Johnny Mnemonic

Again, like I have said in many of my posts.... This is my first time seeing Johnny Mnemonic. To be honest, I really liked it. Not only was the plot line incredibly interesting, it was nice to see Ice-Tea playing a serious role (that's not a joke, he was the leader of the Low-Techs). What was weird though, was to see Keanu Reeves playing an almost identical role as the one he played in The Matrix (the 'one' who was sent to save the world). On another note, the movie was really intriguing in the way the director portrayed the future with the issue of human information carriers. The way that people can simply have implants in their heads that act as hard-drives that are capable of storing information that can be transported is phenomenal. It is almost analogous to e-mail. This movie was made in 1995, when the Internet was in its infancy, so the directors were really visionaries in that aspect. Overall I really enjoyed this movie. Johnny Mnemonic made me think about how people in the past as well as present envision the future and its digital capabilities... it's wild. I really enjoyed the film, if not for it's special effects, the way the viewer is forced to see a wild and wonderful vision of the future is spectacular.