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| Review Summary |
Johnny has had to lose all memory of his childhood to become a Mnemonic courier, a person who can carry data in their brains. To be able to regain his memories, Johnny must carry the most important data ever, the cure to a worldwide disease. Unfortunately if the data is not extracted within two days johnny will die and the cure will be lost forever. with the help of his female bodyguard and a robotic dolphin, Johnny must find the means to extract the data and broadcast it to the world.
Cheryl, Resident Scholar
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Johnny Smith is a mnemonic courier - an agent who transports data in an implant in his brain. To afford to retire, he agrees to one last run from Beijing to Newark, overloading his 180 gigabyte capacity with 320. He does not know what the data is, but realizes its importance when Yakuza Crime Syndicate assassins burst in and kill the Pharmakom defectors who have just uploaded it into his head. The download code does not get fully faxed to Newark, so although he escapes, he now faces neural failure within hours, then death, unless he can find a way to download.
One of the hit men, Shinji, delivers the salvaged part of the code to Takahashi, a businessman whose daughter has recently died from Nerve Attenuation Syndrome. NAS is a fatal epidemic for which Pharmakom sells treatment but not a cure. Pharmakom's deceased founder/CEO Anna Kalman "haunts" Takahashi: Her neural net personna flickers onto screens and talks to him wherever he goes. She warns him not to trust Shinji. He ignores her tip that the data Johnny carries is valuable, and targets Johnny with a pseudo-religious bionic hit man called Street Preacher.
Johnny's own agent, Ralfi, helps Shinji capture him, with the intent of severing and cryogencially preserving his head. But Jane, a mercenary bodyguard, saves, befriends, and accompanies him. She has friends in the LoTechs, resistance movement opposing the ruling high-tech corporations.
Recurrent head pain reminds Johnny that time is running out. Jane takes him to Spider, an anti-establishment "flesh mechanic" she hopes can remove the implant. Spider tells them that the implant contains the cure for NAS, and urges Johnny to sacrifice some motor skills for a crude removal. But Street Preacher arrives and kills Spider. Johnny and Jane escape. J-Bone of the LoTechs leads them to "Jones," a navy decryption expert who happens to be a dolphin. As Jones works on breaking the download code, Takahashi, Shinji, and Street Preacher arrive to threaten Johnny with a sword, a retractable laser-wire thumb implant, fights, fires, falls, and guns. Even if the decryption and download can succeed, can he survive?
vjm, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Spying - Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- rescue mission/escape from confinement
Character operated on/altered?
Yes
Kind of alteration:
- Controlling microchip in brain
If the enemy is a group...
- evil organization
- big corporation/rich guy
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- servant
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) crewcut/very short
- (man) short/medium straight
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- very skinny (female)
- average (female)
How much in movie?
- 80%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Robot
- a fight for survival
Profession/status:
- navy soldier
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Intelligence
- Genius
Setting
Big cities?
Yes
In virtual reality?
Yes
Kind of city
- Dirty, crime-ridden (like NY)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Tone of movie
- depressed/sad
- fearful
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
- A lot of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Rap/hip-hop
- Techno/disco
Is this movie based on a
- book
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