Hologram Man (1995)

Director:

Richard Pepin

Writers:

Evan Lurie (screenplay)
Evan Lurie (story)

Release Date:

8 April 1995 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

A Criminal Mind In An Indestructible Body

Plot:

Five years after the mad terrorist Norman Galagher was sentenced to holographic stasis, he is given a parole hearing...

Plot Keywords:

Hologram | Policewoman Killing | Reverse Footage | Electrocution | Desert Eagle

Cast

Joe Lara	...	Decoda
Evan Lurie	...	Slash Gallagher
Michael Nouri	...	Edward Jameson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Amos	...	Wes Strickland
Tina Arning	...	Hostage
Tody Bernard	...	Corum
Rod Britt	...	Treasury Manager
Chuck Butto	...	Treasurer
Joseph Campanella	...	Dr. Stern
Alex Cord	...	Governor Hampton
James Daughton	...	Captain / Chairman
Arabella Holzbog	...	Natalie
David Kagen	...	Chief of Police
Kathrin Lautner	...	Corporate spokesperson
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister	...	Eightball
Jim Maniaci	...	Thug
Derek McGrath	...	Secretary Culkin
Stephen Quadros	...	Thug #2
Scott Riddle	...	Police rookie
William Sanderson	...	Manny / Giggles
Anneliza Scott	...	Carradine
Michele Smith	...	Casey
Paul G. Volk	...	TAC sergeant
Nicholas Worth	...	One-Eye

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, a sex scene and language.

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Australia:R | USA:R

Trivia:

The "Future Cops" are using the uniforms from "V" (1984).

Quotes:

Slash Gallagher: My name is Slash Gallagher!

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Svengoolie: Hologram Man" (2001)

It had so much potential...

PM Entertainment was really starting to roll around this point, and they were probably thinking this was going to be their breakthrough point. They apparently had a sizable budget, great locations, and a screenplay filled with action and a huge body count.

Upon seeing the finished product, it seems something went very VERY wrong. Most of the blame can be put on the incompetent editing (the problem that you usually find on the particular PM movies that went wrong.) Often new scenes start up in what seems to be the MIDDLE of the scene - including the opening sequence! Action sequences sometimes are missing key shots, so that people or vehicles are suddenly in a new position without us seeing how they got there. If a particular action scene isn't confusingly cut like that, it's instead cut in a way that makes all the shooting and explosions boring.

Elsewhere in the movie, a few shots are sliced up and spread throughout the particular scene (in one instance, it results in someone dying, then seen miraculously alive!) And some scenes are utterly useless, like the scene where the hero goes through a virtual reality training course. Sure, the computer graphics (for the time) aren't bad, but this scene serves no purpose except for eye candy.

The rest of the movie is mostly just as forgettable. Having both a hero and a villain look and act like Lorenzo Lamas was probably not a good idea. I admit I did get a few giggles with William Sanderson cast as a computer geek. There are a few other laughs, but otherwise it's an unbelievably dull effort that seems to go on forever. The only possible explanation I can think of is that maybe the work-in-progress cut was mistakenly shipped to the video people instead of the final cut.