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Johnny Mnemonic

( Catalog Number 73476 )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

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One of the Best Versions on LaserDisc

Johnny Mnemonic
1995 - 98 min. - Color
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Loosely based on a story by cyber-pioneer William Gibson, this futuristic thriller centers on a the title character (Keanu Reeves), a courier who loads vital data straight into his brain for storage and safe transport. Johnny has given up brainspace that his childhood memories occupied in order to save space for his chosen profession. He wants to pull one last job before he retires, and the one he gets is particularly perilous. He's got 48 hours to transport a large load of data from Beijing to Newark--and some futuristic samurai don't want him to make it to his destination! The directorial debut of conceptual artist Robert Longo is full of arresting visuals painting a bleak, yet eye-popping, vision of the future.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In a near-future world in which the fast-paced digital lifestyle has given rise to a worldwide plague called Nerve Attenuation Syndrome, Johnny (Keanu Reeves), a data courier, accepts an assignment that he hopes will allow him to pay for the restoration of the childhood memories he dumped in order to outfit his brain with the microchip necessary for him to carry out his profession. Narrowly escaping a Yakuza ambush in which his employers are killed and the mnemonic trigger capable of unlocking the data in his brain is partially destroyed, Johnny travels from Beijing to New Jersey, where he hopes to recover the data before "neural seepage" destroys his mind. Teaming up with would-be bodyguard Jane (Dina Meyer) and a rebel group known as the LoTeks who live in an abandoned bridge, he tries to outrun the assassins of mysterious businessman Takahashi (Beat Takeshi Kitano) --- and the Street Preacher (Dolph Lundgren), a bionic madman. Along the way, he meets a mysterious electronic entity, a sentient dolphin, and Spider (Henry Rollins), a cybernetics expert, all of whom attempt, with various degrees of success, to learn why the data in Johnny's head is so important. Science fiction author William Gibson's original short story Johnny Mnemonic helped usher in the age of cyberpunk when it appeared in Omni magazine in 1981; it later appeared in the collection Burning Chrome (alongside the story that provided the basis for Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel). Although Gibson himself wrote the screenplay for Johnny Mnemonic, the film diverges considerably from the story. Molly Mirrors, a recurring character in Gibson's fiction, was replaced by the figure of Jane to fend off licensing conflicts with any future film version of Neuromancer, the author's most celebrated novel. Other plot elements --- most notably the LoTeks' bridge habitat --- were borrowed from later Gibson fiction such as the novel Virtual Light. --- Brian J. Dillard

Keanu Reeves' road to The Matrix was paved with several subpar techno-thrillers, none so dire as this disappointing collaboration between visual artist Robert Longo and cyberpunk auteur William Gibson. Given that Gibson's fiction basically transformed Blade Runner imagery into razor-sharp prose, it seems like the transformation would work in reverse. But Gibson and Longo get it all wrong, littering their film with clumsy exposition and stale action scenes that are miles away from the taut precision of the original short story. Molly, the knife-fingered enigma with the built-in sunglasses who made Johnny Mnemonic and the novel Neuromancer so cool and compelling, is replaced by Jane, an all-too-conventional girlfriend character with a thin veneer of tough-girl bravado. Newcomer Dina Meyer fails to invest the part with much wit or style, but she's no worse than Reeves, who proves incapable of enlivening the stale lost-childhood cliches with which Gibson saddles his character. In fact, the actor's most inspired line reading ("I want room service! I want a club sandwich! I want the cold Mexican beer! I want a 10,000-dollar-a-night hooker!") was reportedly an ad lib, which doesn't say much for the screenplay. Throw in Dolph Lungren and Henry Rollins in a pair of pseudo-intellectual, testosterone-soaked supporting roles and you've got an action film whose supposed smarts and heart make it far more excruciating than any straightforward genre exercise. Then there are the visual effects, which reduce Gibson's vision of Internet-based virtual reality to something that looks like an old MTV promo. Only the presence of ice-cold Beat Takeshi Kitano, the amusingly creepy Udo Kier, and the blustery Ice-T (playing virtually the identical character he essayed in Tank Girl the same year) provide any measure of incidental viewing pleasure. In all other respec

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Cast for Johnny Mnemonic

Keanu Reeves - Johnny Mnemonic
Dolph Lundgren - Street Preacher
Beat Takeshi Kitano - Takahashi
Ice-T - J-Bone
Dina Meyer
Udo Kier - Ralphy
Tracy Tweed - Pretty
Silvio Oliviero - Stick
Henry Rollins - Spider
Barbara Sukowa - Anna Kalmann
Coyote Shivers - Buddy
Marlow Vella - Lotek Kid
Lynne Adams - Rocket Launcher Yakuza
Denis Akiyama - Shinji
Falconer Abraham - Yomamma
Sherry Miller - Takahashi's Secretary
Gene Mack - Laslo
Von Flores - Viet
Don Francks - Hooky

Crew for Johnny Mnemonic

Robert Longo - Director
Don Carmody - Producer
William Gibson - Screenwriter
Francois Protat - Cinematographer
Brad Fiedel - Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Ronald Sanders - Editor
Nilo Rodis-Jamero - Production Designer
Dennis Davenport - Art Director
Jean Desormeaux - Associate Producer
Staffan Ahrenberg - Executive Producer
Robert Lantos - Executive Producer
B.J. Rack - Executive Producer
Enrico Campana - Set Designer
Olga Dimitrov - Costume Designer
Linda Gill - Makeup
Rory Cutler - Special Effects
Fantasy II Film Effects - Special Effects
John Nelson - Special Effects
Gene Warren, Jr. - Special Effects
Michael Zenon - First Assistant Director
Syd Mead - Consultant/advisor
Vic Armstrong - Stunts / Second Unit Director
Douglas Ganton - Sound/Sound Designer
John Buchan - Casting

Feature Details

Title: Johnny Mnemonic
Feature Release Date: 1995
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 98 Minutes
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Catalog Number: 73476
UPC: 043396734760
ISBN: 0-8001-8191-3
Manufacturer: DADC USA
Publisher: Columbia Tri-Star Video

Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Closed Caption: English
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 73476-N
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren and Udo Kier in...

Johnny Mnemonic

( Catalog Number 73476 )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

One of the Best Versions on LaserDisc

Johnny Mnemonic
1995 - 98 min. - Color
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Loosely based on a story by cyber-pioneer William Gibson, this futuristic thriller centers on a the title character (Keanu Reeves), a courier who loads vital data straight into his brain for storage and safe transport. Johnny has given up brainspace that his childhood memories occupied in order to save space for his chosen profession. He wants to pull one last job before he retires, and the one he gets is particularly perilous. He's got 48 hours to transport a large load of data from Beijing to Newark--and some futuristic samurai don't want him to make it to his destination! The directorial debut of conceptual artist Robert Longo is full of arresting visuals painting a bleak, yet eye-popping, vision of the future.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In a near-future world in which the fast-paced digital lifestyle has given rise to a worldwide plague called Nerve Attenuation Syndrome, Johnny (Keanu Reeves), a data courier, accepts an assignment that he hopes will allow him to pay for the restoration of the childhood memories he dumped in order to outfit his brain with the microchip necessary for him to carry out his profession. Narrowly escaping a Yakuza ambush in which his employers are killed and the mnemonic trigger capable of unlocking the data in his brain is partially destroyed, Johnny travels from Beijing to New Jersey, where he hopes to recover the data before "neural seepage" destroys his mind. Teaming up with would-be bodyguard Jane (Dina Meyer) and a rebel group known as the LoTeks who live in an abandoned bridge, he tries to outrun the assassins of mysterious businessman Takahashi (Beat Takeshi Kitano) --- and the Street Preacher (Dolph Lundgren), a bionic madman. Along the way, he meets a mysterious electronic entity, a sentient dolphin, and Spider (Henry Rollins), a cybernetics expert, all of whom attempt, with various degrees of success, to learn why the data in Johnny's head is so important. Science fiction author William Gibson's original short story Johnny Mnemonic helped usher in the age of cyberpunk when it appeared in Omni magazine in 1981; it later appeared in the collection Burning Chrome (alongside the story that provided the basis for Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel). Although Gibson himself wrote the screenplay for Johnny Mnemonic, the film diverges considerably from the story. Molly Mirrors, a recurring character in Gibson's fiction, was replaced by the figure of Jane to fend off licensing conflicts with any future film version of Neuromancer, the author's most celebrated novel. Other plot elements --- most notably the LoTeks' bridge habitat --- were borrowed from later Gibson fiction such as the novel Virtual Light. --- Brian J. Dillard

Keanu Reeves' road to The Matrix was paved with several subpar techno-thrillers, none so dire as this disappointing collaboration between visual artist Robert Longo and cyberpunk auteur William Gibson. Given that Gibson's fiction basically transformed Blade Runner imagery into razor-sharp prose, it seems like the transformation would work in reverse. But Gibson and Longo get it all wrong, littering their film with clumsy exposition and stale action scenes that are miles away from the taut precision of the original short story. Molly, the knife-fingered enigma with the built-in sunglasses who made Johnny Mnemonic and the novel Neuromancer so cool and compelling, is replaced by Jane, an all-too-conventional girlfriend character with a thin veneer of tough-girl bravado. Newcomer Dina Meyer fails to invest the part with much wit or style, but she's no worse than Reeves, who proves incapable of enlivening the stale lost-childhood cliches with which Gibson saddles his character. In fact, the actor's most inspired line reading ("I want room service! I want a club sandwich! I want the cold Mexican beer! I want a 10,000-dollar-a-night hooker!") was reportedly an ad lib, which doesn't say much for the screenplay. Throw in Dolph Lungren and Henry Rollins in a pair of pseudo-intellectual, testosterone-soaked supporting roles and you've got an action film whose supposed smarts and heart make it far more excruciating than any straightforward genre exercise. Then there are the visual effects, which reduce Gibson's vision of Internet-based virtual reality to something that looks like an old MTV promo. Only the presence of ice-cold Beat Takeshi Kitano, the amusingly creepy Udo Kier, and the blustery Ice-T (playing virtually the identical character he essayed in Tank Girl the same year) provide any measure of incidental viewing pleasure. In all other respec

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Cast for Johnny Mnemonic

Keanu Reeves - Johnny Mnemonic
Dolph Lundgren - Street Preacher
Beat Takeshi Kitano - Takahashi
Ice-T - J-Bone
Dina Meyer
Udo Kier - Ralphy
Tracy Tweed - Pretty
Silvio Oliviero - Stick
Henry Rollins - Spider
Barbara Sukowa - Anna Kalmann
Coyote Shivers - Buddy
Marlow Vella - Lotek Kid
Lynne Adams - Rocket Launcher Yakuza
Denis Akiyama - Shinji
Falconer Abraham - Yomamma
Sherry Miller - Takahashi's Secretary
Gene Mack - Laslo
Von Flores - Viet
Don Francks - Hooky

Crew for Johnny Mnemonic

Robert Longo - Director
Don Carmody - Producer
William Gibson - Screenwriter
Francois Protat - Cinematographer
Brad Fiedel - Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Ronald Sanders - Editor
Nilo Rodis-Jamero - Production Designer
Dennis Davenport - Art Director
Jean Desormeaux - Associate Producer
Staffan Ahrenberg - Executive Producer
Robert Lantos - Executive Producer
B.J. Rack - Executive Producer
Enrico Campana - Set Designer
Olga Dimitrov - Costume Designer
Linda Gill - Makeup
Rory Cutler - Special Effects
Fantasy II Film Effects - Special Effects
John Nelson - Special Effects
Gene Warren, Jr. - Special Effects
Michael Zenon - First Assistant Director
Syd Mead - Consultant/advisor
Vic Armstrong - Stunts / Second Unit Director
Douglas Ganton - Sound/Sound Designer
John Buchan - Casting

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