A few thoughts: A fairly muddled and generic sci/fi action thriller about people who wipe parts of their memories to be used as mules to transfer information through their brains. And the main person in the movie whose brain has been emptied in order to transfer this information is Keanu Reeves, which makes a lot of sense considering how bad his acting is here -- perhaps he deleted the part of his memory that knew how to do that. I'm not sure how much of this movie is meant to be funny, but it kind of works as an unintentional comedy at times thanks to this acting. The real highlights, though, are Dolph Lundgren and Udo Kier. Dolph plays a deeply religious assassin, and Udo as a piece of slime trying to get his hands on precious, valuable information. It's just a shame so much emphasis is placed on Keanu, who just doesn't seem to know how to make this material work. I like the guy, but he is an abominably bad actor. It's an average script and the action is fairly well-handled, but it doesn't do anything great. Just passable at best. Slightly worse than that, though.
People who like bad movies but don't think the things they like are bad. I would say you know who you are, but I don't think you do.
My grade: D+
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