It’s a half-way decent short story by William Gibson, but let’s face it, it’s still silly.

Keanu almost out-Keanu’s himself with wooden acting, Beat Takeshi does, well, not very much except look dour and Japanese, Dolph Lundgren is a demented cyber-priest, Henry Rollins is an shouty cyber-surgeon, Ice-T is the leader of the cyber-rebellion who all dress like bad guys from Mad Max with worse make-up, they use the word cyber way too much, and the internet is the usual 3D skyscrapers and traffic visualisation that sci-fi’s been telling us is coming since Gibson wrote Neuromancer way back when.

Still, it’s pretty funny in an MST3K-without-the-robots kinda way. Turn your brain off and you won’t hate it that much.

Some of Keanu’s acting is so bad as to be almost MST3K-worthy. The goggles/gloves matrix sequences are splendid, however. Some plot elements are great, others are horrible. This is basically a partly hilarious film that nevertheless realises its cyberpunk setting but remains a bit of a grab-bag.

And where’s Molly?