Robert Longo
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What follows is an unexpected big-budget reprise of the Keanu Reeves flop, “Johnny Mnemonic,” with Copley’s despicable assassin chasing down a man whose brain literally holds the data necessary to level the playing field between the 99% and the 1%.
Fond memories of Keanu Reeves in “Johnny Mnemonic” intoning, “I had to dump a chunk of long-term memory—my childhood” do not supplant “Transcendence”‘s grim pastiche.
Watching Hotel Artemis , I can’t help but think of movies like Johnny Mnemonic, Strange Days, and a wash of similar movies; stories set it the fairly near future where technology is just a touch ahead of our own and where the problems of today have become full, raging epidemics.
The good news is that South Korean superstar Choi Min-Sik (Oldboy) gets a mainstream American debut in a juicy role that nonetheless feels like a wasted opportunity (see: Beat Takeshi in Johnny Mnemonic).
A storyboard artist with "Johnny Mnemonic" among his credits, Natali has made several short films, including "Elevated" (1996), in which three people, trapped in an elevator, are menaced by an unseen force.
Clearly influenced by films like The Terminator, Videodrome, The Matrix, RoboCop, and there may even be a little bit of Johnny Mnemonic in there as well (hey, a girl can dream, can’t she?), Whannell transports us into the future where technology has taken over nearly ever facet of our lives, but Grey Trace (Marshall-Green) still clings to his analog-loving existence by working on classic cars and expressing his desire to make pizza from scratch.