This is one of the movies where the idea sounds great but everything else fall below satisfactory. Where TOTAL RECALL's acting was decent, JOHNNY MNEMONIC's was too much to slide by. Keanu Reeves needed to do a lot of movies like this to make his acting satisfactory in THE MATRIX (coming soon).
In a world where corporations are the rulers of the world, and a brain disorder (NAS) infects most of the world, JOHNNY MNEMONIC is about a hacker who had a hard drive implanted in his brain but has a secret file, the cure to NAS, that was too much for his brain to take. Soon everyone is after what is in his brain, the corporation Pharmakon, and the rebels, the Loteks.
This cybernetic underground world states how we sacrifice our humanity to be a part of technology. And that corporation believes in this motto: "What is right isn't as important as what is profitable". In fact so do people.
