I've never understood why this movie got to such a 'status'. Amazing list of actors; crap movie
From a retrospective POV, people are taking this movie way too seriously. Sure, it's not innovative for shite, BUT it's a great wrap up of the preceding ten years of cyberpunk-ish scifi b-movies. It's got everything you'd expect and then some. Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, David Johansen and as the list goes on even Anthony Hopkins and Mick Jagger, not to forget Amanda Plummer as a hardass nun. I only miss Fred Williamson but then again he was more on the spaghetti side of the era. There are evil corporate overlords, impoverished people in a near post apocalyptic New York, a skyline with the evil corporate lair overshadowing the Twin Towers... Pistols that don't run out of ammo until the climatic moments, future cars that do barrel rolls and explode on impact, helmets like metal afros and uniforms of spandex and leatherette. The baddies with future energy guns aim worse than stormtroopers, there are terrible quips and a laptop with a remote controlled hinge only to deliver them... There is even CGI that is pretty sophisticated for the time and awesome cliche retro trash today.
Don't watch this movie if you expect a cineast experience to write columns about, nor if you expect it to be good or even so bad it is good. But I can tell you - if this movie is for you, oh boy is it for you!
In the future, our bodies will have value.
2009 NYC isnt much different than current day 2020. Crazy "futuristic" 90s vehicles, telecom systems and everything else 90s. Jagger does play a fun bad guy. I still dont understand why this gets mentioned so much in terms of scifi greats. It's stupidly entertaining sure, but it's no Total Recall.
A real guilty pleasure. Jagger has an immensely good time.
Great soundtrack too.
Shout by J.T.VIP 8BlockedParent2018-07-06T13:58:06Z
It was strange watching this movie as it is set in a future 2009 which shockingly is not like our 2009. The police wear a combo Judge Dredd/Spaceballs type suits and the world has become a kind of Total Recall dichotomy of haves and have nots. The story itself had a lot of potential that was just never realized. Fascinating time travel concept that if you know the exact time and place a person dies you can snatch the body just prior in a sinister Heaven Can Wait/The Island type of way to keep the rich alive. It just was missing something. Strange use of Anthony Hopkins and choice by him to take this role coming off an Academy Award winning performance in Silence of the Lambs. He is barely on screen for 5 minutes and by the time we reach our climax, we don't have enough invested in his character to care whether he ever leaves the "spiritual switchboard" or not.