Johnny Mnemonic (film)

Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 CanadianAmerican cyberpunk action thriller film directed by Robert Longo in his directorial debut. The film stars Keanu Reeves and Dolph Lundgren. The film is based on the story of the same name by William Gibson. Keanu Reeves plays the title character, a man with a cybernetic brain implant designed to store information. The film portrays Gibsons dystopian view of the future with the world dominated by megacorporations and with strong East Asian influences. This was Dolph Lundgrens last theatrical release film until 2010s The Expendables.

In 2021, Johnny is a mnemonic courier with a data storage device implanted in his brain, allowing him to discreetly carry information too sensitive to transfer across the Net, the virtualreality equivalent of the Internet. While lucrative, the implant has cost Johnny his childhood memories, and he seeks to have the implant removed to regain his memories back his handler, Ralfi assigns him one more job that would cover the costs of the operation which are extremely expensive, sending Johnny to Beijing to deliver the latest information.At the designated place, he finds a group of frantic scientists who have the data he is to carry, but it far exceeds Johnnys storage capacity of 80 GB, even with the use of compression folders to decrease the size of the information, and if he tries to upload the data in, the remaining amount of data will be uploaded directly in his brain, causing severe psychological damage and potentially, death. Johnny accepts anyway, in need of the money. After uploading their data, the group is massacred by Yakuza, but Johnny manages to escape with a portion of the encryption password. ........

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