tiresome, pretentious special-effects movie

Rating: 1/10 (10 May 1999)

I had high hopes, but this movie was terrible. The storyline was woefully pretentious and the action scenes were so-so; the fight scenes were particularly risible. It looked like Hong Kong action cinema with the last thin tethers to reality removed.
Movies like this are sucking the oxygen out of science fiction; they touch all the bases, but there's no trace of intelligent thought or emotion behind the pompous story-line. Ah, well. If William Gibson can't write a decent cyberpunk movie script, who can?