Talk about a surprise! I was expecting a schlock, but I’ve seen a nice move. A dumb one, but still.
The plot is the biggest problem: a serial killer has an MRI and due to electric storm gets his soul moved to computer network. With this, he becomes able to:
- kill person by moving to a microwave and changing its settings,
- kill a dog by arousing it with a TV program (using nothing by electric breakers), then hitting the dog with a VHS tape ejected from a VHS player which causes the animal to run towards the pool
It makes as little sense in the context of the movie as it does here. But the acting is (at the very least) acceptable and the FX are better than they should - and there is a lot of them. Moreover, the camera work is crazy! The movie looks better than it should. It seems that this dumb, little movie got more passion in it than the entire MCU combined.
The problem is that I have no idea what was going on. People were dying, cool computer interfaces were shown, but the plot barely connected those scenes together.
It’s a classic thriller from early days of personal computing revolution. I enjoyed it a lot. It is not a good movie, but it is enjoyable.
I give it a 3.0/5.
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