... it's still a shot in the arm.
Before it wears out its welcome in the last 1/2 hour (too many set-ups where people "break" and run off as though dance routine-ing, when someone had the upper hand on the other, guns incl.), this is a rich body of material come to life with recognizable actors who, one would think, would want to be part of the next generation of art/culture/thought: Ice-T and Henry Rollins in a William Gibson movie? Lo Teks brought up out of the story (et al.) and located in a milieu where they could broadcast back, using technology that, by then (1995), would be familiar to filmgoers? Methinks there was more than a sly hint or two up Gibson's sleeve as towards pushing the audience a bit "left-of-center" and more towards a sustainable future that didn't entail asking corporations in their benevolence or governments in their competence and infinite wisdom to look after us. Radical chic don't work if it ain't "got that swing," though, and this movie's a hoot and a holler ("All ... I ... want ... is: laundered .... shirts, a (hand gesture) club sandwich ... and colllld Mexican beer," or however the line goes -- yeah buddy, that's how they get ya!), and fun for people who're willing to climb on board.
I'm surprised I regretted missing it more than I thought I would ... 2018's a little late to catch up, but as they say better than never. Now go read Neuromancer before I look at you funny and you start stammering out excuses.
Before it wears out its welcome in the last 1/2 hour (too many set-ups where people "break" and run off as though dance routine-ing, when someone had the upper hand on the other, guns incl.), this is a rich body of material come to life with recognizable actors who, one would think, would want to be part of the next generation of art/culture/thought: Ice-T and Henry Rollins in a William Gibson movie? Lo Teks brought up out of the story (et al.) and located in a milieu where they could broadcast back, using technology that, by then (1995), would be familiar to filmgoers? Methinks there was more than a sly hint or two up Gibson's sleeve as towards pushing the audience a bit "left-of-center" and more towards a sustainable future that didn't entail asking corporations in their benevolence or governments in their competence and infinite wisdom to look after us. Radical chic don't work if it ain't "got that swing," though, and this movie's a hoot and a holler ("All ... I ... want ... is: laundered .... shirts, a (hand gesture) club sandwich ... and colllld Mexican beer," or however the line goes -- yeah buddy, that's how they get ya!), and fun for people who're willing to climb on board.
I'm surprised I regretted missing it more than I thought I would ... 2018's a little late to catch up, but as they say better than never. Now go read Neuromancer before I look at you funny and you start stammering out excuses.