Johnny Mnemonic

Plot

In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.

About Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk action film directed by Robert Longo in his feature directorial debut, adapted by William Gibson from his 1981 short story. It stars Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T and Dina Meyer, and features Denis Akiyama, Udo Kier, Henry Rollins, and Barbara Sukowa in supporting roles. The film, set in 2021, portrays a dystopian future racked by a tech-induced plague, awash with conspiracies, and dominated by megacorporations and organized crime. The story follows Johnny (Reeves), a data courier with an overloaded brain implant designed to securely store confidential information. The head of a yakuza-affiliated megacorporation (Kitano) attempts to suppress the data. The film was a Canadian and American co-production, filmed in Toronto and Montreal. The project was difficult for Gibson and Longo. After they struggled for years to finance a low-budget adaptation of Gibson's story, Sony greenlit Johnny Mnemonic with a $26 million budget. When Reeves' previous film, Speed, unexpectedly became a major hit, Sony attempted to retool Johnny Mnemonic as a blockbuster. Longo experienced extensive creative differences with the studio, who forced casting choices and script rewrites on him. The film was ultimately recut without Longo's involvement, resulting in a version that he felt did not reflect his artistic vision. Described by Longo and…

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