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Johnny Mnemonic

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This was interesting, although I really rather liked the anthology "burning chrome" better (includes the short story.) I thought the screenplay was interesting because I really enjoyed the short story, and was curious to see how such a good short story became such a wretched movie. One item of note was the "rant" of "spider" (henry rollins) that seemed to have been lifted from dennis leary.

I kind of liked it but then I tend to like offbeat, quirky stories.
I hated the movie but then I'm not a big Keaneu Reeves fan.

If you pay more than $0.99 for this book you'll probably feel cheated.

I enjoyed the writing style, the pot, I did'nt care much for some of the dialogue but my husband didn't have any complaints. He recommended it to me. If he were reviewing it, he'd say it was a solid 4 star short read, I'm more set on 3.5 stars. I don't really have any complaints. Like my title. It was good enough.

The short story Johnny Mnemonic is one of my favorite short stories, and I was very excited when I heard they were making a movie of it. This was before I knew that good stories don't necessarily turn into good movies. The movie has several problems, including a screen-play that has a few too many genre cliches. Hard-core fans of William Gibson may have enjoyed spotting elements from his previous work, and in my opinion it is these hard-core fans who will enjoy this film the most. This book here has the short story (good) and the screen-play (interesting for Gibson fans and people who enjoyed the film).