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The Corporation [VHS]

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This movie was written by the same mastermind responsible for such classics as "Body Chemistry 4", "The Skateboard Kid 2" and "Poison Ivy: The New Seduction". As you can imagine, this one stinks to high heaven.

Ian Ziering is Darrin, a sought after hot shot in the field of computer games. The company CTC throws a bunch of money at him and he and his wife Deb (Katherine Kelly Lang) move to the Las Vegas area so that he can go to work on a new game CTC is developing.

There's a twist to the story and it's beyond belief. CTC is releasing millions of copies of a game called Amazing Mouse Race for free. Why? Because it contains a subliminal message telling everyone to buy their next game, Radical Rat Trap, no matter how much it costs. Evidently, they think that even in this modern age of technology nobody would ever notice the messages. They also must've thought that nobody in the world would think it was odd if millions of people started acting like zombies in front of their computers and then went out and spent hundreds of dollars on a new computer game. DUH!

There are so many holes in this story that I couldn't even possibly take the time out of my life to go into them all. The acting is as over the top as the plot. Poor Ian Ziering...his one shot at becoming a movie star and it had to be a piece of dreck like this.

THE CORPORATION has a good idea but it's not done very well at all. Ian Ziering stars as Darren Danvers, an up and coming video game designer, who has recently been hired by an upper scale corporation. They pay him in the six figures, give him his own car, a house, and all the perks that go with such a valuable position. Katherine Kelly Lang is his wife, who wants to finish getting her PHd, something the other wives at the corporation think the company will frown upon. Andrew Stevens heads up the corporation, and it isn't long before we realize there's something going on here. Seems like subliminal messages are being put on a new game that will encourage all owners to rush out and buy its upgrade. To test this subliminal text, they do some pretty bizarre things to the members of the corporation as well. High tech murder.
Unfortunately, the direction is vapid and the script has so many holes, including an anticlimactic ending and no clear understanding of how things will resolve.
Dee Wallace Stone overacts shamelessly as one of the wives and Larry Mannetti is zombie like and it's not because of the video game.
Ziering does a good job in his leading role, but the script helms him in and never lets him fully develop.
Nice try, but ultimately, a miss.