Fun starting with a star wars credit roll, also Austin Powers had his wife replaced with an evil robot, or I guess she's always been a robot so that's whyy she's not gonna be in this movie, she explodes. He celebrates this by walking around naked everwhere, odd. Also Jerry Springer show reference where the topic is evil dads and there's a nazi and a kkk guy, but also Scott Evil and Dr. Evil appears! he's back again who expected this. Really funny to have Evilcorp or whatever its name is, have invested in Starbucks in the 60s and there's just a lot of branding going on, I guess. Also there's a new Dr. Evil and it's mini-me instead of his son. Kind of an odd character since I guess he's mute and like, not smart? It's a confusing choice, anyways this is the introduction of Mojo I guess. Fat Bastard is a character, that exists. The American Austin Powers, in a similarly themed car, Felicity Shagwell appears. Mustafa played by Will Ferrel arrives again, and does the same joke as the last movie where he doesn't die but instead gets horribly injured. Dr. Evil drinks Austin's mojo and becomes sexy and has sex with Frau, that is a whole scene that happens. Fat Bastard continues being a character that exists, Dr. Evil wants to make a "Death Star". Dr. Evil pranks the president with footage from 'Independance Day' that's pretty funny, then he says a bunch of 90s slang but it's the 60s so no one understands. The shadow puppet gag is really good, and Dr. Evil and mini-me just the two of us is pretty good too. Another really good joke about the very penile rocket where everyone gets cut-off from saying penis in a way that completes the sentence anyway, that's a really good one.

They re-do a lot of jokes from the first movie but slightly different, I suppose in akin to its Star Wars opening crawl, it's like poetry it rhymes, but c'mon you can make some more new jokes.

Final Review: Surprisingly, for a sequel that copies many jokes from its very popular first movie, it's actually pretty good still, I enjoyed it.

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Austin Powers 1997

Honestly strong opening, Dr Evil is evil as fuck and wants to kill Austin Powers very badly, Austin Powers is loved by everyone and fucks many many women, goofy individual. Basil Exposition exposits that Powers needs to go to a club and plot will advance, plot advances and they cryogenically freeze into the modern era (1997). Classic joke that he thought the communists won the cold war, also the penis enlarger pump he tries to deny many times but is proven to be his. The whole scene of Dr. Evil introducing his new lackeys and new plans, Random Task, Lucky Charms guy, evil german woman. Also his evil plans that have already happened, he doesn't know anything about the outside world and its events. Anyways both Powers and Evil are weird and maladjusted from being frozen in ice. The Fembots are good, Scott and Evil going to parent-child therapy together and it turns out Evil had an evil life, or something. Really good bit of Dr. Evil fully self aware just going on with his easily escapable plan to kill Powers, and his son knows its stupid and shit but, he just doesn't get it. How do you even get a car stuck horizontally in a hallway. Fights happen plot ensues etc etc.

Final Review: Y'know I would've expected this movie to age a lot worse than it did, but it's actually pretty good still, it was hugely influential for a reason I suppose, still pretty worth watching

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Life of Brian 1979

Stars off with an ok joke of the three wise men going to the wrong baby, and also Brian's mom is a guy doing a voice and that's the obvious joke there, and that continues being the joke probably, also a really good opening song I wasn't expecting that. They do continue the joke of Holy Grail of what if people in ye olden costumes talked in a modern way and had arguments and got really mad with each other over stupid things, and it's a good joke to be clear, really good joke, very funny. Love the people arguing with each other while Jesus is giving a speech, the stoning scene is very good. 2 bad ending jokes in a row where Brian denies his roman heritage and says a bunch of words that mean jewish but you probably can't say all that now. and there's another joke where a character wants to be a woman and they have a whole thing about how he can't be a woman because he doesn't have a womb, again jokes that don't age well. They do surround that with some ok jokes though like, what if peasants were using modern civil rights much like Holy Grail, the Judean Peoples Front, kinda funny. and then another really good joke of a roman soldier threatening brian to learn better grammar, and he has to do it 100 times or something bad will happen. Pilates scene is awesome, obviously the joke of replacing 'R' sounds with 'W' sounds, and misunderstandings that ensue. but also classic very popular joke 'Biggus Dickus' with the guards trying and failing not to laugh, truly a classic of jokes. This is a scary existence Brian lives, rabid horde of fans that look to him for everything but he wants none of it, very scary life.

Really good costuming and set design in this movie, it looks very good.

Final Review: This movie is definitely more consistently solid than holy grail, but I don't think I liked it as much all in all, still a pretty good movie worth watching though, just watch out for some pretty dated jokes, it was the 80s

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975

A classic, the progenitor of internet jokes, I've never seen it before so that's what we're doing. Movie does make a very strong start with the whole coconut migratory birds etc etc thing, what if a bunch of medieval knights had a casual conversation like 2 bros, genius really. Perhaps that's most of the jokes in this movie actually, the Anarcho-syndicalist commune with no lord is a very similar joke but, it's good too. The entire black knight scene is a meme, truly no misses there. The obvious joke of the Galahad in the Chaste being in the weird sex peril castle of 150 virgins, I get the joke but perhaps it doesn't really hit 50 years later. This wizard is great, just blasting explosions everywhere for no reason, having a lot of fun with it, also Rabbit of Caerbannog, another extremely classic thing that everyone loves. Immediately after its introduction is the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, which was then put in many games for years to come. Things happen everyone gets arrested at the climax movie ends.

It's not something anyone mentions ever because this is a comedy movie famous for its comedy, but the soundtrack? surprisingly pretty solid actually, there was some good songs in this. Also, the effects, the costumes and set design, very good as well.

Final Review: Yeah turns out it's mostly still pretty funny, besides some moments here and there, if you've not seen it, I don't know if I'd recommend it but I wouldn't UN-recommend it. If you want to, do so.

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Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian

Ben Stiller is winning at life as a guy that makes trinkets for infomercials, glow-in-the-dark flashlight, everyone remembers it. Also the museum is getting rid of all the exhibits to replace them with holograms, the horror because everyone loves those exhibits and also they come to life, also also they don't like him because he left them to go be a successful businessman smelling trinkets. The biggest museum in the world, the Smithsonian archive is coming alive because of the magic tablet, Hijinx are ensuing majorly, also Ahkmenrahs shitty evil brother Kahmunrah is here and evil, and also Brundon and they have a big-dick-off in a fight, very weird, apparently that was Jonah Hill? Makes sesnse why that scene dragged on so long then, star power moment. General Custer is here and it's Bill Hader, and Amelia Earhart, Amy Adams. What happened to the female lead from the last movie, they forgot about her and replaced her with Amelia Earhart, which I feel like isn't a good choice because she is a wax model. New characters arrived, Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon Bonaparte, Young Al Capone, him and his squad are all in black and white it's a neat effect. there's a bronze bust of Theodore Roosevelt which confirms they don't share conciousnesses, also he's SO jealous over the Teddy that has a body and a horse, pretty good joke. Darth Vader and Oscar the Grouch show up This movie really forgot in the last one that they could flip one of the squares on the magic tablet to make all the museum exhibits stop being alive, that would really solve many many issues.

Once again, the movie relies on star power and scenes with famous actors stay twice as long as they should.

They had some really good effects in this movie it must be said, the animated paintings, and especially entering the paintings, super good looking effect, in general the CGI for this movie is good but, the entire point of the movie is good looking living museum displays, and they're good.

Final Review: Yeah the original movie already had some down points but this one somehow had even further downpoints, too many jokes possibly? A few people left the viewing because of that. If you watched the first one and liked it, maybe rewatch that one, don't rewatch this one though

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Night at the Museum 2006

Ben Stiller faces many hardships in life, he loves getting evicted but still lives in New York, and he's even losing his son to another man who's a better dad, life sucks but maybe getting the night shift as a security guard at a place where attractions come to life at night could be the thing that helps him. There's a bunch of old security guards that are getting fired to be replaced by him, and this happens so that they can give some ominous warnings before disappearing forever while he experiences trials and tribulations, like living dinosaur skeletons and Attila the Hun, and a regular but annoying monkey, lots of small cowboys and romans, president Robin Williams is our second cool and helpful guide that leaves the hero to figure things out for himself after helping him on night 1. I entirely forgot the old guys came back to steal the magical life bringing tablet because, not only does it bring the exhibits to life, it brings them to life too, making them maybe immortal at night? Unclear, and Teddy Roosevelt knows he's a re animated statue and has issues about it, that means the pharoah in the sarcophagus is genuinely an immortal guy who's been in there for many many years, like it's still the same guy with the same soul or whatever, Ben Stiller gets super close to 'both sides'ing the Civil War to get them to stop re-enacting but does take it back with a quick 'the north won and slavery is bad get over it'

Pretty solid CGI in this movie it must be said, like of course it is that's obviously gonna be what all the money goes towards, making the museum exhibits come to life. Also the set design is solid but, it's a museum, you can make museums pretty easily I feel. The effect for the small people was neat, y'know combining shots and green screens, it works, it looks good.

They got a bunch of popular people for this movie, recognizable names, people that don't show up for long so they're just there to point and show 'hey look! it's that guy you know!' Ricky Gervais, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Robin Williams, Patrick Gallagher, Paul Rudd but I feel like he only really became big after Antman, Owen Wilson but uncredited apparently?

Final Review: Yeah that was pretty solid, more solid than I was expecting, it relies a little bit on star power, with some scenes dragging, which is noticeable when it happens but not too often, and it does have 2 racist moments where the joke is someone saying gibberish that sounds like a foreign language but besides that y'know, pretty solid movie

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xXx: Return of Xander Cage 2017

That's right, Vin Diesel is back, in the third movie of the xXx series, wasn't in the second one despite being the lead so it wasn't worth watching. Movie starts with Samuel L Jackson explaining why skateboarding is awesome, and it does pauses with name screens and music with text showing up that explains some random unimportant trivia of the character, but it's funny or whatever. He's getting a new recruit that's a pro soccer player that kicks a metal tin at a gunmans head and knocks them out, perhaps it's awesome actually. They both get die in a satellite crash. Mcguffin enters the story, a cool box that can hack anything, and a guy immediately busts in and steals it and gun katas everyone, quite awesome. Cut to Vin Diesel in south somewhere jumping off a big metal pole and ski parkouring down a jungle, he skateboards downhill on a busy road and does awesome tricks and everyone loves him, also the CIA literally loves playing tricks and jokes on people to test them, and they gotta do that to find Vin Diesel again, he has sex with a ton of women to find information. Nina Dobrev is here as a weird nerd that doesn't stop talking and mentions safewords and shit. Vin sends a bunch of soldiers out of a plane, with parachutes but he still gets rid of them because he doesn't like them, pretty funny. Instead of those guys they get a crack team of adrenaline enthusiasts who love doing crazy shit and hate listening to authority, he continues hsi lawless ways by going to a crime party on a jungle island, gaining entrance by selling guns and being a badass, you'll note that as a theme, Vin being a badass. They play hot potato with grenades, they keep swapping them back and forth and holding the pins, very fun. They have special motorbikes that can ride on water. Hijinx ensue, they have a fight, and another fight, and Vin is a badass, they have a really cool fight scene in a plane after the big twist reveal, also Ice Cube is here he was in the second movie, whatever

Final Review: very stupid at times but very fun most of the time, some really good fight scenes

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A Minecraft Movie 2025

Interesting move to have the beginning of the movie be Jack Black narrating himself finding minecraft dimension with an artifact in the mines,he just lived there for many years. But he found a nether portal and his dog went in there and the evil piglins are going to invade and stripmine it or whatever. Enter our real world heroes Jason Momoa, pro gamer and guy whos not moved past his childhood successes or whatever. Some kids that just moved into town after their mom died and will enter wacky hijinx, their moms friend or something who's doing a homecoming? Jason Momoa and Jack Black are the only notable names. The kid is like a math whiz though he's building bombs at school or some shit. Hijinx ensues and the nerd kid immediately bonds with Momoa as his new worse dad, everyone goes to minecraft world in the abandoned mineshaft, they get attacked by zombies, Jack Black sings a song about his chicken cooked with lava, and a really gay sounding piglin called General Chungus is sent to attack them. Jason Momoa and Jack Black have a really gay co op elytra flying sequence, very odd. The vindicators and the attempt at being scary in the woodland mansion, I can't tell if they're at all good or if I'm just getting used to the CGI models. stuff happens there's a big fight yadda yadda, post credits scene with alex, and the villager x human subplot

Man, these CGI designs aren't very good, like the world looks ok I guess, but the skeletons, really bad, the villager, also really bad

Final Review: yeah that was a movie of some kind, I can't imagine not watching it with friends, it'd be unbearable otherwise, also maybe do some substances

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xXx 2002

movie starts off strong with a German? rock music festival going on that a spy is infiltrating, he gets killed and they body-surf his dead body all while rock music is playing, awesome start. The introduction to Vin Diesels character is that he steals the car of a racist old white politician that wants to ban skateboarding and rap music and videogames, and he crashes the car as justice. Vin Diesel singlehandedly stops a diner robbery as part of his cia tutorial to get a job or whatever, this is what conscription is like. They had Samuel L. Jackson as the cia director, and Danny Trejo as a cuban crimelord, Vin Diesel does extreme BMX tricks to escape getting killed by the army. Something something he's sent to northeastern europe to get undercover in a mafia, hijinx ensue, he acts like a badass, there's action scenes etc etc. Vin Diesel drops out of a plane on a snowboard to snowboard down a mountain and take out a radio tower

Final review: What a stupid movie, perhaps one of the stupidest, but you have to appreciate vin diesels dedication to his awesome badass characters. it really sells the movie. This one I do recommend if you want to watch a movie and have a fun time

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Johnny Mnemonic 1995

I appreciate this movie getting right into it, it's the year 2021 and people put computer code in their brain so it can't get stolen by rival corporations, Keanu Reeves has computer in his brain and it's no good, he downloads too much and his brain USB is fit to bursting, no good. Thankfully the Independant nation of Newark can help with his problem, but maybe not because he's been betrayed, they're going to take his brain implant out or something, or rather decapitate him and put his head in a jar. Tragic! very unfortunate for Keanu Reeves, but thankfully a bodyguard has her own problem with the situation and teams up with him, things just kind of work out for him, not much by his own luck. The bit with Keanu Reeves using cyber-gloves and a VR headset to browse the interwebs through gestures and extreme amounts of entirely CGI scenes is, truly very awesome, this will be the internet in 2021. Why do the yakuza know cyber-christian assassins, they have an entire theme going on, they have skype in their bible to take videocall hits. Also, I guess 5G is giving everyone with any kind of machinery in them cyber-aids?

Really good set and prop design, always kind of funny to see some media set in the future, and for this, it's 2021 and they're using UMDs to put information in Keanu Reeves brain with a VR headset, and they're faxing the password to other people. Fun dichotomy and all that. I LOVE the extremely shitty CGI internet world they show, what a mess that is, truly this is the peak of graphics in 1995, genius movie. Interesting soundtrack in this movie, unsure if it's good or not, but apparently there was a version with a different one which might be better? I do at least appreciate that it's not always present, they use it for stings and such. Credits song is very good, I like it

Final Review: I gotta be honest, I know people talk about this movie a lot, but I don't know if it's actually very good, not using Keanu Reeves to his best, and it's possible, like other people said, that this'd be better as a mini-series, they're trying to fit a lot into an hour and 30 minutes, and I don't know if it really works. Similarly, I don't know if this is true, but I heard it was originally a satire edited to be a an action film? if true, it would make some sense, it's not good at either, the action is very limp.