Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)

Virtual Reality is a normal thing nowadays especially in the gaming industry. If you watch this flick it's funny to see how they thought back then what VR should be. So far so good but that's the only positive thing I can say.To be honest, it has nothing to do with the original Lawnmower Man (1992). We do have Jobe ( the VR) but this time al acting is done by other actors. Still, it doesn't make sense at all. But for me made in 1996 the effects are really laughable, so cheapie. It do has an atmosphere that reminded me of Blade Runner (1982) and The Terminator (1984) only those were better done effect wise and story wise. Completely outdated but only to watch if you want to see what they thought the future would look like with cell phones and VR.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

I am rather amused at all the people here, who seem to hate on this movie just because its not exactly the same to Lawnmower man, or bash on it for the "Barely there plot". Well, growing up on horror flicks like I did, I can honestly say this HAS A plot, its just everyone's looking for some schlocky sci-fi plot and missing the real one.In a nutshell the plot is pretty simplistic, Jobe is a cripple, def and Dumb, who's brain has been hardwired to every computer in the world, after spending a life time crippled, and helpless he now has COMPLETE control, and absolute power, or near it. Jobe now wants to take over the world, and keep every single person in his cyber-world, and its up to the two Scientist doctors, and the male leads hacker minions, to try and stop them. Its a fairly schlocky, straight forward plot.A big turn on about this movie, is the Special Effects, a lot of people seem to be saying their "Bad" but considering the era this movie was made in, their decent. Tron it is not. But it's not on par with plan 9 from outer space either.The actors deliver a variable performance, nothing really stands out, or draws away. The actor playing Jobe is rather creepy, and genuinely gives off that "off his nut, power hungry" personification up until the end.All in all, this movie was a fairly straight forward run, more about the special effects then the plot, and simply didn't hold up well to the tests of time. The only bit that confused me in the least, was the "Pyramid" or "Egypt" analogy.

First of all I think Matt Frewer is a good actor. His role in Star Trek Next Generation as a bogus time travelling scientist was excellent and reminded me of James "Jim" Carrey. In this he tries very hard but the script and directing is not there at all. This "sequel" seems to contradict the ending of the first film completely and so I ended up watching it for the hilarious clichéd moments. Here's a list:The tag line is laughable "God made him simple, science made him a god, now he wants revenge." What the hell is that about? He wants revenge? For what? On whom?"Accessing secret files" What computer would ever say that?"We have to make Jobe so angry he destroys himself". That part had me in hysterics. Trace's ludicrous explanation why that would work.The fact that Jobe is somehow alive despite in the previous film he was practically incinerated.That weird bit in the middle where they try to find out who wrote a computer program by looking at a 3D image of a word.The bit where Jobe start to use bad language was really unexpected and very unnecessary.The over the top and pointless sword fight at the end. I thought Jobe had to destroy himself? Why the sword fight?That scary looking blonde woman. What was her role in the film exactly?The cliché of Trace the old computer master is now living a "simple" life in the desert.Homeless kids somehow have ganged together, taught themselves computer science to the degree that they know more than the average adult and have expensive equipment that WORKS in an old train.The Chiron chip. That thing really confused me. What was it and what was that talk of Egypt? How can everyone live in cyberspace? Their bodies would die. The whole idea is ridiculous.Trace's weird and annoying shaped mouth.That fight where Trace picks up a TV and smashes it on someone's head. It was clearly fake it looked like it weighed as much as a cardboard box.The whole film made absolutely NO SENSE.Still it made me laugh.

When I saw "Lawnmower Man", I thought that it was one of the most interesting movies that I'd ever seen. When I saw "Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace" a few weeks later, I couldn't understand how it was supposed to be related to the first one. Containing a plot too confusing to discuss, not only did they not bring back Pierce Brosnan, it didn't even have the decency to bring back Jeff Fahey to play Jobe - although Matt Frewer isn't a bad actor otherwise. But the rest of the movie seems to be a series of randomly strung-together special effects.So anyway, if you watch the first one, you'll have seen all that you need to; there's no reason to waste your money on this one.