I've not seen Johnny Mnemonic in years, but I seem to remember thinking it was a bit crap I'm afraid.
I thought The Matrix was OK, but it was a bit of an Emperor's new clothes situation. I'd been a fan of Hong Kong cinema for years at that point, so the wire-fu was pretty old hat to me. The rest was a lot of goth/cyberpunk posturing really, and I thought it was a bit up it's own arse. But fun though!
I thought the sequels were basically just more of the same, but with far too much endlass pseudo-philosophical waffle and not enough fighting!
I suspect the original film really did well because of the fanboy fallout from The Phantom Menace!
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I thought The Matrix was OK, but it was a bit of an Emperor's new clothes situation. I'd been a fan of Hong Kong cinema for years at that point, so the wire-fu was pretty old hat to me. The rest was a lot of goth/cyberpunk posturing really, and I thought it was a bit up it's own arse. But fun though!
I thought the sequels were basically just more of the same, but with far too much endlass pseudo-philosophical waffle and not enough fighting!
I suspect the original film really did well because of the fanboy fallout from The Phantom Menace!