Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Robert Longo

Writers (WGA):

William Gibson (short story)
William Gibson (screenplay)

Release Date:

26 May 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

The future's most wanted fugitive.

Plot:

A data courier, carrying a data package literally inside his head too large to hold for long, must deliver it before he dies from it.

Plot Keywords:

Laser Beam | Hacker | Amnesia | Implant | Artificial Intelligence

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Keanu Reeves	...	Johnny Mnemonic
Dina Meyer	...	Jane
Ice-T	...	J-Bone
Takeshi Kitano	...	Takahashi (as Takeshi)
Dennis Akayama	...	Shinji
Dolph Lundgren	...	Street Preacher
Henry Rollins	...	Spider
Barbara Sukowa	...	Anna Kalmann
Udo Kier	...	Ralfi
Tracy Tweed	...	Pretty
Falconer Abraham	...	Yomamma
Don Francks	...	Hooky
Diego Chambers	...	Henson
Sherry Miller	...	Takahashi's Secretary
Arthur Eng	...	Viet

Also Known As:

Fugitivo del futuro (USA: Spanish title) (TV title)
Johnny Mnémonique (Canada: French title)

Runtime:

Japan:107 min (video version) | USA:96 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | USA:R (certificate #33529) | South Korea:15 | Philippines:R-18 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (short version) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) (longer version) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) (also edited version) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:18 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Casa Loma - 1 Austin Terrace, Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

TriStar Pictures

Trivia:

The character Molly Millions, from the original story, was changed to Jane for the film. They are very similar characters except that Molly had retractable razor blades under her fingernails and augmented vision. It is believed that the change was due to the "Molly" character being attached to the rights for any possible future Neuromancer film adaptation.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Spider is explaining to Johnny the cause of NAS.

Quotes:

Street Preacher: Jesus time.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Beast Wars: Transformers: Before the Storm (#1.24)" (1997)

Soundtrack:

I LOVE MY PARENTS

Difficult to knock acting in a script that only called for charisma

Oh man! Why so many bad reviews... if you wanted acting, WHY WERE YOU WATCHING A KEANU REEVES MOVIE?! If you wanted a thick plot with many twists and turns, you shouldn't have even went "Oh, lets go see a low budget b-film from '95!"!!! The movie didn't call for acting, they just needed a brief plot outline and charismatic actors to play the leads. When I saw this movie way back in '98 when it was on TV, I heard so many horrid reviews that were too over-analystic. When watching a film like "Dude Where's My Car?", are you going to look for the same quality you saw in a film like "The Usual Suspects"? Keanu Reeves did his role only good enough to support the movie... That's fine!!! The plot was a cliche cyber-thriller and you must have known that even just buy the back of the box or the trailer. It delivered a plot that was kind of cool, an star that does some one-liners, and action. If these three things were not what you wanted from this film then you shouldn't have went. It just delivers an action/adventure movie, nothing short of what promised. Don't be critical on films that are obviously intended as sheer dumb fun from start to finish... if these scripts even tried to be thinker, they'd be boring... AND YOU KNOW IT!